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In pretty much every conference that I have attended, there have been some presentations or workshops on the legal and policy environment in which instructional designers and IT folks work. The affordances and constraints of a litigious environment mean that we have to proceed defensively.
Word is that “anonymity” (which has never truly existed online, no?) also is no defense against libel. People are realizing that there are limits to free speech, just as there are with every legal right ...
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A regular part of email life involves vetting the spam. Many of these are very easy to detect—based on the misspellings, the uses of the Cyrillic Russian alphabet, the come-ins for password or account information, the calls for secrecy, the offers of low-cost pharmaceuticals, body enhancements, and other predictable information.
Recently, I got one that was a personalized spear-phishing venture that broke the mold. It was from Nigeria (red flag) and asked for my editing services for a publication ...
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For the faculty and staff who will be hitting the road this summer, many will be taking their various digital devices and laptop computers. In that spirit, our campus IT security folks offered a training to support us in keeping both equipment and data safe.
The actual physical protections of equipment are pretty straightforward, with many locking devices that may be used to secure laptops to more fixed surfaces. The presenter suggested bags that do not look like laptop ones ...
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This issue surfaces in the popular media every so often, when a celebrity’s medical records, police file, mug shot, or some other official information gets compromised and released to the press. The idea of “data voyeurism” is that of people who don’t have a “need-to-know” accessing information that they shouldn’t.
I ran across this term again in an article, in the context of Information Technology (IT). It seems to me that instructional designers also handle plenty of ...
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Hello, all: I am soliciting responses to a brief survey on the experiences instructors and facilitators have had regarding security in 3D immersive, interactive and persistent spaces (like Second Life) in higher education. This information will be used for a forthcoming article or chapter.
Survey Title: Security in 3D Immersive and Interactive Spaces in Higher Education
This survey will be offered Mar 9, 2009 through Mar 31, 2009.
To participate in the survey, please go to the following link:
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Here's an interesting column about Facebook, which has been integrated with some e-learning endeavors.
http://redtape.msnbc.com/2009/02/didnt-you-know.html
And the latest
http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/news/la-fi-facebook19-2009feb19,0,4088613.story
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Handing over a project is a necessity, or else one could be a stringer for a project into eternity, which would mean lost project opportunities into the future. The handover moment is a fragile one because it involves conveying the rich understandings of a project over the many months of the design and build work. It’s also about letting go in a way so that the work is successful into the future.
One critical piece is to ...
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by Eruditio Loginquitas
23 October 2008
I must be some sort of optimist. The “master” courses that I work on building are set up as perennial files, started one day and projected to go out to the year 2030 or beyond.
There’s no possibility that these courses will be offered in the same form as today some 20+ years from now, but that date is shorthand for “sometime into the future” until this course is sunsetted.
While we instructional designers may not ...
Continue reading For the Next Little While: Digital Preservation and Long-term Storage
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A fast one-day immersion in the concerns of securing electronic votes occurred back in mid-September, with the visit of a leading figure in evaluating the security of electronic voting machines.
Dr. Douglas W. Jones of the U of Iowa Dept. of Computer Science presented “The Trials and Tribulations of Electronic Voting” in mid-Sept. at K-State. He gave a brief history of ballot voting in the US and showed how the various systems in the US have been hacked and abused ...
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One of the first tenets of political storytelling is to embody one’s story. Have a clear alignment between one’s lived life and one’s presentations…the theories-in-action vs. the professed theories-in-use.
At a recent national conference, a large corporation fielded a team of presenters who demonstrated a system that they used for automated training of their staff. However, instead of showing any of their actual trainings, they used fictional training contents—in this case, how to tell why ...
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Professor John Scigliano’s initiation into online space was not very salutary the way he tells it. He had logged on to Second Life when he was approached by a “furry” in lizard form, who promptly assaulted his avatar. This professor at the Graduate School of Computer and Information Sciences of Nova Southeastern University in Ft. Lauderdale, Florida, was somewhat traumatized, the way he tells it.
In “Payoffs, Spin-offs, and Ripoffs in Virtual Worlds: What Gain? What Pain?” at the ...
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"Are you involved in, or do you plan to be involved in any activity where you have agreed, or plan to agree, to any restriction regarding the publication; disclosure; shipment; distribution or release of a particular item or goods, technology, or information? This includes written, electronic, digital, or verbal information."
This above question was part of an automated training that I took part in recently on export controls. The answer in my mind was, "Well, yes, maybe."
Between the Y ...
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A recent local conference on informational security in this modern age introduced a new concept. It's that of "media sanitation". I heard about it at a presentation on a different topic and missed the actual presentation on "Cleaning Spells," so I went online and found an informative article by T. Olzak (June 2006). His article "Fundamentals of Storage Media Sanitation" offers a very accessible view of this issue.
Olzak cites Scholl, et al.'s 2006 definition of ...
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"I wonder if there's a way to make a PowerPoint that can be shown, but the slideshow images cannot be captured by a digital camera."
The scenario went something like this. A researcher had put plenty of time into a research project. She went overseas to an international conference to present on her research findings. While she'd written a short overview of her presentation, the actual presentation itself included tables of sensitive never-before-published data that ...
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Attorney C.L. Lindsay, founder of the non-profit national organization Coalition for Student and Academic Rights (CO-STAR), spoke on the dangers of Facebook and MySpace to an enthusiastic crowd on Oct. 16.
He offered some great common-sense approaches to handling personal information on the WWW.
Some principles:
Think of the off-line equivalent first. In the same way that people wouldn't shoplift CDs, they shouldn't download movies or music that doesn't belong to them. Federal copyright law addresses ...
Continue reading College-Level Cautions re: Net Use and eLearners
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The 2007 Interactive Technologies Conference (sponsored by SALT) included a presentation by two Apple staff--LeRoy Dennison and Russ White. The presentation (full of multimedia and levity) was titled: "Rapid Development at Apple (Quickly and Effectively Delivering Training to a Worldwide Sales Force)."
The training work in this organization manifests in a variety of ways. The training work involves training both the direct and indirect channel sales force. They also offer fee-based customer training (which from the design angle involves the ...
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For many of us who work in the online realm, a lot of what we create is digital representing the real. I attended a session recently at the Washington Interactive Technologies conference that dealt firmly with real-space. Dr. Maria Lizano-DiMare discussed "Rugged Mobile Computer Technology."
The concept here is that ubiquitous research and learning require bringing potentially sensitive computer equipment into the field - whether that be a live volcano or crop field or an ocean habitat. While I've seen ...
Continue reading Stepping out of Virtuality into Real-Space Ruggedness
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One higher education takeaway from the flooding of New Orleans relates to disaster recovery / business continuance (DR/BC). Many of the universities in New Orleans survived because of the good will and contributions of other universities - that took the stranded students and offered them a comparable education but which deflected the tuition back to the universities in that city.
This realization that the brick-and-mortar of a campus could be hit by an unforeseen disaster led various ...
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The snippet of information was included deep in the presentation. A fascinating curricular build has been achieved for miners to improve safety. The learning was delivered off of a website as well as through mobile devices. The learning met SCORM 2004 compliance and Section 508 standards. It useful integrated prior existing digital contents. It met the standards of the oversight agency, and it did so under budget and within deadline. They had built in an "accident reporting coach" to help ...
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A training by our resident security expert touched on various ways digital information may be grabbed and exploited. He addressed issues of open wifi networks. He talked about the risks of portable memory devices. He discussed regular patching. He talked about encryption. He gave vivid examples of data compromises along with some humorous Rumsfeldian quotes.
He didn't go into the weakest link, which would be the human factor. He maybe was being too polite.
A while ago, I'd ...
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So I just went through a learner-directed "automated" study of six online modules related to human subjects review. There weren't pre- or post- tests per se, but this blog entry may serve as a kind of post-test. (Let's just say I pass.) While the heading for this blog is playful, the contents of IRB trainings are not, often opening with painful reviews of historical abuses of people in various types of biomedical and other "research." The nuances of ...