As the world continues to adapt to challenges and shutdowns caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, colleges and universities are reviewing various ways to…

As workplaces and schools consider how to reopen safely, some organizations are looking to wearable technology to monitor health and activities. For example, the NBA plans on its players wearing smart rings as they anticipate starting a season at Walt Disney World. The ring can send audio alerts if players come within six feet of one another or are detected […]

Our new FAQs describe how K-12 and higher education administrators and educators can protect student privacy during the COVID-19 pandemic.

The University of Ottawa's apparent use of software that utilizes artificial intelligence to detect cheating during online exams is causing a backlash among students who say the technology is extreme and invasive.

Canvas's privacy problems.

Led by Noam Rotem and Ran Locar, vpnMentor's research team discovered a data breach belonging to the e-Learning platform OneClass.  OneClass is a remote learning platform that

A university in California previously reported to be conducting COVID-19 research has paid $1.14 million to digital scammers.

Warning Full evaluation: Applications and services with a Warning rating do not meet our recommendations for privacy and security practices. Applications and services with a Warning rating have issues narrowly focused around data use related to creating profiles that are not associated with any educational purpose, selling data, and/or using data to target advertisements.

EduSense, developed by Carnegie Mellon University researchers, is a comprehensive classroom sensing system.

Tenure-track faculty members in the United States are evaluated on their performance in both research and teaching. In spite of accusations of bias and invalidity, student evaluations of teaching have dominated teaching evaluation at U.S. universities. However, studies on the topic have tended to be limited to particular institutional and disciplinary contexts. Moreover, in spite of the idealistic assumption that research and teaching are mutually beneficial, few studies have examined the link between research performance and student evaluations of teaching. In this study, we conduct a large scale exploratory analysis of the factors associated with student evaluations of teachers, controlling for heterogeneous institutional and disciplinary contexts. We source public student evaluations of teaching from RateMyProfessor.com and information regarding career and contemporary research performance indicators from the company Academic Analytics. The factors most associated with higher student ratings were the attractiveness of the faculty and the student’s interest in the class; the factors most associated with lower student ratings were course difficulty and whether student comments mentioned an accent or a teaching assistant. Moreover, faculty tended to be rated more highly when they were young, male, White, in the Humanities, and held a rank of full professor. We observed little to no evidence of any relationship, positive or negative, between student evaluations of teaching and research performance. These results shed light on what factors relate to student evaluations of teaching across diverse contexts and contribute to the continuing discussion teaching evaluation and faculty assessment.

MSU is still investigating what was compromised during a Memorial Day breach and will notify those who might be affected.

UC Santa Cruz police utilized military surveillance equipment to surveil and police the graduate student 'wildcat' strike earlier this year.

The cost to buy an external webcam can run upwards of $100 and finding a webcam in stock is a challenge with the increase in people working and learni...

I was a guest speaker in the MA in Elearning class at Cork Institute of Technology this morning. Thanks very much to Gearóid Ó Súilleabháin for the invitation. Here's a bit of what I said...

A sudden switch to online learning reveals a slew of challenges for educators.

Group dynamics.

But the company’s attitude toward personal data is more concerning; its privacy policy does little to put naysayers at ease. It states that Examity may collect a number of personal details from students who test with it, including student names, addresses, biometric records, driver’s license numbers, and passwords. The company can use such details to analyze usage patterns and share them with third parties.