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Literacy in a digital education world and peripheral issues.
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Teaching Literature Through Technology: Sherlock Holmes and Digital Humanities /

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Learning Analytics | Office of Educational Technology

Learning Analytics | Office of Educational Technology | Information and digital literacy in education via the digital path | Scoop.it

With analytics and data mining experiments in education starting to proliferate, sorting out fact from fiction and identifying research possibilities and practical applications are not easy. This issue brief is intended to help policymakers and administrators understand how analytics and data mining have been—and can be—applied for educational improvement while rigorously protecting student privacy.

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How to Transform your Google Spreadsheet Into an Opinion Mining Tool

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This blog was originally featured on blog.aylien.com, a Text Analysis blog with tutorials, Data Visualisations and industry discussions.
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Libraries at the centre of the debate on copyright and text and data …

LIBER advocacy work on TDM and copyright reform presented at IFLA WLIC 2014, Lyon.
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Do No Evil? Google Sued For Data-Mining Kids' Emails in Its Education App

Do No Evil? Google Sued For Data-Mining Kids' Emails in Its Education App | Information and digital literacy in education via the digital path | Scoop.it

Google admits scanning millions of student emails to serve targeted advertisements. 

 

Google has been rocked by another scandal - this time, it's our children's privacy under attack. The company is facing a lawsuit over data-mining student emails in a bid for advertisements in the company’s Apps for Education tool suite for schools, Info Docket reported.

Maria Richards's curator insight, March 22, 2014 9:36 PM

Unacceptable from Google while we try to teach children "ethical" online behaviours!

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Lunch Keynote: The Role of Learning Analytics in Improving Teaching and Learning

Interest in big data, data mining, and analytics is strong and growing in business and government. Recent reports by McKinsey, HBR, and Deloitte indicate tha...
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Reimagining Libraries In The Digital Era: Lessons From Data Mining The Internet Archive - Forbes

Reimagining Libraries In The Digital Era: Lessons From Data Mining The Internet Archive - Forbes | Information and digital literacy in education via the digital path | Scoop.it
What I’ve learned over the last three years of data mining the Internet Archive and what it means for the future of libraries in the big data era
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The Learning Analytics Landscape: Tension Between Student Privacy and the Process of Data Mining - Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching

The Learning Analytics Landscape: Tension Between Student Privacy and the Process of Data Mining - Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching | Information and digital literacy in education via the digital path | Scoop.it
Data mining is a powerful tool being used by educational institutions to support student success, but often students do not know what data are being
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The Limits of Copyright: Text and Data Mining - Creative Commons

The Limits of Copyright: Text and Data Mining - Creative Commons | Information and digital literacy in education via the digital path | Scoop.it
Creative Commons licenses provide a flexible range of protections and freedoms for authors, artists, and educators.

We're taking part in Copyright Week, a series of actions and discussions supporting key principles that should guide copyright policy. Every day this week, various groups are taking on different elements of the law, and addressing what's at stake, and what we need to do to make sure that copyright promotes creativity and innovation.

Today’s topic is about supporting fair use,...
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How Can Big Data Enhance Education? - Edudemic

How Can Big Data Enhance Education? - Edudemic | Information and digital literacy in education via the digital path | Scoop.it
Big Data is all around. Used in every type of industry to identify trends and possibility, data is also being used in education.
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Digital tools to bolster research effort | Jisc Inform / Issue 38, Winter 2013

Digital tools to bolster research effort | Jisc Inform / Issue 38, Winter 2013 | Information and digital literacy in education via the digital path | Scoop.it

Text mining and data mining are just two among a growing number of applied technologies. Jisc Inform explores how these and others are being developed to help researchers do everything from the mundane – such as managing routine research tasks more effectively – to the truly remarkable.

 

In medical research, text mining can be used to review tens of thousands of pages of research papers simultaneously and detect patterns and associations that could otherwise easily remain hidden from researchers. Those previously unimagined connections could help to bring about rapid, important advances in understanding disease pathology, genetics and drug development.

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