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Direct linkFernandez, Peter – Community & Junior College Libraries, 2010
Librarians face many challenges when dealing with issues of privacy within the mediated space of social networking sites. Conceptually, social networking sites differ from libraries on privacy as a value. Research about Generation Y students, the primary clientele of undergraduate libraries, can inform librarians' relationship to this important…
Descriptors: Privacy, Social Networks, College Libraries, Library Policy
Fargas-Malet, Montserrat; McSherry, Dominic; Larkin, Emma; Robinson, Clive – Journal of Early Childhood Research, 2010
In the past few decades, a growing body of literature examining children's perspectives on their own lives has developed within a variety of disciplines, such as sociology, psychology, anthropology and geography. This article provides a brief up-to-date examination of methodological and ethical issues that researchers may need to consider when…
Descriptors: Research Methodology, Anthropology, Researchers, Children
Neely, Laura Sue Perry – ProQuest LLC, 2011
Social networking sites like Facebook continue to gain popularity among all segments of the population (boyd & Ellison, 2007; Madden & Smith, 2010). Public school employees all over the country are finding themselves facing disciplinary action due to participation in this fast growing fad. The problem is that there is a lack of clarity in the…
Descriptors: Public Schools, Social Networks, Web Sites, Web 2.0 Technologies
Download full textWinnick, Steve; Coleman, Art; Palmer, Scott; Lipper, Kate; Neiditz, Jon – Data Quality Campaign, 2011
This legal and policy guidance provides a summary framework for state policymakers as they work to use longitudinal data to improve student achievement while also protecting the privacy and security of individual student records. Summarizing relevant federal privacy and security laws, with a focus on the Family Educational Records and Privacy Act…
Descriptors: Educational Policy, Educational Improvement, Academic Achievement, Privacy
Bienkowski, Marie; Gerard, Sarah Nixon; Rubin, Shawn; Sanford, Cathy; Borrelli-Murray, Dana; Driscoll, Tom; Arora, Jessie; Hruska, Mike; Beck, Katie; Murray, Thomas; Hoekstra, Jason; Gannes, Stuart; Metz, Edward; Midgley, Steve; Castilla, Stephanie; Tomassini, Jason; Madda, Mary Jo; Chase, Zac; Martin, Erik; Noel, Marcus; Styles, Kathleen – Office of Educational Technology, US Department of Education, 2015
Opportunities abound for software designers and developers to create impactful tools for teachers, school leaders, students, and their families. This guide for developers, startups, and entrepreneurs addresses key questions about the education ecosystem and highlights critical needs and opportunities to develop digital tools and apps for learning.…
Descriptors: Computer Software, Design, Technology Uses in Education, Educational Technology
Kadushin, Charles – Oxford University Press, 2012
Despite the swift spread of social network concepts and their applications and the rising use of network analysis in social science, there is no book that provides a thorough general introduction for the serious reader. "Understanding Social Networks" fills that gap by explaining the big ideas that underlie the social network phenomenon.…
Descriptors: Social Networks, Network Analysis, Social Science Research, Best Practices
Warren, Constancia; Rennie-Hill, Leslie; Pfeiffer, Jay Jordon – US Department of Education, 2012
The emergence of longitudinal data systems over the past decade has provided exciting opportunities to better understand students' educational trajectories over time and institutions. The stark reality for today's high school students is that some form of postsecondary education is a necessary ticket of entry to a secure economic future. This…
Descriptors: Data Use, Postsecondary Education, College Readiness, Access to Education
Selingo, Jeff – Chronicle of Higher Education, 2012
A college's graduation rate is such a basic consumer fact for would-be students these days that it's difficult to imagine that the federal government didn't even collect the information as recently as the early 1990s. If not for two former Olympic basketball players who made their way to Congress and wanted college athletes to know about their…
Descriptors: Student Records, Nontraditional Students, College Presidents, Private Colleges
Dawes, Sharon S. – Government Information Quarterly, 2009
Research into relationships among government, society and technology has grown substantially over the past 30 years. However, most research and most advances in practice address narrowly defined categories of concern such as government organization, citizen services, interoperability, or personal privacy. By contrast, the future presents complex…
Descriptors: Information Management, Privacy, Governance, Technological Advancement
Nathan, Lisa P.; MacGougan, Alice; Shaffer, Elizabeth – Journal of Education for Library and Information Science, 2014
Social networking tools offer opportunities for innovative, participative pedagogical practice within traditional institutional frameworks. However, tensions continue to develop within this space: between creativity and security, personal and professional identity, privacy and openness. We argue that iSchools are uniquely positioned to create…
Descriptors: Social Networks, School Policy, Educational Technology, Online Courses
Sumuer, Evren; Esfer, Sezin; Yildirim, Soner – Educational Studies, 2014
This study investigated K12 teachers' Facebook usage habits, intensity, self-disclosure, privacy settings and activities. A multi-method design was employed by collecting quantitative data from 616 teachers with a Facebook account using an online questionnaire and qualitative data from 32 teachers using online open-ended questions. The results of…
Descriptors: Self Disclosure (Individuals), Use Studies, Teacher Behavior, Social Networks
Data Quality Campaign, 2011
The education sector is beginning to embrace a culture that values, demands and uses data to support improved decisionmaking at every level--in classrooms, at kitchen tables and in state capitols. This shift is due in large part to state policymakers' leadership over the last six years in building statewide longitudinal data systems that collect…
Descriptors: Information Security, Privacy, Student Records, Confidential Records
Roper, Larry D. – Journal of College and Character, 2011
Campus safety and the role of college and university officials relative to safety are important topics on the agendas of political leaders at the state and national levels. Student affairs leaders must consider how to contribute in a meaningful way to these very important conversations. (Contains 1 footnote.)
Descriptors: Higher Education, Campuses, School Safety, School Role
Lewinson, Terri – Journal of Ethnographic & Qualitative Research, 2010
Some families live in extended-stay hotels as a solution after housing displacement. This temporary accommodation provides a furnished home environment with resources such as a kitchenette, bed, heating/air conditioning, and room services with one payment that can be made weekly or monthly without a credit check or rent deposit. Despite these…
Descriptors: Homeless People, Privacy, Coping, Family Environment
Bachman, Dale J.; Brown, Ezra A.; Norton, Anderson H. – Mathematics Teacher, 2010
Cryptography is the science of hidden or secret writing. More generally, cryptography refers to the science of safeguarding information. Cryptography allows people to use a public medium such as the Internet to transmit private information securely, thus enabling a whole range of conveniences, from online shopping to personally printed movie…
Descriptors: Intellectual Property, Privacy, Computer Security, Internet
