What data can we collect about our students – the answer is: A LOT of data.
The real questions are: how much should we collect? Why we should collect it? What are expectations of privacy?
These questions aren’t new – we’ve been asking them about customers, employees, and Internet traffic – in fact, the term Surveillance Capitalism is well established and privacy issues are in many discussions.
My most recent Podcast on The Learning Mindset discusses the idea of Surveillance Education – Data and Students, Data about students.