Students at the Open University are going to have their progress monitored by software to spot if they need any extra support. BBC has the story.
Category: Youth & Schools
FL: Orange County schools monitor students’ social media posts
Oh, FFS. Seriously. Amanda Ober reports: Controversy surrounds the school district’s decision to monitor students’ and teachers’ social media posts. Orange County Public Schools has started monitoring students’ and teachers’ social media posts with a new software program called “Snaptrends.” It allows the school district to search thousands of posts on sites like Twitter and…
Universities are using data analytics to assess students mental health and much more
Joe Cadillic has a blog post about student privacy that touches on a lot of concerns about what universities are doing. While I’ve covered some of the situations and articles he writes about, he really does a good job of pulling them together in one post to show how pervasive the tracking/data analytics problem is becoming. Read his post…
Trusting parents to make smart choices on student data
Jules Polonetsky and Brenda Leong write: … One key issue has emerged as a point of contention among many of the proposed bills. Should parents have the right to tell a company holding their child’s data to enable additional services, such as sending homework information to a tutoring service or sending a transcript to a…