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 libraries & their involvement (complicity) in learning analytics efforts on higher education campuses. But this isn't new. Academic librarians have been… Continue reading Libraries & learning analytics: A brief history.
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Have we confused surveillance with assessment of student learning?
Somehow I had been blissfully unaware of Respondus Lockdown Browser until last week, when several students came to the library asking if we had this software available on our computers. If you’re not familiar with this product, Respondus is one of several LMS-integrated cheating-prevention tools. In simple terms, it shuts down a student’s Internet browser… Continue reading Have we confused surveillance with assessment of student learning?
