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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 […]

Teaching with Twitch – The Value of Terrible Ideas

July 12, 2020 Gary Natriello 0

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 […]

Chewy Sugar Cookies

July 4, 2020 Gary Natriello 0

Chewy Sugar Cookies

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Enhancing Production for Online Communication

July 4, 2020 Gary Natriello 0

Developing a more robust set of tools for online communication can be an important element in transitioning to fully digital operations. With more and more interaction mediated by audio video communication systems such as Zoom, […]

A Dozen Will Do It – Class Size and Online Teaching

July 3, 2020 Gary Natriello 0

Derek Newton reports on a study by Lawrence Tomei and Douglas Nelson in which they consider the maximum size of online, hybrid, and on campus classes if we would like them to be taught well […]