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
What is big data? - O'Reilly Radar - 9 views
What Are Your Plans for All That Student Data? | Inside Higher Ed - 10 views
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
The Promise and Peril of Big Data - 8 views
Learning Analytics and Educational Data Mining - 5 views
U-Sem - Augmented User Modeling - 5 views
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 :)