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Peter Mellow
August 23, 2012 8:56 AM
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Analytics experts can make crucial business decisions at record speed, and without the need for senior management help.
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Kim Flintoff
August 21, 2012 7:53 PM
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Analytics in Higher Education: Benefits, Barriers, Progress, and Recommendations The objectives of this research were to assess the current state of analytics in higher education, outline the challenges and barriers to using analytics, and develop a maturity index to provide a common means of assessing progress in analytics. Downloads available: - Complete report - Infographic - Slide presentation - Data Tables - Survey Instrument
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Kim Flintoff
August 16, 2012 10:25 PM
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The Journal of Online Learning and Teaching... The purpose of this study was to examine correlates of both online classroom community and student engagement in online learning, as well as to compare community and engagement across disciplines in higher education. Participants (n=1,410) in online courses across five colleges and in both graduate and undergraduate courses were asked to complete an online survey. The survey consisted of 23 items measuring community and engagement as well as an additional six demographic items. Factor analysis yielded the following three factors accounting for approximately 58% of the total variance: classroom community with instructors (eight items), classroom community with classmates (eight items), and engagement in learning (seven items).
TED Talks Daphne Koller is enticing top universities to put their most intriguing courses online for free -- not just as a service, but as a way to research how people learn. Each keystroke, comprehension quiz, peer-to-peer forum discussion and self-graded assignment builds an unprecedented pool of data on how knowledge is processed and, most importantly, absorbed.
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Kim Flintoff
July 30, 2012 7:39 PM
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The Towards Maturity 2012 Benchmark Study is free to participant in thanks to the Towards Maturity’s Ambassador Programme, made up of 19 leading learning organisations. They work together as Ambassadors for change, identifying and improving good practice, raising awareness and driving the whole learning industry forward.
"We find that learning outcomes are essentially the same—that students in the hybrid format "pay no price” for this mode of instruction in terms of pass rates, final exam scores, and performance on a standardized assessment of statistical literacy. These zero-difference coefficients are precisely estimated. We also conduct speculative cost simulations and find that adopting hybrid models of instruction in large introductory courses have the potential to significantly reduce instructor compensation costs in the long run." KF: There is a growing body of such reports suggesting that concerns about academic achievement in online and blended contexts seem to be unfounded.
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Kim Flintoff
July 24, 2012 9:34 AM
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Join us for these free, daily webinars to discuss the challenges and opportunities of analytics in higher education. These webinars align with the Sprint's daily themes and allow participants to interact with guest speakers, hosts, and fellow participants. Each seminar will be delivered live using Adobe Connect (an online audio and video/image presentation technology), which allows you to interact through your web browser. Because enrollment in each live webinar is limited, register early. If a webinar you are interested in is either filled or scheduled for an inconvenient time, you can access the recording shortly after the live session (from this web page). Day 1: What Does Analytics Mean for Higher Education? Day 2: Analytics for Teaching, Learning, and Student Success Day 3: Analytics for Enterprise Efficiency and Effectiveness
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Peter Mellow
July 23, 2012 8:45 AM
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Netflix meets Google meets academia. Data mining is reshaping the college experience.
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Peter Mellow
June 25, 2012 10:04 AM
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The State of Learning Analytics in 2012: A Review and Future Challenges, The Open University, March 2012. Author Rebecca Ferguson from the Open University's Knowledge Media Institute, provides a detailed look at the history of Learning Analytics research and what the future may hold.
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Peter Mellow
from Learning & Technology News
June 21, 2012 8:30 PM
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Learning analytics tools can track far more data than an instructor can alone. For high-enrollment classes in particular, LA provides a support structure that monitors student progress and offers timely guidance to students whose academic under- performance might otherwise go quietly unnoticed. At their best, LA applications can identify factors that are unexpectedly associated with student learning and course completion. This information can be valuable both to students, in how they approach learning, and to faculty, in how they structure curricula.
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Kim Flintoff
June 18, 2012 9:02 PM
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Learning assessment systems are becoming more commonplace in higher education. This article outlines 4 challenges to these systems and offers solutions.
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Peter Mellow
June 9, 2012 8:49 AM
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Are you looking for simple, straightforward metrics to measure the impact of your social media efforts?
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Peter Mellow
June 4, 2012 4:00 AM
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Simple hits to a web page, but presented in a visual way!
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Peter Mellow
August 22, 2012 8:07 PM
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There’s big talk these days about “big data” in education—looking for patterns of behavior as students click through online classrooms and using the insights to improve instruction. One start-up company that manages online discussion forums for thousands of courses recently performed its first major analysis of behavioral trends among students, and found what its leaders say amounts to advice for instructors.
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Peter Mellow
August 19, 2012 8:19 PM
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Klout and Kred use single score influence metrics that are comprised by many data points. A new crop of software provides channel-specific scores-Which is best?
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Kim Flintoff
August 16, 2012 9:42 PM
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EDUCAUSE Review Online... Key Takeaways To take its existing data analysis efforts deeper, Chico State University is studying how student achievement is related to (LMS) use and student characteristics. The project is also assessing whether student achievement in courses that have been redesigned to include technology correlates with LMS use. Among the project's early findings are the importance of LMS data filtering, incongruences between LMS course hits and time spent on activities, and that students from low-income families use the LMS more frequently (and longer) than students from higher-income families. If successful, this project will be scaled out across other courses at Chico State, University and it is designed for easy adoption by other California State University campuses by using common student data definitions and shared interests about student success.
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Peter Mellow
August 2, 2012 9:06 PM
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Last month, Araceli Perez of e-interactive created a fantastic infographic resource for social media analytics. The infographic was compiled from Ara ...
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Kim Flintoff
July 28, 2012 10:00 PM
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Abstract Analytics: A 3 Day Sprint - July 24th, 2012 Hear what analytics means for higher education and IT from experienced leaders. Preview the results of a nationwide survey of analytics in higher education. Learn about the “big questions” analytics raises. KF: Here are the first of the resources emerging from the sprint. The webinar recording, slide sets, video and other materials..
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Peter Mellow
July 24, 2012 10:10 AM
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Talk about analytics seems to be everywhere. Everyone is talking about analytics. Presidents are talking. CIOs are talking. Corporate representatives are talking. Government representatives are talking. Media pundits are talking. Yet even with all the talk, many in higher education have questions about—and objections to—using analytics in colleges and universities.
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Kim Flintoff
July 24, 2012 9:27 AM
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We asked several higher ed professionals what analytics means to them. The results provide an insight into the nature of analytics and what it means to higher education institutions.
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Kim Flintoff
July 5, 2012 11:47 PM
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Join us online on August 9, 2012 for the IBM Business Analytics Online Education Conference, held in partnership with Campus Review and Education Review. This interactive, live event will bring together senior level speakers and attendees from across higher education, primary and secondary schools and Departments of Education.
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Peter Mellow
June 25, 2012 9:13 AM
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Steve Schoettler of Junyo explains how big data could be used to improve education to the point of doubling student achievement at a large scale.
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Kim Flintoff
June 20, 2012 8:20 PM
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Analytics on Higher Education's Doorstep July 24–26, 2012 │ Online Join the conversation. Registration for the free, live webinars is now open. No registration is required to take part in the other Sprint activities. A free, online experience consisting of online activities and resources, webinars, and discussions on analytics. "90 percent of our community believes analytics will be more important in 2 years. Will you be ready?"
Social Networks Adapting Pedagogical Practice (SNAPP) SNAPP is a software tool that allows users to visualize the network of interactions resulting from discussion forum posts and replies. The network visualisations of forum interactions provide an opportunity for teachers to rapidly identify patterns of user behaviour – at any stage of course progression. SNAPP has been developed to extract all user interactions from various commercial and open source learning management systems (LMS) such as BlackBoard (including the former WebCT), and Moodle. SNAPP is compatible for both Mac and PC users and operates in Internet Explorer, Firefox and Safari.
William Lounsbury for The Chronicle"It's important that the research community improve perhaps as quickly as the cheating community is improving," says Neal Kingston, of the U. of Kansas, who organized a Conference on Statistical Detection of Potential Test Fraud.
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