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Education Technology and Data Insecurity

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Education’s Obsession with Data. Why collect data? “Accountability rhetoric echoes a broader turn toward data-driven decision-making and resource allocation across sectors. According to the Data Quality Campaign , “Student data privacy was a priority issue in state legislatures in 2016.”

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Hack Education Weekly News

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’” Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”). ” Via Inside Higher Ed : “The University of Phoenix ’s online enrollment plummets while Western Governors and Southern New Hampshire near 100,000 students as they vie to rule the roost.” Data, Surveillance, and Information Security.

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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. Students recorded fellow students. Students recorded their teachers. They recorded school resource officers. MOOCs are, no surprise, their own entry on this long list of awfulness. And “free” doesn’t last.

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