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School Work and Surveillance

Hack Education

Ed-tech is not a tool that exists only in the service of improving teaching and learning, although that's very much how it gets talked about. The company was founded in 1998 by UC Berkeley doctoral students who were concerned about cheating in the science classes they taught. The company works both ends of the plagiarism market.

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We need to rethink university IT Services

Mark Smithers

There is little room for experimenting with tools beyond the VLE. At my university it has got to the stage that I only use my own personal laptop connected to wifi network. Furthermore, they have a pre-conceived idea of what a university is or does and refuse to learn. The issue of control has got completely out of hand.

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