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Peter Mellow
from disruptive technolgies
May 5, 2016 9:04 PM
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Some things can never change when the concept of internet boom is taken into account. Since the dawn of human civilization, data has been at the forefront — dominating every piece of innovation. Over the period of centuries, we have evolved and so has the information sources— resulting in the emergence of ecommerce boon.
Via Marc Wachtfogel, Ph.D., Pauline Farrell
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Kim Flintoff
May 3, 2016 9:12 AM
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The data dashboard has become more sophisticated, but it is still only one lens through which educators should view their students
When Amber Teamann was a teacher in Garland, Texas, seven years ago, her use of data to help guide her instruction was fairly limited.
“Based on the programs I was using, I could evaluate how to differentiate instruction for my students,” she said. But tracking how well her students were meeting specific grade-level standards at any moment during the year wasn’t an option for her at that time, nor was looking at larger trends until after the school year had ended.
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Peter Mellow
April 25, 2016 9:40 PM
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Schools and universities pump lots of time and money into collecting data on learning analytics, but there is no research to show that such data actually helps to improve learning outcomes.
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Peter Mellow
April 5, 2016 6:49 PM
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Jenny Rankin in her TEDxTUM Talk on Education Data puts forward various examples on how heroes effectively used data to communicate various messages..
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Peter Mellow
from Learning & Mind & Brain
March 30, 2016 6:39 PM
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Some of us have assessed the situation, & the prognosis is not good for the test. We might be witnessing the death of testing.
I know that it is sad news for some, but more than a few of us have assessed the situation, and the prognosis is not good for our friend (or perhaps the arch enemy to others of us), the test. We might be witnessing the death of testing. Tests are not going away tomorrow or even next year, but their value will fade over the upcoming years until, finally, tests are, once and for all, a thing of the past. At least that is one possible future.
Via Elizabeth E Charles, Miloš Bajčetić
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Peter Mellow
March 16, 2016 5:34 PM
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In institutional core data, a course boils down to one data point per learner: the grade. In course management systems, a course easily produces five orders of magnitude more data points per learner. Do we really need two worlds of learning analytics?
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Peter Mellow
March 8, 2016 4:55 PM
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Researchers can now access de-identified learning data from more than 230 massive open online courses (MOOCs) hosted on Instructure's Canvas Network.
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Peter Mellow
February 25, 2016 4:38 PM
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Three higher ed chief data officers discuss the state of analytics at their institutions.
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Peter Mellow
February 16, 2016 4:23 PM
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How can the statistics we're gathering about our classrooms help us to become more effective teachers?
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Peter Mellow
February 9, 2016 6:04 PM
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A recent report shows the potential for learning analytics in higher education, says Jisc chief executive Paul Feldman
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Kim Flintoff
February 2, 2016 9:47 PM
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“Giving students their own digital domain is a radical act. It gives them the ability to work on the Web and with the Web.”
By Audrey Watters
Student privacy has become one of the hottest issues in education, with some 170 bills proposed so far this year that would regulate it. These legislative efforts stress the need to protect students when they’re online, safeguarding their data from advertisers as well as from unscrupulous people and companies. There’s some pushback against these proposals too, with arguments that restrictions on data might hinder research or the development of learning analytics or data-driven educational software.
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Peter Mellow
from disruptive technolgies
January 20, 2016 9:51 PM
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Peter Mellow
January 8, 2016 6:30 PM
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Phill Miller, VP of International Open Source Services, shares why learning analytics will be a powerful force in changing the way we approach education.
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Peter Mellow
May 5, 2016 7:08 PM
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Peter Mellow
April 26, 2016 8:09 AM
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ECAR Update: New Institutional and Learning Analytics Reports
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Peter Mellow
April 5, 2016 7:57 PM
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The Degreed debrief provides a very loud call to action: spend less time worrying about the tracking of learning and more time in facilitating learning.
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Peter Mellow
April 5, 2016 6:35 PM
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Data visualization expert Stephen Few said, “Numbers have an important story to tell. They rely on you to give them a clear and convincing voice.” With the influx of data and introduction of self-service analytics tools, we're going to need more people capable of communicating insights effectively. The next generation of data storytellers will not be limited to just analysts and data scientists. Everyone will need to know how to tell a story with numbers.
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Peter Mellow
from Educational Leadership
March 29, 2016 5:08 PM
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U of California at San Diego's new early warning system aims to condense millions of data points into a simple metric showing whether students will graduate on time.
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Peter Mellow
March 15, 2016 5:46 PM
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The American Council on Education’s (ACE) Center for Policy Research and Strategy (CPRS) released a new report with support from TIAA Institute, “Evolving Higher Education Business Models: Leading with Data to Deliver Results.”
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Peter Mellow
March 2, 2016 6:27 AM
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If you’ve been working in higher education (HE) for a while, you’ll know that the latest Higher Education Commission (HEC) report ‘From Bricks to Clicks: the Potential of Data and Analytics in Higher Education’ is welcome research. It brings into the spotlight the conversation about the strategic role that data and digital can play in HE.
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Kim Flintoff
February 18, 2016 8:57 PM
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We spoke with dozens of educators across a range of schools—from mainstream to technology-forward—and we conducted an online survey with a nationally representative sample of 4,600 public school teachers.
This study explores four questions:
• What do teachers believe about data-driven instruction and the tools that support it?
• How do teachers use data to tailor instruction?
• What are key challenges with the tools that support data-driven instruction?
• What do teachers need to make data work to inform instruction in the classroom?
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Kim Flintoff
February 10, 2016 6:39 AM
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Penn State uses hard data to see if faculty professional development in student engagement actually makes a difference.
How can institutions know whether or not professional development (PD) programs for faculty are effective? And does student engagement increase when faculty complete PD courses aimed at promoting student engagement in the online learning environment? According to one large university, PD in student engagement makes a significant difference…when applied in practice.
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Kim Flintoff
February 4, 2016 9:57 PM
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Taking a college course is a journey, and each student ends up charting a unique path through the assigned materials — bits of lectures that resonate, chance conversations with classmates, the parts of a textbook actually consumed.
With more courses happening online, colleges now can track those individual journeys more precisely. Such tracking is known as "learning analytics," and it’s how administrators at Utah State University created a single graphic that depicts all the student activity from a recent online course. When I met one of the top officials from the university at the big ed-tech conference held by Educause, this image is what he was excited to show me, as if it held the solution to a longstanding riddle he was working to decode. He called it "the spider graphic."
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Peter Mellow
January 28, 2016 6:34 PM
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The year 2015 was a turning point for data analytics technology. Now is the time for higher education institutions to put data to use and give students the advising support they need to succeed.
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Peter Mellow
January 11, 2016 10:03 PM
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Extended campus sees initial enrollment spike thanks to a six-part, administer-led strategy.
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