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The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade

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It works well, that is, if you disregard student data privacy and security. In 2011, Barber went to work for Pearson as its Chief Education Advisor, continuing his advocacy for competition, data collection, measurements, and standards-based reforms. MOOCs are, no surprise, their own entry on this long list of awfulness.

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Hack Education Weekly News

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Online Education (The Once and Future “MOOC”). MOOCs for credit ! FutureLearn announced that two UK universities – the University of Leeds and the Open University – will offer MOOCs that will be accepted for college credit. For more on MOOCs for credit, see the “MOOCs” section above.

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Hack Education Weekly News

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Online Education and the Once and Future “MOOC” These headlines just kill me. ” More MOOC data in the “research” section below. Via Edsurge : “New Company Says by Using Its Service, Students Can Test Classroom Tech Before Arriving on Campus.” “When Is The U.S.

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Hack Education Weekly News

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Via Education Week : “ Mississippi Attorney General Sues Google Over Student-Data Privacy.” ” There’s more MOOC-related research in the research section below. Mindwire Consulting’s Phil Hill on layoffs at the LMS Schoology. ” “Does Your School Arrest Students?

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Hack Education Weekly News

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” Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”). Indeed, Edutechnica, which also tracks LMS data, responds with their own numbers and says that Blackboard still has about two hundred more installations than Canvas and about a million more students using the software. . Doesn’t that seem small?

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Education Technology and Data Insecurity

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Instructure, for example, undertook its fifth annual security audit this year to identify possible vulnerabilities in its LMS Canvas. ” Unfortunately, too often education technology companies and educators are willing to trade security and privacy for the sake of convenience in the classroom.

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