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Learning Analytics: OECD and EU

A recent conference on student data included perspectives on learning analytics from the OECD and the European Commission. Stephan Vincent-Lancrin (OECD) looked at how improving our use of student data could improve the quality of education provided. He noted that a considerable volume and variety of data about education is already generated within universities, and […]

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Data Protection Developments: How to Cope

I’ve been at several conferences recently on how Data Protection law is developing, and they’ve left me less than optimistic. By the end of 2015 Europe will have been working for four years on a Regulation “on the protection of individuals with regard to the processing of personal data and on the free movement of […]