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LMS Surveillance
> I wonder why institutions would willingly encourage near-unquestioning authoritative power for instructors over students’ actions in their LMSs that they would not allow in the classroom. Can we even imagine a physical classroom where these things occur? An instructor looks over the shoulders of students to make sure they spend the appropriate amount of…
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Engineering and online proctoring
> We too recognize the importance of educating engineering students responsibly. In fact, we argue that when we rely on deeply flawed systems to govern important aspects of students’ education, we model precisely the type of irresponsible behaviour that we want future engineers to understand and avoid. Our existing physical and digital infrastructures demonstrate the…
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Uncertainty Communication
> We are a research lab working at the intersection of information visualization and uncertainty communication. Our mission is to combat misinterpretations and overconfidence in data by developing visual representations and human-in-the-loop tools that express uncertainty and align with how people think. Topics we like include sampling-oriented uncertainty visualizations, eliciting and modeling beliefs about data,…
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Tip of My Tongue
> Tip of My TongueFind that word that you’ve been thinking about all day but just can’t seem to remember [source](https://chir.ag/projects/tip-of-my-tongue/)
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Social Media and Mental Health
> Our analysis couples data on student mental health around the years of Facebook’s expansion with a generalized difference-in-differences empirical strategy. We find that the roll-out of Facebook at a college increased symptoms of poor mental health, especially depression, and led to increased utilization of mental healthcare services. We also find that, according to the…
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Entangled Pedagogy and People
> People tend to think that investing in good quality tech is what makes the hyflex type of thing work, whereas I feel with Virtually Connecting we realized that investing in people online and virtual who know how to use the tech well to provide human connection – those are the ones worth investing in,…
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Hormones
> Through a strange and cruel biological quirk my body craves but cannot produce the molecule that saves my life. [source](http://whenwillthehurtingstop.blogspot.com/2016/10/gimme-some-truth.html)
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News and the Internet
> I get that navigating online bullshit is hard. I wish none of these words I wrote were necessary. I wish journalism wasn’t fully intertwined with commercial advertising platforms that connect millions of people with each other at once. I wish we didn’t outsource our political and cultural conversations to these commercial advertising platforms. I…
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Drakengard Original Soundtrack
> It would be difficult to explain the music of Drag-on Dragoon in a single paragraph. I want you to imagine the following: on a morning without school or work, a carefully selected egg has been lying on the table since the previous night at room temperature. You lightly pluck the egg off of the…
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Quality assessment demands resources
> Another major step was earmarking CARES Act funding to hire “graders” who could help faculty in high-enrollment courses grade and provide feedback on redesigned authentic assessments, which take longer to grade than traditional exams. The additional assistance of the graders provided more bandwidth to instructors, who normally do not have access to teaching assistants/graduate…