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School Work and Surveillance

Hack Education

The company was founded in 1998 by UC Berkeley doctoral students who were concerned about cheating in the science classes they taught. Is it the vast corpus of data that the company has amassed — decades of essays and theses and Wikipedia entries that it uses to assess student work? The company works both ends of the plagiarism market.

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Technology and Casey Green on campus: Future Trends Forum #3, notes and full recording

Bryan Alexander

I asked if the mobile world offers a partial way to address inequality of access, since we know poorer Americans, plus blacks and hispanics, tend to use mobile devices more often and for more purposes than wealthy and white people. We then dove into the learning management system ( LMS in the US; VLE in Europe ).

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We need to rethink university IT Services

Mark Smithers

There is little room for experimenting with tools beyond the VLE. Another option that is starting to be used at some universities is the use of a drop in location that operates like an Apple Genius bar where people can come and immediate support for mobile devices. Innovations and going beyond the VLE. Corporate Refugees.

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