industryterm:online text

Students under surveillance
▻https://www.ft.com/content/634624c6-312b-11e5-91ac-a5e17d9b4cff

Universities are increasingly using personal data to predict performance. But, asks Helen Warrell, at what cost to privacy ? A week after students begin their distance learning courses at the UK’s Open University this October, a computer program will have predicted their final grade. An algorithm monitoring how much the new recruits have read of their online textbooks, and how keenly they have engaged with web learning forums, will cross-reference this information against data on each (...)

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A Short History of the Russian Digital Shadow Libraries by Balázs Bodó
▻http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2616631

RuNet, the Russian segment of the internet is now the home of the most comprehensive scientific pirate libraries on the net. These sites offer free access to hundreds of thousands of books and millions of journal articles. In this contribution we try to understand the factors that led to the development of these sites, and the sociocultural and legal conditions that enable them to operate under hostile legal and political conditions. Through the reconstruction of the micro-histories of peer produced online text collections that played a central role in the history of RuNet, we are able to link the formal and informal support for these sites to the specific conditions developed under the Soviet and post Soviet times.