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MOOCs and Intellectual Property: Ownership and Use Rights
Massively Open Online Courses (MOOCs) have become the buzzword these days. Besides the interest and the hype associated with MOOCs, campuses are having serious discussions about the opportunities and challenges that these online courses pose. The EDUCAUSE Executive Briefing, What Campus Leaders Need to Know About MOOCs, highlights a number of key issues for colleges and universities to understand about MOOCs,...
ED CPO on Privacy, Emerging Technologies, and New Uses of Data
When I first accepted the position as ED’s Chief Privacy Officer the workload revolved heavily around privacy issues in the K-12 context, especially issues relating the Family Educational Rights Privacy Act (FERPA) and its applicability to State Longitudinal Databases. Recently our office is spending an increasing amount of time providing guidance in the higher ed arena. Colleges, universities, and other postsecondary institutions often have research agendas that involve data; they...
A Few Things about E-FERPA
Probably no statute affects higher education more, but is understood less, than the Family Educational and Privacy Rights Act, or “FERPA,” the primary federal law that regulates how we handle our records about our students. And that is no doubt especially true when it comes to electronic records (which for some reason seem to baffle us in almost every context). Data Privacy Month seems a good time to clear up some of the most common misunderstandings:
1. FERPA makes...
The State of the Net is Strong
The Annual State of the Net Conference is held every January in Washington, D.C. Organized by the Congressional Internet Caucus Advisory Committee, it brings together policymakers and advocates, including EDUCAUSE Policy staff, to highlight the most pressing Internet and technology policy issues in the year ahead. While there is...
Demystifying the Cloud for Policymakers
Adopters of cloud technologies recognize that it requires business decisions, risk management, and policy choices. At the Annual State of the Net Conference, EDUCAUSE Policy attempted to demystify the cloud for policy makers.
Sourcing IT (business decision)
Before we arrive at the conclusion that the best course of action is to outsource IT services to the cloud, we have to start with a more fundamental range of...
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