OER Privacy

Infrastructure, Data Systems, Student Data Privacy, and OER are critical to scaling personalized learning.

Educational Quote:

"The great aim of education is not knowledge but action." ~Herbert Spencer

Weekly Insights:

For schools to satisfy the demands of media-rich, adaptive online educational content, adaptive assessment, and real-time data collection that enables personalized instruction available anytime, anywhere, high-speed broadband connectivity is necessary.

For competency-based paths and individualized learning to be supported, next-generation accountability requires sophisticated data systems.

Data-driven instruction is essential for educators to tailor learning, as long as the right safeguards are in place. To ensure adequate preservation and use of personally identifiable student data and to enable innovative learning models and modalities to personalize learning and eliminate achievement gaps, it is crucial to establish balanced policies that provide effective governance procedures. Policymakers should be careful to avoid stifling innovation by enforcing restrictive laws governing student data, as this may have unforeseen implications.

It is frequently simple to identify regulatory hurdles when considering the move to competency-based, personalized learning environments (like seat-time requirements). Although OER, data systems, student privacy and security, and broadband may appear to be unrelated policy concerns, these infrastructure-related regulations can be just as enabling or restrictive as the other concerns. When supporting infrastructure and related policies are implemented with student-centered learning in mind, personalized learning thrives.