Posts Tagged ‘FERPA’
February 7 - FERPA and Social Media
By: John Orlando, PhD in Teaching with Technology
FERPA is one of the most misunderstood regulations in education. It is commonly assumed that FERPA requires all student coursework to be kept private at all times, and thus prevents the use of social media in the classroom, but this is wrong. FERPA does not prevent instructors from assigning students to create public content as part of their course requirements. If it did, then video documentaries produced in a communications class and shown on TV or the Web, or public art shows of student work from an art class, would be illegal. As one higher education lawyer put it:
July 22 - Teaching Students with Learning Disabilities in the Online Classroom
By: Rob Kelly in Online Education
Students with learning disabilities tend to learn better in the online environment, but institutions are not doing enough to prepare instructors to meet their needs, says Mary Beth Crum, an online instructor at the University of Wisconsin—Stout and Walden University.
June 2 - Reasons You Could be Disciplined, Fired, or Sued
By: Mary Bart in Faculty Development
A parent calls you to ask how her son is doing in your class. Her son, a first-year student, began the semester well but recently started missing class and turning in assignments late. The mother says she’s worried about him and wants to know if he’s showing up for class, how his grades are, and if he will pass your class.
March 16 - Law 101 for Faculty Members: How Not to Get Sued
By: Mary Bart in Online Seminars
Faculty members today are expected to know and adhere to a host of new legal mandates. Get the necessary tools and information to understand the legal concerns that most commonly impact academia and how to prevent the litigation that can arise from them.
Brett A. Sokolow, J.D. is the president of NCHERM, a national multidisciplinary consulting firm. He has recently co-authored “A Model Approach to Behavioral Intervention and Threat Assessment” and co-authored a just-published article for the Journal of College and University Law, entitled “The Liability for Colleges and Universities of Violent Campus Attacks.”
