LearnerPrivacy.org

Discuss issues around learner data privacy in education and educational technology. Cover historical mistakes that have been made, current risks to student educational activity data and ways educational institutions can better protect student data going forward.

Podcasting since 2020 • 8 episodes

LearnerPrivacy.org

Latest Episodes

Welcome to LearnerPrivacy.org #001

I look at the last 20 years of progress in educational technology and while have made great strides in improving interoperability, we have moved from having each campus 100% maintaining possession their learner's private data to the point where...

May 14, 2020 • Season 1 • Episode 1 • 10:24

GDPR - The Flaws and Foibles of Well-Intentioned Privacy Policy #004

In this episode, we look at the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). Europe has a long history of thinking more deeply and formally about privacy than the US. We start by looking at the 1995 Data Protection Directive - whi...

July 12, 2020 • Season 1 • Episode 4 • 21:12

Surveillance #006

In this episode we look at how various surveillance technologies end up recording information about us. We look at how we invite these technologies into our lives and the short and long term impacts of these technologies. We look at...

November 02, 2020 • Season 1 • Episode 6 • 16:45

FERPA - The Privacy Fig Leaf #002

In this episode we look at FERPA in the context of other privacy frameworks and laws like FOIA, HIPAA, and HITech. We compare FERPA to medical privacy records and look at how campuses need to move beyond FERPA to examine the real issues ...

June 12, 2020 • 11:22

Getting Lost on the way to the Cloud #003

In this episode, we look at why higher education moved from self-hosted learning systems to completely outsourced systems between 2010 and 2020. We look at some of the problems of self-hosted LMS systems and how higher education IT was n...

June 20, 2020 • 15:06

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