Dive Brief:
- A new Consortium for School Networking (CoSN) EdTechNext report explores the need for identity and access management in digital education technologies, the benefits of such resources and how schools in the U.S. are currently utilizing them.
- CoSN Chief Strategy Officer Irene Spero says the report will help educators and administrators “address student data and privacy challenges.”
- The report, which costs $99, defines five key points related to identity and access management, and provides case studies and practical examples of decisions related to ed-tech access and privacy.
Dive Insight:
Privacy and access are issues intrinsically related to all digital content and resources, especially content individualized for student use. Yet the student data debate has long been plagued by half-truths, some of which the Data Quality Campaign says have been debunked. Federal law prevents the use of student data for any commercial purpose, and the Education Sciences Reform Act explicitly prevents the creation of any federal database that consists of student data. CoSN’s new report sets out guidelines and tips for best practices for ed tech access management and privacy.
