BLEND-ONLINE : Call for Chapter Proposals– Privacy and Remote Learning
Digital Scholarship Initiatives at Middle Tennessee State University invites you to propose a chapter for our forthcoming book.
Working book title: Privacy and Safety in Remote Learning Environments
Proposal submission deadline: January 21, 2022
Interdisciplinary perspectives are highly encouraged
Topics may include but are not limited to:
- Privacy policies of 3rd party EdTech platforms (Google Classroom, Microsoft Teams, Schoology, etc)
- Parental “spying” and classroom privacy
- Family privacy and synchronous online schooling
- Online harassment among students (private chats, doxing, social media, etc)
- Cameras in student private spaces
- Surveillance of student online activities
- Exam proctoring software and privacy concerns
- Personally Identifiable Information in online learning systems and susceptibility to cybercriminals
- Privacy, storage, and deletion policies for recordings and data
- Handling data removal requests from students
- Appointing a privacy expert in schools, universities, or districts
- How and why to perform security/privacy audits
- Student attitudes about online privacy
- Instructor privacy/safety concerns
- Libraries: privacy policies of ebook platforms
- Libraries: online reference services and transcripts
- Identity authentication best practices
- Learning analytics and “big data” in higher education
More details, timelines, and submission instructions are available at dsi.mtsu.edu/cfpBook2022
Graphene Nanoribbon Breakthrough Could Lead to High-Speed, Low-Power Nanoscale Data Storage
Reference: “Spin splitting of dopant edge state in magnetic zigzag graphene nanoribbons” by Raymond E. Blackwell, Fangzhou Zhao, Erin Brooks, Junmian Zhu, Ilya Piskun, Shenkai Wang, Aidan Delgado, Yea-Lee Lee, Steven G. Louie and Felix R. Fischer, 22 December 2021, Nature.
DOI: 10.1038/s41586-021-04201-y
https://learn.framevr.io/post/socrates-gets-killed-in-the-metaverse
my annotations here:
https://hyp.is/go?url=https%3A%2F%2Flearn.framevr.io%2Fpost%2Fsocrates-gets-killed-in-the-metaverse%3Futm_medium%3Dsocial%26utm_source%3Dlinkedin&group=__world__
some of the implications of people spending significantly more time in immersive 3D environments that provide alternative “realities” to the physical world.
7 Tips For More Engaging, Top Performing Instagram Carousel Posts
https://www.searchenginejournal.com/instagram-carousel-tips/429880
Studies have shown that carousels are the most engaging type of post on the platform.
One of the most effective techniques: know your audience and talk directly to them as individuals.
you’re leading with the most compelling information or image for the reader, and think about “what’s in it for them” throughout the carousel.
add a visual signal in the images, like an arrow pointing to the right in all but the final image.
You want every slide to stand on its own.
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more on instagram in this IMS blog
https://blog.stcloudstate.edu/ims?s=instagram
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more on DDG in this iMS blog
https://blog.stcloudstate.edu/ims?s=duck+duck+go
a performance- or competency-based approach to education
little evidence that personalized learning improves student learning, in part because so many different approaches are used.
proficiency-based learning
Does the future of schooling look like Candy Land?
Advocates of competency-based education say they believe public opinion is also shifting their way. They point to a recent national poll showing that 74 percent of voters think the lack of personalized learning in schools is “a problem.”
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more on competency based ed in this iMS blog
https://blog.stcloudstate.edu/ims?s=competency+based