FERPA Challenges to Consider | Origin: CM141
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FERPA and Privacy: A Practical Approach --> FERPA Challenges to Consider
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I agree Karen. The takeaway is that records that are protected by FERPA are not susceptible to the HIPAA Privacy regulations and can be shared, for example to parents responsible for the dependent children.
In this module I was able to learn about the importance how FERPA is affected related to HIPPA, Solaman Amendment, and SEVIS. HIPPA has alot of similarities to FERPA protection of rights. I learned what the Solaman Admendment was and how it supercedes FERPA. This information is very relavent. The online method of teaching presents unique challenges with FERPA and it makes sense not to have Anonymous students since you need interaction between students and the instructor.
I'd like to see the law around needing written consent from a student to post their participation in a course online. I got many ideas about Best practices. I learned about the Solomon Amendment and the Patriot Act.... I need to find out what our policy on Esigning is though we tend to use it quite a bit.
It has been helpful to learn what must been released, what is not, when it is on a registry, and more. Laws are in place for the student and the institution.
If an instructor is teaching online and wants to record the class, a release would be needed to record students responding. Students' participation may prevent the instructor in posting or showing the video.
I learned that there are agencies that supersede FERPA regulations. An example would be “the Solomon Amendment” which is a federal law that allows military recruiters to access some address, biographical, and academic program information on students aged 17 and older. Institutions are obliged to provide the information once per term to each branch of the armed services upon request by military recruiters. Tis was new information for me. As was the “Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act” which requires financial institutions to explain their information-sharing practices to their customers and to protect sensitive data. With online learning students I was glad to learn that they can opt out of sharing directory information, but they cannot be completely anonymous, and they are required to participate in online postings an activities. All new updates for me althought I have been in education a while. Very useful.
It was very interesting to learn about the other regulations that we need to deal with regarding student data. I have worked with recruiters quite a bit in the past and they've always provided signed releases to me. I was interested to read about the Solomon Amendment and how it supercedes FERPA.
Students participating in distance learning cannot be announimus when posting on discussion boards for courses.
Interesting to think about how FERPA applies when wanting to share a screen shot of an online classroom.
do not share information haphazerdly
I learned that permission must be obtained to record students for public display.
This was a great section showing all the different Acts and regulations and what supersedes what-a lot of information in this section
I was not very familiar with the Solomon's Amendment or the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act-and wow, I’m a bit shocked. My question is, I do not recall institutions publishing a student facing notice that reflects federal law’s that interact with FERPA. In the reading it was not clear to me if the institution needs a policy or should have practice with notifying students in this regard. It would matter since the federal laws will most likely supersedes FERPA.
I leanred that the impact of technology and distance learning has made some of the protection difficult, therefore we need to be more careful on how we share information.
Being annonymous with discussion boards was a question that I had that is now clear. Many instructors like to record slectures with student particiation, and it is good to know that before posting on you tube,students need to sign consemts.
I learned about the SEVIS & Solomon Amendment
FERPA takes precedence over all other regulators when applied to educational records
on-line education also qualifies under FERPA regs....
I agree with the comments of the others, I didn't realize some of the items could be revealed.
