Below are posts associated with the โCanvasโ tag.
๐ linkblog: Canvas is open source, but its cloud services ransomware attack really hurts
Ben’s perspective here is useful.
๐ linkblog: 'The Biggest Student Data Privacy Disaster in History': Canvas Hack Shows the Danger of Centralized EdTech
Some important observations by Ian Linkletter in this interview.
๐ linkblog: The Canvas Hack Is a New Kind of Ransomware Debacle
Definitely worth bookmarking this for semesters to come. I like Canvas as far as LMSs go, but the sheer scale of dependence here has me thinking about taking other approaches. This first paragraph is a doozy:
Higher education has long been a target of ransomware gangs and data extortion attacks. But never before, perhaps, has a cyberattack against a single software platform so thoroughly disrupted the daily operations of thousands of schools across the United States.
๐ linkblog: Canvas is down as ShinyHunters threatens to leak schoolsโ data
Oh wait, this is worse.
๐ linkblog: The AWS Outage Was a Nightmare for College Students
Universities are too platform dependent, and even those platforms are too dependent on the next layer of the stack. What a mess.
๐ linkblog: Instructure and OpenAI Announce Global Partnership to Embed AI Learning Experiences within Canvas
Dammit, am I going to have to stop using Canvas?
new publication: Canvas and student privacy awareness
For the past couple of years, my colleague Dr. Meghan Dowell and I have been working on a paper on students’ awareness of what data the Canvas learning management system collects (and subsequently makes available to certain stakeholders). I’m a fan of Nick Proferes’s paper [Information Flow Solipsism in an Exploratory Study of Beliefs About Twitter] and have long wanted to do something similar related to LMSs. This is even more Meghan’s area of specialty than mine, though, so I was grateful that she was also interested in the subject and took the lead in turning this idea into reality.
๐ linkblog: He Wanted Privacy. His College Gave Him None โ The Markup'
This is a really important read. It’s why educational technology researchers should be concerned about more than “does it improve learning?"โand why our understanding of edtech needs to include all of these platforms, not just the obvious stuff.