“Whether or not that’s a legal issue is less concerning to me than it is an ethical issue.” “This is a real problem, and we need to figure this out,” Morris said. Morris said he is proposing Course Hero design a button or other tool to warn students before they upload materials, cautioning them to remove their names and other identifying information. Morris said he was grateful for Costa’s essay because it is helping him “understand where the sticky problems are, and how we can begin to solve them.” Sean Michael Morris, a newly hired vice president at Course Hero and former director of the University of Colorado at Denver’s Digital Pedagogy Lab, said he is leading an effort to address the gaps that have led to students posting sensitive accounts of abuse-and identifying themselves in the process. In some cases, high school students are among those sharing sensitive content, which Ho said she was also unaware of, since Course Hero “is not directed toward minors.” “We are a user-generated site and, we say publicly, we have 70 million documents any given day, and so it’s not something we have a good sense of-what’s in the library,” Ho said. Monique Ho, Course Hero’s chief compliance officer and general counsel, said she was unaware students had uploaded such sensitive content to the site prior to Costa’s Medium essay being posted. (Note: Inside Higher Ed asked Costa to contact some of the students and faculty members to see if any were willing to speak about their experiences, but none were willing.) “I just see this as an immense violation, exploitation and safety issue for these students.” “They’re feeding these students’ deeply personal stories into their data farm,” Costa said in an interview. Removes Some Departments’ Statements on Race Chief privacy officer role should be reimagined (opinion).She questioned why a company valued at $3.6 billion would not do more to protect the students from whose work it profits. Costa found numerous examples of student writings-frequently with identifying information-disclosing intensely personal traumas, including gang rape, incest and domestic violence. Karen Costa, an educator focused on trauma and a freelance faculty development facilitator, put Course Hero’s questionable practices regarding student privacy and trauma in the spotlight with a post on Mediumearlier this month.
(All three excerpts quoted above included the full name and university of the student authors.) The first-person narratives, which often include the full names of the students and the colleges they attend, were submitted to the site by the students. The excerpts from these and countless other student papers appear on the course materials–sharing platform operated by Course Hero, which operates an online learning site for students to access course-specific study resources. “This went on for about 4 or 5 years until I said something and eventually, I got into a better situation.” “When I was about four years old, my father started raping me,” a student at a Colorado community college wrote.
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