Extending the classroom on the open web

What is open technology and why should we care?

Is Google an open, ethical technology?

Google is not a search company, or a web services company, it is…

Are you ready? Here is all the data Facebook and Google have on you.

Google records your location even when you tell it not to.

Google reportedly bought Mastercard data to link online ads with offline purchases.

Is Facebook an open, ethical technology?

We have no choice but to accept how Facebook supports (or does not support) linking, searching, archiving, exporting… Features appear and disappear.

Facebook’s revenue is derived from advertising and selling the data of its users.

In the study, a computer could more accurately predict the subject’s personality than a work colleague by analysing just ten Likes; more than a friend or a cohabitant (roommate) with 70, a family member (parent, sibling) with 150, and a spouse with 300 Likes. — “Computers using digital footprints are better judges of personality than friends and family”, University of Cambridge Research

Many considerations for safe, ethical open online learning.

Is Moodle an open technology?

What Moodle does well…

The open side of Moodle:

But…

https://moodle.tru.ca/course/view.php?id=5764

What technology skills do students learn when they learn to use Moodle (or some other Learning Management System)? Will they use them anywhere else?