Yes, I see this side of it. It's certainly important to question the uses and effectiveness of techniques - monitoring or otherwise. My problem with the narrat

Yes, I see this side of it. It's certainly important to question the uses and effectiveness of techniques - monitoring or otherwise. My problem with the narrative of the comments in this thread is that they seem to be paranoid, and they have tunnel vision about CourseSmart, while making claims that will rule out all of the effective new ed tech platforms coming out. Just look at something like Newton, they monitor your performance like crazy, but they do it in order to make your personal curriculum much more effective for you. Getting outraged about monitoring doesn't even really make sense. We monitor everything these days as an effective way to improve our products, now when a school does it some huge line is crossed? Don't you want our education system to improve? Shouldn't they be trying to improve in the same effective way we improve websites? You monitor user interaction and make adjustments based on that data.