Facebook Will Predict The Next President - 10 views
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I am not sure where there is direct relevance to Learning Analytics. There is no doubt that mining the public data of social network will be useful for identifying trends, possibly with implications for learning. The big unknown is how reliable is it? Are these networks representative of a population or specific group? I am not convinced of that.
Learning analytics biblio - 9 views
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This is a fairly broad biblio of learning analytics related literature. We should likely take the LAK11 and LAK12 conference submissions and mine the citations to get a sense of how people are defining the analytics space.
What is big data? - O'Reilly Radar - 9 views
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good article for our opening week on trends and factors driving analytics
What Are Your Plans for All That Student Data? | Inside Higher Ed - 10 views
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big student data
Wisdom - A Social Intelligence App for Facebook - 9 views
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example of user-focused analytics tools, built on existing SN systems such as FB/Twitter
Measuring Effectiveness With Learning Analytics - 8 views
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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 ...
New Skills Needed For Big Data (Data Scientists) - Data Science Central - 8 views
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4 min video on how data science is today where computer science was 30 years ago...
Knewton Prepares To Take Education by Storm [TCTV] | TechCrunch - 7 views
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Take the 5 min needed to watch this video - Knewton is the most innovative company in the learning analytics space...
Data Data Everywhere and Not a Drop of Value - 6 views
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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.
The Promise and Peril of Big Data - 8 views
Announcing the School of Data | Open Knowledge Foundation Blog - 6 views
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Today, we're announcing plans for a School of Data. The School will be a joint venture between the Open Knowledge Foundation and Peer 2 Peer University (P2PU). We also welcome other organizations who would like to participate - see below for more on this.
Personalization And Analytics: The Future Of Education? - 6 views
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Alliances...Knewton, adaptive learning, and Pearson, textbook content, team up. Why? "We want to power everyone's content," says Ferreira, CEO, Knewton.
Narrative Science | We Transform Data Into Stories and Insight - 6 views
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one of the problems with unstructured and fragmented data lies in getting a coherent view of what's happening. Automated solutions like this offer one response...
The Pitfalls of Prediction | Digital Tonto - 6 views
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short article arguing that prediction misses the reality of random events that cannot be anticipated as well as human agency in creating futures beyond what we can predict
Learning Analytics and Educational Data Mining - 5 views
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Comparing learning analytics with EDM
U-Sem - Augmented User Modeling - 5 views
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U-Sem in ImREAL [ Augmented User and Context Modeling Infrastructure
Twitter Is Selling Your Old Tweets [REPORT] - 5 views
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I find this rather interesting. Twitter has had trouble building a revenue model. Apparently, in accordance with the mantra that 'data is an asset', Twitter is selling old tweets for analysis (and then for marketing purposes). The twitter stream of the last few years is one of humanity's more interesting data/content creations as it captures ideas, resources, sentiments, and more. a library in 140 characters :)