Trust, Because You Can't Verify: Privacy and Security Hurdles in Education Technology Acquisition Practices
Easton Kelso, Ananta Soneji, Sazzadur Rahaman, Yan Shoshitaishvili, Rakibul Hasan · 2024
The education technology (EdTech) landscape is expanding rapidly in higher education institutes (HEIs). This growth brings enormous complexity. Protecting the extensive data collected by these tools is crucial for HEIs as data breaches and misuses can have dire security and privacy consequences for the data subjects, particularly students, who are often compelled to use these tools. This urges an in-depth understanding of HEI and EdTech vendor dynamics, which is largely understudied.