Gary Natriello – Page 15

Everybody Sweeps the Shed

September 8, 2020 Gary Natriello 0

New Zealand’s legendary rugby team, the All Blacks, may be best known for the Haka with which they begin every match, but there are other traditions connected to their extraordinary success. One such tradition that […]

More on UK Exam Adjustments

September 8, 2020 Gary Natriello 0

If you have been following the controversy over the automated adjustment of exam grades in the UK in this year of the pandemic, (see Algorithm Penalizes Students from Poorer Regions), you will be interested in […]

Little Linzers

September 6, 2020 Gary Natriello 0

Little Linzers

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Who Owns Your Teaching?

August 21, 2020 Gary Natriello 0

Back at the turn of the century during an earlier period of interest in delivering courses online, some universities tried to claim ownership of materials developed by faculty for their teaching. A number of IP […]

Algorithm Penalizes Students in Poorer Regions

August 13, 2020 Gary Natriello 0

An algorithm used to create exam results for students in Scotland who missed the exams because of the pandemic unfairly penalizes students from poorer areas. The algorithm adjusts teachers’ estimates based on the prior performance […]

Tweaking College Admissions

August 8, 2020 Gary Natriello 0

One of the largest and most enduring sets of assessment practices and rituals is the set of policies regarding college admissions. Challenging and changing these policies is never easy because such moves inevitably upset those […]

Making Remote Collaboration Work

July 30, 2020 Gary Natriello 0

Writing in Entrepreneur, Ibn Masood discusses some dilemmas of working as a team when members are remote. The challenges of remote work are generally known, but the suggestions for addressing them are specific, feasible, and […]

Competitive Intelligence In the Wild

July 30, 2020 Gary Natriello 0

An article by Chris Smith explains how Google is using data it gathers from android phones to examine the use of apps and develop its own versions to compete. While Google claims that the data […]

Cheating Online – Policing and Pedagogical Responses

July 27, 2020 Gary Natriello 0

Writing in Inside Higher Education, Doug Lederman discusses the current concern about the level of student cheating in online courses, particularly those hastily moved online in the spring of 2020 due to the pandemic. Two […]

FBI Use of Facial Recognition Sparks ACLU Response

July 22, 2020 Gary Natriello 0

In an article for the ACLU, director Kade Crockford explains the use of facial recognition data (as well as data on our irises, walking patterns, and voices) by the FBI. Apparently, the use of this […]