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Creating a Healthy Digital Environment for 21st Century Learners
May 12, 2017Marsali Hancock and Robert DillonLearn MoreThis case study offers the example of the Ventura County Office of Education and how they prioritized protecting personally identifiable information, passwords…
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Strategies for Handling ‘Opt-Out’
May 12, 2017Learn MoreIn response to data security concerns, many states are considering ways to allow individuals to remove their personal information from certain statewide data c…
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2016 Forum Guide to Education Data Privacy
May 12, 2017Learn MoreThe Forum Guide to Education Data Privacy was developed as a resource for state and local education agencies (SEAs and LEAs) to use in assisting school staff i…
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Forum Guide to Supporting Data Access for Researchers: An SEA Perspective
May 12, 2017Learn MoreThe primary audiences for this document are data policymakers and managers in SEAs who are generally responsible for managing and responding to requests for da…
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Building a Student-Level Data System
May 12, 2017Ben MillerLearn MoreThis report examines a provision added to the Higher Education Act in 2008 which prohibits the Department of Education from creating a new database of informat…
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Applications of Student Data in Higher Education Issues and Ethical Considerations
May 12, 2017Sharon SladeLearn MoreThis report focuses on the applications strand which sought to yield further insight into: the main areas of focus and most promising types of applications for…
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Managing Data Risk in Student Success Systems
May 12, 2017Learn MoreStudent success has come into sharp focus for higher education. New models have emerged in response to outcome-based funding at the state level and a completio…
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Student Privacy Self-Management: Implications For Learning Analytics
May 12, 2017Paul Prinsloo and Sharon SladeLearn MoreThis paper explores issues around consent and the seemingly simple choice to allow students to opt-in or opt-out of having their data tracked. We consider how …
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Understanding Information Security and Privacy in Postsecondary Education Data Systems
May 12, 2017Joanna Lyn GramaLearn MoreThis paper outlines the information security and privacy challenges that exist within the national postsecondary education data infrastructure. It also introdu…
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Just in Time Research: Data Breaches in Higher Education
May 12, 2017Learn MoreThis “Just in Time” research is in response to recent discussions on the EDUCAUSE Higher Education Information Security Council (HEISC) discussion list about d…
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Balancing Student Privacy, Campus Security, and Public Safety: Issues for Campus Leaders
May 11, 2017Lesley McBainLearn MoreThe purpose of this paper is twofold: to provide background information on student privacy and campus security, and to review best practices that college and u…
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The Promise and Peril of Predictive Analytics in Higher Education
May 11, 2017Manuela Ekowo and Iris PalmerLearn MoreIn 'The Promise and Peril of Predictive Analytics in Higher Education: A Landscape Analysis,' authors Manuela Ekowo and Iris Palmer describe how predictive ana…
