La base de données Sirene vous permettra d’accéder à de nombreuses informations mises à jour concernant les entreprises répertoriées (10 millions d’établissements) en France : statut juridique, secteur d’activité, localisation… Cette base de données est gérée par l’Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques (Insee). Voir l'article...
This week, we are publishing the annual data for nearly three-quarters of a million BTEC qualifications taken in the past academic year. More...
By Meris Stansbury. When institutions use student data, it’s usually internally and to overhaul or make adjustments to campus services year-to-year. More...
By Tim Goral. Data can be a beautiful thing. It can reveal patterns, failures and sometimes, surprises—as long as the measurements are consistent. At Prince George’s Community College that wasn’t the case. Each class was measuring different things, so campus leaders couldn’t quite see the big picture. More...
By Heather VanMouwerik. Every book we read, every source we mine, and every number we collect has a history, has a life that precedes us and will continue long after we are gone. It is easy to forget this when we are frantically collecting materials for our dissertation. Read more...
By Andrew Kreighbaum and Ashley A. Smith. Graduates who earned certificates at public institutions have larger salaries, but there is wide variation between programs even at the same institutions. Read more...
Higher Ed Tech News and Research ~ Ray Schroeder, editor. Seventy-seven percent of college students think schools should do a better job of using their personal data to improve the college experience, according to a new survey from Ellucian. More...
By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Citizen scientists now do more than collect data
Layne Cameron, Futurity, 2016/10/05
I've always felt that there is a huge learning opportunity here. "The nature of citizen science is changing; citizens aren’t simply used solely for data collection,” says Steven Gray. More...
By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. On metadata
Daniel Lemire, 2016/11/15
Daniel Lemire is exactly right in this article, and we forget it at our peril: "Most metadata is unreliable. Maintaining high-quality data is simply hard work. And even when people have good intentions, it takes more mental acuity than you might think." And the system is not set up for it. More...
The UNESCO Institute for Lifelong Learning (UIL) is pleased to avail data on the third Global Report on Adult Learning and Education (GRALE III) to scholars and practitioners for research purposes. It hopes these data will prove useful in furthering our collective understanding of adult learning and education. More...
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