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Funds For Learning Launches Survey: Shaping the Future of Connectivity

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The survey enables applicants to provide confidential feedback about essential aspects of the federal E-rate program, which can help shape its future direction. E-rate stakeholders are encouraged to participate in the 2024 survey to influence the program’s direction and advocate for their needs.

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Nureva achieves ISO/IEC 27001 certification for its Information Security Management System

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It establishes a path to preserving the confidentiality, integrity and availability of the business information of the company’s customers and other stakeholders. ISO 27001 certification is a powerful way to build trust in Nureva’s information security management systems and protect valuable data and information assets.

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How to find an LMS that supports student privacy and data security

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While participating in one of CoSN’s working groups, I began identifying which student-data-privacy principles were really important to us as school districts and what it meant to be a district as an exemplar in that area. Our student information system (SIS), for instance, stores dates of birth, addresses, and other confidential data.

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Cybersecurity: eSN Innovation Roundtable

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Most likely, you have confidential student info in your email. During an eSchool News Innovation Roundtable with a focus on cybersecurity, moderated by eSchool News Content Director Kevin Hogan, district IT leaders explored the challenging and ever-evolving topic of K-12 cybersecurity. It’s our responsibility.

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5 Internet Safety Tips for Teachers

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This could expose confidential student data, compromise work communications, and even jeopardize the safety of those around you. Phishing Attacks Fraudsters frequently use misleading emails, phone calls, SMSs, social media DMs, and other digital channels to deceive victims and extract confidential information.

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

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This creates a safer environment for research that's easier for schools and platforms to participate in, because the data is staying where it is already.” There are plenty of studies that have small sample sizes of about 50 college students, he explains, who participate as part of a psychology class. “A

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When Colleges Sign ‘Inclusive Access’ Textbook Deals, Can Students and Professors Opt Out?

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Yet the contract terms for these subscription arrangements—which some publishers call “inclusive access” programs—raise questions about whether publishers and colleges pressure students into participating. That’s the conclusion of a new report from U.S.

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