By Avi Asher-Schapiro. By now, big data and learning analytics are familiar buzz words for anyone working in higher education. Thanks to student information systems (SIS) like Banner and Blackboard, universities collect an ever increasing volume of data about campus life and student performance. But knowing what data to collect and leveraging it for better outcomes is not always easy. More...
By Tracy Mitrano. Those are Monica Lewinsky’s words in summary about her “affair” with President William Jefferson Clinton. In a Vanity Fair article, due out tomorrow, she claims that the Tyler Clementi incident – no, let me rephrase, the suicide of 18 year old freshman college student, Tyler Clementi, due to the humiliation, one assumes, from the exposure of his same-sex experience filmed by his not-thinking-it-through-to-say-the-least and oh-how-that-young-man-and-his-family-have-paid-for-the-lapse-in-thought-too -- drove him to take his life by forcing a fall from the George Washington Bridge. Exposure amplified by the Internet. Read more...
By John Warner. Champions of MOOCs and the other disruptionists mean to tear down whatever is worth saving in the name of efficiency. That which can be turned into a product and sold will be. I think their vision of higher education is wrong, dangerous and immoral even, a guarantee of cementing existing inequality. I would lament this even more if it weren’t something like probable that education isn’t the engine to reduce inequality anyway. Read more...
By Rosemarie Emanuele. A few years ago, I reviewed a book about Statistics that proposed what were actually some pretty radical ideas. Noting that data had more to tell us than could be found from just hypothesis tests about what a “true mean” might be, it presented a whole new way of looking at data, one that intrigued me and often finds its way into my statistics courses. I was particularly interested in the fact that the author used a quote on the first page of the text, a quote from the scientist Carl Sagan. I found myself thinking of this in the last few months as I have been glued to the TV watching episodes of the re-make of the series originally presented by Carl Sagan. It was, and is, called “Cosmos”. Read more...
By Eric Stoller. There are so many places to publish content on the web. If you're interested in writing and cultivating your craft, the web remains the easiest place to "get your blog on." 
By Sang-Mook Lee. I am a Korean marine geophysicist who became quadriplegic (spinal cord injury with complete injury on cervical bone number four) as a result of a van rollover accident during a geological field trip in California almost 9 years ago (July 2, 2006). I am completely paralyzed from the neck down. Read more...
By Katie Shives. It’s no secret that sometimes in graduate school it feels like everything can get really chaotic. As young professionals, we are expected to produce new research and ideas while taking courses, keeping up with committee meetings, and even teaching classes to other students, and it can easily become overwhelming. While we can never truly control our environments, we can learn to grow through them and make continued progress. Read more...By Erin Bedford. Dear new grad student,
By Joshua Kim. Online advertising is terrible.
Not terrible in the sense that it is too bad that we have too much online advertising. Rather, online advertising is terrible because the ads are terrible.
The poor quality of online ads is not the online problem with streaming commercials, according to an interesting article, The Great Unwatched, in the NYTimes. It turns out that many streaming ads that are purchased by adverstisers are never even watched because of poor placement and fraud. Read more...
By Joshua Kim. ZenDesk announced today its plans for its an initial public offering (IPO) that would value the company at around $632 million. The company hopes to raise about about $90 million in its IPO. ZenDesk provides a cloud based Web / mobile help desk and customer self-service platform. Read more...
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