She speaks about technology that she ran across called CVC and MyEdu and stated that these two companies were teaming up to help students figure out their college career. She was very curious about this and made an account which showed her information about her and her classes.
Professor Lane found that the first three courses listed on MyEdu were not hers but were taught by a colleague of hers. This made her even more curious so she looked up the "view grades/courses" link and to her surprise, it showed her grade distribution. It didn't just have the grade distribution but it showed trends indicating whether the instructor was likely to grade higher or lower this semester for each class!
This was very interesting to me because it made the classroom "public" and showed trends of high and low grades by semester so that students could fish around for classes and see what classes to take or not take according to high and low grades. Professor Lane did confirm that these grades were correct and it seemed odd and scary to me that a University would let these grades leak to the public especially since all of the HIPPA laws that have been put in place.
I know that we shouldn't believe everything we read, especially on the internet, but I do agree with Professor Lane that websites like this that are free and that are claiming to “cu
t college costs by up to 20 percent by reducing the amount of time it takes to earn a degree and helping students stay on track” can damage the roles of Universities.
My question to this is "what is next" and how far will these websites go until individuals do not physically attend a building anymore and sit behind a desk or laptop/Ipad and learn from what they see online?
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