By Ellen Wexler. The Maryland Board of Regents on Friday approved the University of Maryland University College’s request to create a for-profit business-intelligence company. The new company will offer data-analysis technology and services to universities across the country, and the revenue will go toward the university’s endowment. More...
By Phil Hill. Russ Poulin at WCET has a handy summary of the new College Scorecard produced by the Education Department (ED) and the White House. This is a “first read” given the scorecard’s Friday release, but it is quite valuable since Russ participated on an ED Data Panel related to the now-abandoned Ratings System, the precursor to the Scorecard. More...
By . You might remember that a little over a year ago, President Obama came up with the idea for the US Government to “rate” colleges on things like affordability, graduation rates, graduate earnings and the like. The thinking was that this kind of transparency would punish institutions that provided genuinely bad value for money by exposing said poor value to the market, while at the same encouraging all institutions to become more attentive to costs and outcomes. More...
Pôle emploi a choisi de s'associer à la démarche globale d'ouverture des données publiques (Open Data), initiée par l'Etat. Il propose une série de données telles que les statistiques du marché du travail, les chiffres de l'intérim, le ROME (Répertoire Opérationnel des Métiers et des Emplois), etc.
Pôle emploi, août 2015. En savoir plus : http://www.pole-emploi.org/informations/open-data-pole-emploi-@/22314/view-category-22274.html. Voir l'article...
By Troy Williams. The era of big data in higher education has arrived. However, it’s important for campuses to figure out how to properly capture, manage, and use this data wisely in order to improve student outcomes and retention at their institution. More...
By . Over the next five years, the University of Michigan will invest $100 million in a new Data Science Initiative intended to help better connect students and faculty researchers to data science and the study of big data’s implications for society. More...
Nearly 80,000 students on eight California State University System campuses have had their data breached, The Los Angeles Times reported. Read more...
It will be difficult to understand and ultimately improve the performance of American higher education without a better data infrastructure, and a federal student-level data system would be the best method for producing such data, a report from the Institute for Higher Education Policy argues. Read more...
By Stefanie Botelho. The University of Michigan over five years will invest $100M in a big data initiative with researchers seeking insights in four targeted areas—healthcare, learning analytics, social sciences and transportation. More...
EUCLID is a European project facilitating professional training for data practitioners, who aim to use Linked Data in their daily work. EUCLID delivers a curriculum implemented as a combination of living learning materials and activities (eBook series, webinars, face‐to‐face training), validated by the user community through continuous feedback. More...
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