By Alex Usher. The UK’s Higher Education Statistics Agency (also known in these parts as “the other HESA”) put out an interesting report recently on participation in higher education in England (available here). More...
9 octobre 2016
8 octobre 2016
4 ways higher education is smartening up when it comes to data
By Robert Dolan Jr. Colleges and universities are home to the most advanced thinking and research in all fields: medicine, law, mathematics, business and beyond. More...
8 octobre 2016
University dramatically rethinks data to boost online retention
By Andrew Barbour. Open-access Strayer University is using student-engagement metrics to identify at-risk students—and to improve the quality of its courses and teaching overall. More...
8 octobre 2016
A common ground proposal to improve higher ed data
Submitted by Stefanie Botelho. This month, millions of students will head off to college hoping to earn the skills and degrees they need to secure well-paying jobs in today’s economy. More...
8 octobre 2016
Higher education's turn to big data for 'healthy' change
Submitted by Ray Bendici. Fifteen years ago, the world of healthcare came to grips with dilemma that inspired real change. In global health, data began to upend longstanding assumptions that shaped policy, practice, and funding. More...3 octobre 2016
Data shows positive impact of African diaspora fellows
By Mary Beth Marklein. A higher education initiative that taps the African diaspora in North America as a way to reverse the effects of brain drain on the continent seeks to expand amid signs that it has had a positive and sustainable impact, new data shows. Read more...
30 septembre 2016
Les chercheurs français pourront désormais pratiquer pleinement la fouille de texte et de données
A l'occasion de l'adoption définitive par le Sénat du projet de loi pour une République Numérique, Thierry Mandon, secrétaire d'Etat chargé de l'Enseignement supérieur et de la Recherche, se réjouit que les mesures relatives à la fouille de texte et de données (text and data mining - T.D.M.) soient désormais inscrites dans le droit français. Voir l'article...
30 septembre 2016
Weapons of Math Destruction: The Dark Side of Big Data
By Barbara Fister. Big data is being secretly wielded in ways that increase inequality and unaccountability, and a former quant can tell you want it all means – most entertainingly. Read more...
27 septembre 2016
The Big Opportunity in Data Analytics
Higher Ed Tech News and Research ~ Ray Schroeder, editor. If knowledge is power, as Francis Bacon suggested, its supporting partner would undoubtedly be information. The kind of information that, in today’s world, can connect complex reams of disparate and often isolated data, and can help support better decision making and better outcomes. More...
26 septembre 2016
Universities use big data to improve graduation rates
Graduation rates across the country have not improved over the past decade. But now, post-secondary institutions are turning to big data analysis to help them find the students most at risk of dropping out. Financial pressures are forcing them to take action, writes Simona Chiose for The Globe and Mail. Read more...
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