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0eScholar Educational Data Blog
Posted by cmiddletondetzner on May 24, 2012
A market leader in education date, eScholar offers a suite of longitudinal data technology used by 13 state education agencies and more than 18 million of the nation's students. Its blog, written by Shawn Bay, one of the originators of data warehousing, features...
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The Public Forum on Action Analytics
Posted by cmiddletondetzner on May 24, 2012Funded by a grant from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, the Public Forum on Action Analytics is available to higher education institutions and technology vendors to support collaboration and sharing regarding best practices of action analytics in education. Visit this...
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With data, Philadelphia tries to plug the education-poverty gap
Posted by cmiddletondetzner on May 24, 2012Philadelphia’s most impoverished residents deserve access to higher education, says Philadelphia Mayor Michael Nutter, but the system is so complicated to navigate that it’s difficult for people to know where to start. That’s why Nutter’s office, in...
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0Colleges turn to ‘blended’ MOOCs
Posted by cmiddletondetzner on May 24, 2012Although online classes can provide widespread access to necessary college courses, helping students stay on track to graduation may mean providing corresponding personal support. To that end, this New York Times piece covers the new phenomenon of “blended”...
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Mark Milliron: The Case for Radical Immediate Feedback
Posted by cmiddletondetzner on May 24, 2012Mark Milliron, Chancellor of Western Governors University (WGU), has a radical proposal: Why not give learners immediate feedback on their progress? In this presentation, at ISKME’s annual Big Ideas Fest, Milliron speaks about an opportunity to use data and information to increase...
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0Debating the Coming Personalization of Higher Ed
Posted by cmiddletondetzner on May 24, 2012How can educational institutions, which produce more data than any other industry, use that data to better educate students? Focusing on a panel that convened at Arizona State University, this article covers the benefits and possible risks of data mining.
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