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YouTube - Authors@Google: Ian Ayres - 0 views

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  • hansdezwart on 17 Jan 11
     
    Ian Ayres visits Google's Mountain View, CA headquarters to discuss his book, "Super Crunchers: Why Thinking-by-Numbers Is the New Way to Be Smart." This event took place on November 8, 2007 as part of the Authors@Google series.
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YouTube - Stephen Wolfram: Computing a theory of everything - 0 views

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    Stephen Wolfram, creator of Mathematica, talks about his quest to make all knowledge computational -- able to be searched, processed and manipulated. His new search engine, Wolfram Alpha, has no lesser goal than to model and explain the physics underlying the universe.
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Datawocky: More data usually beats better algorithms - 0 views

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  • This simple change made Google's ad marketplace much more efficient than Overture's. Notice that the algorithm itself is quite simple; it is the addition of the new data that made the difference.
  • Of course, you have to be judicious in your choice of the data to add to your data set.
  • Tony Searl on 17 Jan 11
     
    But the bigger point is, adding more, independent data usually beats out designing ever-better algorithms to analyze an existing data set. I'm often suprised that many people in the business, and even in academia, don't realize this.
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Wired UK, Barabási Lab and BIG data | blprnt.blg - 0 views

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  • Tony Searl on 16 Jan 11
     
    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.
  • hansdezwart on 17 Jan 11
     
    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.
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A special report on managing information: Data, data everywhere | The Economist - 0 views

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  • hansdezwart on 17 Jan 11
     
    Information has gone from scarce to superabundant. That brings huge new benefits, says Kenneth Cukier (interviewed here)-but also big headaches
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10 ways data is changing how we live - Telegraph - 1 views

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  • Tony Searl on 16 Jan 11
     
    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.
  • hansdezwart on 17 Jan 11
     
    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.
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Nuts and Bolts: How to Evaluate e-Learning by Jane Bozarth : Learning Solutions Magazine - 3 views

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  • 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.
  • Stufflebeam
  • training as part of a system
  • a means of formative as well as summative evaluation.
  • Dianne Rees on 16 Jan 11
     
    Evaluating training: some alternatives to the Kirkpatrick method
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The Ed Techie: Learning Analytics 2011 is the place to be - 2 views

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  • Tony Searl on 16 Jan 11
     
    . 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
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Marginalia: Basic Annotation - BCcampus Communities + Academic Growth - blip.tv - 3 views

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  • hansdezwart on 15 Jan 11
     
    How to create annotations in a Moodle discussion forum.
  • Dianne Rees on 15 Jan 11
     
    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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Learning and health analytics: some common themes | Instructional Design Fusions - 1 views

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  • Dianne Rees on 15 Jan 11
     
    My take on this week's readings and webinar
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Learning_Analytics_Background.pdf (application/pdf Object) - 2 views

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  • Dianne Rees on 11 Jan 11
     
    Some examples of LAK in action
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Sell data and datasets - Infochimps - 1 views

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  • hansdezwart on 15 Jan 11
     
    Infochimps receives thousands of visitors every week hungry for interesting data. Unlock the value of your data by selling it on our open platform. Or put it up for free for public benefit, and get exposure for your work.
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Goodhart's law - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - 1 views

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    Goodhart's law states that once a social or economic indicator or other surrogate measure is made a target for the purpose of conducting social or economic policy, then it will lose the information content that would qualify it to play such a role.
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Cognitive Edge - 1 views

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  • Remember Goodhart's Law - any statistical instrument used for policy looses all value, or loosely translated the minute a measure becomes a target it ceases to be a measure.
  • hansdezwart on 15 Jan 11
     
    Is Goodhart's law relevant when thinking about Learning Analytics
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