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 […]
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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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
See what happened when an NYU professor streamed his class about Twitch on Twitch. NYU Game Center professor Robert Yang reports on his experience teaching a class using Twitch. There are a number of interesting […]
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