

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...


Funded 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...


Philadelphia’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...

Although 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”...


Mark 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...

How 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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