Hack Education

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.” Robots and Other Education Science Fiction.

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Hack Education

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. Doesn’t that seem small?

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Education Khan Academy Blackboard Report 43

Hack Education

APRIL 27, 2018

Via Chalkbeat : “Robotics is bringing Betsy DeVos to Detroit for the first time as education secretary.” ” (“…She’s unlikely to encounter local students when she’s there.”). ’” Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”). National) Education Politics.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 30, 2019

That being said, if you’re using a piece of technology that’s free, it’s likely that your personal data is being sold to advertisers or at the very least hoarded as a potential asset (and used, for example, to develop some sort of feature or algorithm). It works well, that is, if you disregard student data privacy and security.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 1, 2017

.” That’s the CFPB , whose new leader is also addressed in this story from NPR : “What The Upheaval At A Federal Consumer Watchdog Could Mean For Students.” House Hearing on Algorithms & Big Data : 5 Takeaways for Schools.” ” More MOOC data in the “research” section below.

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Knewton Education Company MOOC 46

Hack Education

JUNE 8, 2018

Via Inside Higher Ed : “The number of career colleges and the number of credentials they award have dropped by roughly 20 percent in the last four years, new data from the U.S. ” Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”). ” Robots and Other Education Science Fiction.

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Hack Education

JANUARY 26, 2017

.” I tweeted that the DACA database is one of the most important issues in ed-tech right now, and if you’re an ed-tech entrepreneur who says “nobody in ed-tech tracks immigration data,” you need to GTFO. Via Education Week : “ Mississippi Attorney General Sues Google Over Student-Data Privacy.”

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