EDUCATIONAL INFRASTRUCTURE & CRITIQUES OF TECHNOCRATIC SOLUTIONISM

At AAUP-AFT union meetings 2019–2020, union members were eager for more information on questions of EdTech and health tech equity, privacy, surveillance, and data collection and uses given their observations of what were perceived as rights violations, and lack of university transparency. Concerns grew in the pandemic and given our expertise, my co-authors and I embarked on initial fact-finding about contracts, vendor relationships, and  privacy rights. We initially conceptualized this work with an assumed outcome of pragmatic institutional policy shifts.

ACADEMIC ARTICLES

OP-EDS

Paris, B., Reynolds, R., McGowan, C. (September, 2021) “Sins of Omission: Critical Informatics Perspectives on Higher Education Learning Analytics”, Journal for the Association for Information Science and Technology. https://doi.org/10.1002/asi.24575

Paris, B., Reynolds, R., and McGowan, C. (April 12, 2021). Platforms Like Canvas Play Fast and Loose With Students’ Data. The Nation. https://www.thenation.com/article/society/canvas-surveillance/

Paris, B. (29 April, 2020). Free app to help NJ employees to manage anxiety during the pandemic may not be so free, or good, after all, New Jersey Star Ledger. https://www.nj.com/opinion/2020/04/free-app-to-help-nj-employees-manage-anxiety-during-the-pandemic-may-not-be-so-free-or-good-after-all.html