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Volume 6 Issue 5 - FERPA Overview
for Online Educators
By: Virgil E. Varvel Jr. <vvarvel@uillinois.edu>
Keywords: privacy, online education,
privacy protection, educational records
Privacy can be an important issue to many individuals. For example,
most people would not want their academic record posted on the Web for anyone
to see. Many also would not want their class time streamed as a video online
without their consent. For some, a shift to online education may even be
due to a desire for anonymity and privacy. In the online era within a Web
initially designed to share information, we must consider that not all information
should be shared in the same way. In many circumstances, privacy can be considered
an individual right that government should serve to protect. By providing
guidelines in listed situations, this article will address specific issues
of online privacy in an educational context and regulations that the government
and other institutions have put in place to protect that privacy.
 FERPA
Overview for Online Educators
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