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hansdezwart

Signals: Applying Academic Analytics (EDUCAUSE Quarterly) | EDUCAUSE - 0 views

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    Academic analytics helps address the public's desire for institutional accountability with regard to student success, given the widespread concern over the cost of higher education and the difficult economic and budgetary conditions prevailing worldwide. Purdue University's Signals project applies the principles of analytics widely used in business intelligence circles to the problem of improving student success within a course and, hence, improving the institution's retention and graduation rates over time.
hansdezwart

The Grim Threat to British Universities by Simon Head | The New York Review of Books - 0 views

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    The British universities, Oxford and Cambridge included, are under siege from a system of state control that is undermining the one thing upon which their worldwide reputation depends: the caliber of their scholarship. The theories and practices that are driving this assault are mostly American in origin, conceived in American business schools and management consulting firms. They are frequently embedded in intensive management systems that make use of information technology (IT) marketed by corporations such as IBM, Oracle, and SAP. They are then sold to clients such as the UK government and its bureaucracies, including the universities. This alliance between the public and private sector has become a threat to academic freedom in the UK, and a warning to the American academy about how its own freedoms can be threatened.
hansdezwart

Action Analytics: Measuring and Improving Performance That Matters in Higher Education ... - 0 views

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    For the past several years, EDUCAUSE publications have described the emergence of two complementary forces: (1) the growth of "academic analytics" in higher education and the knowledge services needed to support seamless sharing and leveraging of contextualized data/information; and (2) the escalating accountability demands that are driving performance measurement and improvement initiatives. These forces converged in the July/August 2007 issue of EDUCAUSE Review, which showcased their potentially transformative impacts on higher education
Tony Searl

Gates and Pearson Foundations to Offer Online Courses - NYTimes.com - 1 views

  • said the new course materials could provide an important link between the common core standards and the standardized tests that two consortia of states are writing
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      oh noes
  • We could get a one size fits all.”
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      no shit sherlock
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    The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the world's largest philanthropy, and the foundation associated with Pearson, the giant textbook and school technology company, announced a partnership on Wednesday to create online reading and math courses aligned with the new academic standards that some 40 states have adopted in recent months.
Christian D

Academic Analytics: The Uses of Management Information and Technology in Higher Educati... - 0 views

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    "This study analyzes the outcomes at more than 380 higher education institutions. It looks at what the chosen strategies have accomplished, in what ways institutions use the data they collect, whether institutions are investing more resources in tools that enable them to collect and manipulate management information, and the degree to which information and analysis are being used to support institutional decision making."
hansdezwart

Marginalia: Basic Annotation - BCcampus Communities + Academic Growth - blip.tv - 3 views

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    How to create annotations in a Moodle discussion forum.
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    Can also probably use Diigo to do something similar (e.g., via public sticky notes). Always wonder if that's rude though...you don't give the Moodling person (who might not be using Diigo or the annotation tool) the oppt to respond.
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