Par L'Atelier de l'Emploi. Gilles Babinet, expert de l'économie numérique, a publié un ouvrage sur le Big Data. Il nous explique les bouleversements organisationnels qu'implique l'exploitation des mégadonnées dans les entreprises. Suite...
By Kristin Kennedy - EvoLLLution. I went to college and I had a great experience. I went to a college in another state, my parents paid for almost all of it and I basically came out of college with very little debt—quite a success story by today’s standards, it would seem. More...
The League of European Research Universities (LERU) expresses serious concerns at amendments made by the European Parliament to the European General Data Protection Regulation and calls upon the Council of Ministers to oppose the amendments that would be highly detrimental for scientific research. Read more...
By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Manu Sporny
Manu Sporny, YouTube, 2015/03/11
This is a YouTube channel with a set of resources about linked data (LD) in JSON. If that sentence makes no sense to you at all, you can safely skip this resource. More...
By Peter Smith - EvoLLLution. While some forward-thinking public and non-profit colleges and universities experimented with flexible, experimental and student-centered approaches to education in their early days, proprietary institutions were first to the punch. More...
By . The deal we have struck with the information society over the extent to which our lives are shaped and our privacy invaded requires urgent renegotiation. Read more...
Academics on the job market pay a lot of attention to disciplinary societies’ job listings, but just how useful are those data? Are they really an accurate snapshot of the market? A new analysis posted on the American Academy of Arts and Sciences Data Forum and accompanying commentary from Ronald G. Ehrenberg, the Irving M. Ives Professor of Industrial and Labor Relations and Economics and director of the Higher Education Research Institute at Cornell University, suggest that they are. Read more...
The National Student Clearinghouse Research Center this week released state-level student completion data. The nonprofit center tracked 2.7 million students who first enrolled in college in the fall of 2008, following them for 6 years. The report builds on the center's previous research, which found more encouraging graduation rates than other studies had identified. Read more...
By Jennifer Howard. A deadly virus arrives in America, carried by travelers from abroad. Health officials scramble to contain the threat, imposing quarantines and other strict measures even as they seek to reassure the public.
By Elaine Mendoza. It is encouraging to see higher education became a priority as we move into the 2015 legislative session. The 2011 funding cuts were perplexing. After all, 2010 was a very good year for Higher Education in Texas. Against the backdrop of diversification of the state’s economy requiring a more post-secondary educated workforce, enrollments in higher education institutions were up. In particular, Texas saw the state’s highest enrollment of Hispanics ever. Significant progress and success at last. More...
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