Critics say personalized learning isn't supported by evidence, leads to bad teaching, and depends on data-mining students. What do educators and policymakers need to know?

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BrainCo headbands will collect biometric brainwave data on over 1 million students to create “the world’s biggest brainwave database.” But there’s no privacy policy.

Libraries have long counted up the books on their shelves to show their value. That meant Harvard University’s library (with 18.9-million books) was ...

March 5, 2018 — Revised and updated from the original post on November 10, 2017.   A slide deck from EDUCAUSE made the rounds on Twitter last week, with many folks expressing shock about libr…

Ben Williamson [Paper prepared for the Annual Ethnography Symposium, University of Manchester, 30 August-1 September 2017, with the full title ‘The infrastructure of fast psycho-policy: psych…

Curtin University has teamed with Hitachi to create a “data-gathering laboratory” that it hopes will improve the student experience.

Digital technologies used in schools are increasingly being harnessed to amplify corporate marketing and profit-making and extend the reach of commercializing activities into every aspect of students’ school lives. In addition to the long-standing goal of providing brand exposure, marketing through education technology now routinely engages students in activities that facilitate the collection of valuable personal data and that socialize students to accept relentless monitoring and surveillance as normal. This year’s 19th annual report on schoolhouse commercialism trends examines how technological advances, the lure of “personalization,” and lax regulation foster the collection of personal data and have overwhelmed efforts to protect children’s privacy.

The Value-Added Model has done more to confuse and oppress than to motivate.

The following highlights some anticipated emerging issues with the use of learner analytics and student data in UK higher education and how students’ unions might deal with them on their campuses

Educators and commenters who evaluate big data-driven learning environments focus on specific questions: whether automated education platforms improve learning

By: Nursyeha Yahaya, Devika Sangaram, Salihin M.A. & Aaron Tay, pp. 61-73 Abstract: The Li Ka Shing Library recently included a new section, “Heat Maps” on the library website, providing users …

The company, known mainly as a bookstore operator, scores a potentially lucrative deal with the digital education consortium Unizin that could help it make its mark in the predictive analytics market.

Edward Snowden’s revelation about the National Security Agency’s information-gathering practices alerted the public to the nefarious uses of data ...

By Alan Rubel and Kyle Jones, Published on 05/08/17