Hack Education

SEPTEMBER 30, 2016

Via The Wall Street Journal : “The federal government is pumping $245 million into the creation and expansion of public charter schools across the nation with hopes of helping students in low-income communities.” ” Via the Data Quality Campaign : “ Student Data Privacy Legislation : A Summary of 2016 State Legislation.”

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MAY 18, 2018

Via EdScoop : “ Google adds new terms to comply with Connecticut student data privacy laws.” ” Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”). Via The Blade : “School that took ECOT students wants poor scores ignored.” ” Via The New York Times : “ L.G.B.T.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 16, 2016

I’ll look more closely at discrimination by design – in software and in algorithms – in the final article in this series.) Furthermore, at launch, Pokémon Go demanded users sign over a great deal of personal data and grant permissions to the app that, for a time , gave it access to a user’s entire Google account.

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JULY 13, 2018

” 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.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 30, 2019

It works well, that is, if you disregard student data privacy and security. Or the company will have to start charging for the software. The End of Library" Stories (and the Software that Seems to Support That). It works well too for teachers wanting to bypass the procurement bureaucracy. And “free” doesn’t last.

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APRIL 27, 2018

.’” 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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MAY 27, 2016

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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