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Pushback Is Growing Against Automated Proctoring Services. But So Is Their Use

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There are plenty of things students complain about, but no other educational technology has drawn as much organized protest in recent months. Ethics and Surveillance Ironically, Olsen says he created Proctorio because he felt that the remote proctoring services employing humans were too creepy and invasive.

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This $90M Education Research Project Is Banking on Data Privacy to Drive Insights

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With digital education platforms generating data on how millions of students are learning, they are also sitting on veritable information gold mines for researchers who are trying to improve education.

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As LinkedIn Learning Subsumes Lynda.com, Library Groups Raise Privacy Concerns

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The library groups argue that by requiring users to create LinkedIn accounts to watch Lynda videos, the company is going from following best practices about privacy and identity protection to potentially asking libraries to violate a range of ethics codes they have pledged to uphold.

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Education and Artificial Intelligence: Navigating the Path to Transformation

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Joe Pringle, business development leader for artificial intelligence and machine learning at AWS, underscores the need for a meticulous and cautious approach to the use of AI in education. . Department of Education's Office of Educational Technology released an AI report: Artificial Intelligence and the Future of Teaching and Learning.

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AI Guidelines for K-12 Aim to Bring Order to the ‘Wild West’

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. — Mark Smith The AI guidance document urges educators to always assume that, unless the company that owns a generative AI tool has an agreement with their school district, the data they’re inputting is going to be made available to the public. So just stop and think.”

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This Company Wants to Gather Student Brainwave Data to Measure ‘Engagement’

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For instance, Bill Fitzgerald, director of privacy review programs at Common Sense Media, points out that BrainCo does not have any publicly-available privacy statement, ethical review or any information about how students’ data will be stored or used. Is there confidentiality there?

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