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Wired UK, Barabási Lab and BIG data | blprnt.blg - 0 views

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    Which brings us to the underlying point of the piece - we are all leaving digital trails behind us, as we make our way around our individual lives. These trails are largely considered individual - even ethereal - yet technology is making these trails more visible and more readable everyday.
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    Over the last year, I've produced five data-driven pieces for Wired UK. Four of them have been for the two-page infoporn spread that can be found in every issue. I've looked at the UK's National DNA Database, used mined Twitter data to find people's travel paths, and mapped traffic in some of the world's busiest sea ports.
hansdezwart

A special report on managing information: Data, data everywhere | The Economist - 0 views

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    Information has gone from scarce to superabundant. That brings huge new benefits, says Kenneth Cukier (interviewed here)-but also big headaches
hansdezwart

10 ways data is changing how we live - Telegraph - 1 views

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    The majority of the information that we use in our daily lives is "dumb", or unconnected. The next step is "linked data", or data that talks to each other.
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    The availability of new sets of data has changed the way we live our lives: here are 10 examples of data which have changed everything from how we assess wars to how companies deliver milk.
Tony Searl

The Ed Techie: Learning Analytics 2011 is the place to be - 2 views

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    . I think the interesting thing about Learning Analytics is it's one of those areas we think will be important, but we're not quite sure what it is yet, so there's room to explore
hansdezwart

Summify - 0 views

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    Summify automatically identifies the most important news stories for you across all of your social networks and delivers to you a personalized email digest in your inbox.
hansdezwart

What You Want: Flickr Creator Spins Addictive New Web Service | Magazine - 0 views

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    A profile in Wired Magazine of the founder of hunch (and founder of Flickr!): Caterina Fake
hansdezwart

EduFeedr - 2 views

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    EduFeedr is a feed reader for online courses where each participant is using his/her personal blog to publish thoughts on course readings, answers to assignments and other course related posts.
hansdezwart

Reflections on the Knowledge Society » MOOCs - from micro to macro - 0 views

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    The first impressions I have of a venture like this are positive but not without hesitation. I won't conceal it from you that it is less the topic of "learning analytics" that's of interest to me (although I am ready to learn something about this too), but the course itself. This is also where my hesitation lies, but we shall talk more about this later in the course.
Dianne Rees

Nuts and Bolts: How to Evaluate e-Learning by Jane Bozarth : Learning Solutions Magazine - 3 views

  • The linearity and causality implied within the taxonomy (for instance, the assumption that passing a test at Level 2 will result in improved job performance at Level 3) masks the reality of transferring training into measurable results. Many factors enable — or hinder — the transfer of training to on-the-job behavior change, including support from supervisors, rewards for improved performance, culture of the work unit, issues with procedures and paperwork, and political concerns
  • Robert Brinkerhoff takes a systems view of evaluation of training, believing it should focus on sustained performance rather than attempting to isolate the training effort:
  • learn best from the outliers
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  • The method asks evaluators to: Identify individuals or teams that have been most successful in using some new capability or method provided through the training; Document the nature of the success; and Compare to instances of nonsuccess.
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  • training as part of a system
  • a means of formative as well as summative evaluation.
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    Evaluating training: some alternatives to the Kirkpatrick method
hansdezwart

Mapping Our Friendships Over Time and Space: The Future of Social Network Analysis - 0 views

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    What new things could we discover if social network analysis took time and space into account, in addition to the raw connections between people?
hansdezwart

Kynetx - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - 0 views

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    Kynetx, Inc. is a privately-held Platform as a Service (PaaS) company based in Lehi, Utah. It provides a development platform for context automation that is the first of its kind. The platform uses Kynetx Network Services to supply tools to developers to create context-aware applications that can run on a multitude of devices, including browsers, mobile phones, and desktops.
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