Educational Technology

December 3, 2014

Private companies want to scoop up your child’s data enrolled in MOOCs

Filed under: Educational Technology — admin @ 12:30 am

By CAITLIN EMMA, Politico

Massive open online courses, first envisioned as a way to democratize higher education, have made their way into high schools, but Washington is powerless to stop the flood of personal data about teenage students from flowing to private companies, thanks to loopholes in federal privacy laws. But when middle and high school students participate in classes with names like “Mars: The Next Frontier” or “The Road to Selective College Admissions,” they may be unwittingly transmitting into private hands a torrent of data about their academic strengths and weaknesses, their learning styles and thought processes — even the way they approach challenges. They may also be handing over birth dates, addresses and even drivers license information.

http://www.politico.com/story/2014/11/online-education-run-amok-113208.html

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