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.
Episodes
8 episodes
An Optimistic Podcast About Learner Privacy #008
In this episode, we break character and instead of being dark and foreboding - Dr. Chuck talks about an area of learner privacy that he is happy about. You will probably be surprised what product is on his "nice list". Through a co...
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8:39
Billionaires and LMS's #007
In this episode we explore a fictional scenario where an activist billionaire purchases a proprietary cloud hosted LMS vendor to build their own on-line university.
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8:01
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...
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Season 1
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Episode 6
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16:45
Scary Campfire Story about Privacy #005
In this fictional campfire story, we take a look at a community college English teacher and their students and how they get caught up in events happening in society. They end up being investigated by law enforcement out of an abundance of...
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12:07
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...
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Season 1
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Episode 4
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21:12
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...
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15:06
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 ...
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11:22
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...
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Season 1
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Episode 1
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