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Tony Searl

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

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  • 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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      Tony Searl on 28 Apr 11
       
      oh noes
  • We could get a one size fits all.”
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      Tony Searl on 28 Apr 11
       
      no shit sherlock
  • Tony Searl on 28 Apr 11
     
    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.
hansdezwart

News: Technology and the Completion Agenda - Inside Higher Ed - 0 views

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technology education news data analytics agenda lak11 suggested week1

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  • hansdezwart on 12 Jan 11
     
    Data analytics is shorthand for the method of warehousing, organizing, and interpreting the massive amounts of data accrued by online learning platforms and student information systems - now as elemental to higher education as classrooms and filing cabinets - in hopes of learning more about what makes students successful, then giving instructors (and the platforms themselves) the chance to nudge those students accordingly.
hansdezwart

EduFeedr - 2 views

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  • hansdezwart on 12 Jan 11
     
    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

Deciphering the social media genome: Toward an ecology of social roles in online collab... - 2 views

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social nodexl networking week3 lak11

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  • hansdezwart on 23 Jan 11
     
    These, and other similar projects, promise the emergence of a new social and theoretical paradigm whose goal is to decipher the web of social interactions generated by social media.
Tony Searl

U. of Texas Adopts Plan to Publish Performance Data on Professors and Campuses - Facult... - 2 views

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shared by Tony Searl on 29 Aug 11 - No Cached
  • help ensure that taxpayers are getting their money's worth
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      Tony Searl on 29 Aug 11
       
      as I attempted to raise during LAK11, intent is critical. If LAK is primarily accountability driven, then more complex outcomes available IF questioning of data is deeper, may be missed (or ignored/buried/not sought)
  • Among other things, the system will report such factors as research expenditures, publications, teaching evaluations, and external support.
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      Tony Searl on 29 Aug 11
       
      myschool is already developing into such a site. Insightful LAK, with holistic intention, not narow agendas, is preferable. Metrics, data, inclusions and questions need bipartisan support IF education is to be apolitical.
  • That was a swipe at the Texas Public Policy Foundation, a conservative think tank supported by Gov. Rick Perry that has advocated a controversial blueprint known as the "Seven Solutions" to higher education
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      Tony Searl on 29 Aug 11
       
      Perry, potential president? Fascinating 2012 election
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  • It also calls for a review system in which outside experts analyze the performance of individual colleges within the system's universities.
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      Tony Searl on 29 Aug 11
       
      intent, questions asked, data deemed inclusive, all crucial for LAK outcomes. Enormous potential for misrepresentations exist IF analytics is poorly conceived and managed.
  • Mr. Powell said the database would allow students, parents, legislators, and others to easily examine detailed data about how different campuses and departments performed.
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      Tony Searl on 29 Aug 11
       
      exact definition of intent of our 2 year old myschool data
  • Tony Searl on 29 Aug 11
     
    The plan unveiled on Thursday designates money to create a "dashboard"-an interactive, online database-to give students, parents, and legislators access to detailed measures of departments' and colleges' productivity and efficiency. Data on individual professors will probably also be included, although Dr. Cigarroa stressed that each campus would be able to develop its own system of metrics and the details have not yet been worked out
Vanessa Vaile

Daily Kos: UPDATED: The HB Gary Email That Should Concern Us All - 0 views

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  • According to an embedded MS Word document found in one of the HBGary emails, it involves creating an army of sockpuppets, with sophisticated "persona management" software that allows a small team of only a few people to appear to be many, while keeping the personas from accidentally cross-contaminating each other. Then, to top it off, the team can actually automate some functions so one persona can appear to be an entire Brooks Brothers riot online.
  • Using the assigned social media accounts we can automate the posting of content that is relevant to the persona.
  •  There are a variety of social media tricks we can use to add a level of realness to all fictitious personas
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  • Really? I thought. How do we know if those are real people? Twitter has to be the easiest thing to fake and to automate with retweets and 180 characrer max sentences. To the extent that the propaganda technique known as "Bandwagon" is an effective form of persuasion, which it definitely is, the ability for a few people to infiltrate a blog or social media site and appear to be many people, all taking one position in a debate, all agreeing, for example, that so and so is not credible, or a crook, is an incredibly powerful weapon.
  • I believe there are many people though who will base their judgment on rumors and mob attacks. And for those people, a fake mob can be really effective.
hansdezwart

Insurers Test Data Profiles to Identify Risky Clients - WSJ.com - 0 views

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insurance profiling lak11 week1 datamining

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  • hansdezwart on 12 Jan 11
     
    Life insurers are testing an intensely personal new use for the vast dossiers of data being amassed about Americans: predicting people's longevity.
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