Why I’m Not Going to BCNET 2020

If you live in British Columbia, work in higher education, and specialize in technology, BCNET is an important organization. BCNET is government-funded and has the mandate of making technology more available to the province’s universities and colleges. If you want to network or collaborate across institutions, learning to navigate BCNET will benefit you. Every year […]

Does selling a company mean selling its data?

This post is adapted from 7 tweets I made on December 22nd, 2019. There is still debate within the educational technology community about whether Instructure’s acquisition (which may be falling apart) constitutes a sale of student data. I believe it does. The data is an asset of the company, and is transferred along with the […]

New changes to Instructure Privacy Policy

This post is adapted from 12 tweets I made on December 5th, 2019. Welcome to my fun and chill evening, which I spent diving into the Instructure privacy policy because I like to feel bad 😬 You are now entering the privacy zone! bEwArE On October 28th, 2019, Instructure updated their Privacy Policy for the […]

How Instructure’s leadership monetizes student data to maximize shareholder value

This post is adapted from 35 tweets I made on December 6th. On December 4th last year, Instructure (the company that makes Canvas) announced that they had entered into an agreement to sell the company to a private equity firm (Thoma Bravo) for two billion dollars. Every owner of Instructure stock stands to receive $47.60 […]