Privacy and Interoperability Challenges Could Limit the Benefits of Education Technology

Katharina Ley Best, John F. Pane

Expert InsightsPublished Oct 2, 2018

The expansion of education technology is transforming the learning environment in classrooms, schools, school systems, online, and at home. The rise of education technology brings with it an increased opportunity for the collection and application of data, which are valuable resources for educators, schools, policymakers, researchers, and software developers. RAND researchers examine some of the possible implications of growing data collection and availability related to education technology. Specifically, this Perspective discusses potential data infrastructure challenges that could limit data usefulness, consider data privacy implications in an education technology context, and review privacy principles that could help educators and policymakers evaluate the changing education data privacy landscape in anticipation of potential future changes to regulations and best practices.

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Best, Katharina Ley and John F. Pane, Privacy and Interoperability Challenges Could Limit the Benefits of Education Technology, RAND Corporation, PE-313-RC, October 2018. As of September 12, 2024: https://www.rand.org/pubs/perspectives/PE313.html
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Best, Katharina Ley and John F. Pane, Privacy and Interoperability Challenges Could Limit the Benefits of Education Technology. Santa Monica, CA: RAND Corporation, 2018. https://www.rand.org/pubs/perspectives/PE313.html.
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