The education ministry has entrusted the Directorate of Education with the creation of a database containing general job descriptions and their requirements. The objective is to provide access for those who might have interest in the great amount of data that exists on legally certified professions. Stakeholders that might be interested to this database include vocational upper secondary schools, employers, career counsellors, students and parents. More...
IRS, ED statement about the IRS Data Retrieval Tool
Submitted by Stefanie Botelho. The IRS Data Retrieval Tool on fafsa.gov and StudentLoans.gov is currently unavailable. We are working to resolve the issue as quickly as possible. However, at this time, the IRS anticipates the online data tool will be unavailable for several weeks. More...
Irretrievable Aid Data
By Andrew Kreighbaum. College access advocates scramble as Trump administration says IRS tool designed to simplify student aid process could be unavailable for several weeks. Read more...
The Ethics of Sharing Predictive Analytics
By Scott Jaschik. Should students be told what the data predict about their chances of success? Corporate leaders in predictive analytics business consider the issue posed by an Inside Higher Ed blogger. Read more...
How data analytics can bring out the best in a university
Techno-News Blog. New systems of data analytics can equip college campuses to set and reach goals for student achievement, operational efficiency, and financial stability, Ed Tech: Focus on Higher Ed reported — but the first step in harnessing these benefits is understanding concepts of implementation and execution. More...Will You Graduate? Ask Big Data
Techno-News Blog. At Georgia State’s nursing school, the faculty used to believe that students who got a poor grade in “Conceptual Foundations of Nursing” probably wouldn’t go on to graduation. More...UW class on how to spot fake data goes viral within hours
Techno-News Blog. Two University of Washington professors are taking aim at BS in a provocatively named new course they hope to teach this spring. The professors would like to push the course materials online — teaching it as a MOOC, for example, a freely available course taught over the web. More...Largest Coalition of Coding Bootcamps to Publish Data on Job Outcomes
Techno-News Blog. Fifteen coding bootcamps, or accelerated computer programming programs, have formed a new coalition and announced their commitment to publish student graduation and job placement data in a single, standardized framework. More...Appel à vigilance sur le démarchage commercial lié au Datadock
Certaines sociétés proposent par téléphone, courrier ou message électronique leur « aide » pour établir la déclaration dans le Datadock contre rémunération. Un lecteur inattentif peut considérer qu'il s'agit d'une démarche obligatoire ou liée aux financeurs.
L'Afdas attire l'attention des organismes de formation sur le caractère purement commercial de ces offres et souligne qu’il convient d’en mesurer toutes les conséquences, notamment financières, avant d’y répondre. Voir l'article...
Enriching the Web of Data with Educational Information Using We-Share
This paper presents We-Share, a social annotation application that enables educators to publish and retrieve information about educational ICT tools. As a distinctive characteristic, We-Share provides educators data about educational tools already available on the Web of Data while allowing them to enrich such data with their experience using technology in the classroom. More...