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Personalization And Analytics: The Future Of Education? - 6 views

www.fastcoexist.com/...lytics-the-future-of-education
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  • Dana West on 22 Feb 12
     
    Alliances...Knewton, adaptive learning, and Pearson, textbook content, team up. Why? "We want to power everyone's content," says Ferreira, CEO, Knewton.
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Measuring Effectiveness With Learning Analytics - 8 views

clomedia.com/...1 learning analytics LMS THINQ
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    CLO magazine, 2005, written by Chris Moore, Zeroed-In Technologies, post-THINQ and TrainingServer. Defines learning analytics as "... the study of the impact of learning on its learners." This is an industry take on the term/practice, which focuses on learning effectiveness and operational excellence. Current solutions include visual dashboards for managing talent and measuring education initiatives/including 'strategic/tactical scorecards'. Saying all the right things to HR/VPs ...
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Are There Enough Data Scientists to Go Around? - 2 views

www.enterpriseappstoday.com/...a-scientists-to-go-around.html data science analytics
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    "Data science is not your father's BI..." and "data scientists are the rock stars of the future" ... Another plug for a career in analytics.
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Oscar Senti-meter - 2 views

graphics.latimes.com/senti-meter semantic analysis
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    Analytics meets the Academy Awards...The "People's Oscar" tool co-developed by the L.A. Times, IBM and the University of Southern California Annenberg Innovation Lab analyzes Twitter opinions about who's going to win Academy Awards. An 'entertaining' example of how semantic analysis is performed on large set of unstructured data/tweets.
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Data Data Everywhere and Not a Drop of Value - 6 views

bryce.vc/...ywhere-and-not-a-drop-of-value analytics big data
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    "Here's the thing. Data, big, medium or small, has no value in and of itself. The value of data is unlocked through context and presentation." And others will argue for 'actionable' data. Data beauty is in the eye of the beholder. A VC's take on analytics.
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IBM's new CEO sees gold in data mining | Marketplace from American Public Media - 2 views

www.marketplace.org/...-new-ceo-sees-gold-data-mining business analytics BAO IBM and analytics
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    One word? Analytics.
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Learning Analytics and Educational Data Mining - 5 views

erikduval.wordpress.com/...cs-and-educational-data-mining learning analytics educational data mining
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    Comparing learning analytics with EDM
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What Are Your Plans for All That Student Data? | Inside Higher Ed - 10 views

www.insidehighered.com/...re-your-plans-all-student-data learning analytics analytics LAK2012
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    big student data
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