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Piazza Makes Three Significant Changes To Deal With Privacy Issues

By Phil Hill. Posted on December 21, 2016

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In this live case study in ed tech and student privacy that is unfolding before us, Piazza makes some changes in response to recent criticism of their practices.

University Responses to Piazza: Some good, some bad, some web site changes

By Phil Hill. Posted on November 21, 2016

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After our reporting from Nov 10 on “Popular Discussion Platform Piazza Getting Pushback For Selling Student Data”, I was invited by Piazza CEO Pooja Sankar to visit the Piazza offices. During my visit, we had an open conversation where I got to meet pretty much the entire staff and have a direct conversation with Sankar […]

Piazza Response To Blog Post On Student Privacy

By Phil Hill. Posted on November 13, 2016

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Based on Thursday’s blog post “Popular Discussion Platform Piazza Getting Pushback For Selling Student Data”, Piazza’s CEO Pooja Sankar invited me to meet at their offices Friday afternoon. Given the nature of Thursday’s post, I offered to publish any statement that Piazza had in response here at e-Literate, an offer they accepted. I will defer further […]

Popular Discussion Platform Piazza Getting Pushback For Selling Student Data

By Phil Hill. Posted on November 10, 2016

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Update– Please see follow-on posts addressing changes since this post: Nov 13, 2016: “Piazza Response To Blog Post On Student Privacy” Nov 21, 2016: “University Responses to Piazza: Some good, some bad, some web site changes” Dec 21, 2016: “Piazza Makes Three Significant Changes To Deal With Privacy Issues” Piazza is a collaborative question-and-answer platform […]

Instructure Dodges A Data Bullet

By Phil Hill. Posted on November 4, 2015

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Last week’s EDUCAUSE conference was relatively news free, which is actually a good thing as overall ed tech hype levels have come down. Near the end of the conference, however, I heard from three different sources about a growing backlash against Instructure for their developing plans for Canvas Data and real-time events. “They’re Blackboarding us”, […]

Now UC Berkeley and Charles Sturt University Leave Sakai OAE

By Phil Hill. Posted on September 19, 2012

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Just three months ago, the University of Michigan and Indiana University made a joint decision to “pause investment” in the Sakai OAE project. The latest news is that the University of California Berkeley and Charles Sturt University (in Australia) have also decided to leave the Sakai OAE project. The only schools remaining as part of […]
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