Helping Students Create and Protect Their Online Identities

What we do on the internet follows us right into the physical world. Likewise, what we do in public in the physical world can easily end up on the internet. We’re only a tweet, a public action, or a live mic away from notoriety. Sometimes this can be a great thing. Other times, not so…

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exploring the ethics of “learning analytics” in higher ed

As our Digital Education Leadership cohort considered ethical questions associated with learning technology, as well as what ethical standards are important to us professionally, I returned to Kant’s “Formula of Humanity” which states that we should always treat a person as an end in themselves, and never as a means to an end (Keirsten, 2019)….

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swimming in subnautica

By day I’m an attorney/professor/administrator/mediator/PhD student, but by night I’m an avid video gamer. I have been since Santa gifted me with my first NES back in the 1980s. There are plenty of arguments to make about the benefits of video games, such as improvements in making quick decisions (Green et al. 2010), stress relief…

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