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Interesting and easy to read piece on why predictive analytics can be beaten by knowledge on the ground and what we can learn from data and measurement error.

More predictions on the possibly imminent GDrive.

Useful post.

five experts - Times Higher Education online article - views include those of the head of JISC in the Uk

Postcards from 1910 France predicting life in 2000. Some great education ones!

Not sure how much faith I'd put in these but useful to know what is being touted.

"And here's the thing: we still don't. We never do. We have never been good at predicting the future, and so raising and educating our kids as if we have any idea what the future will hold is not the smartest notion."

"Sarah believes that in the present, education is at something of a turning point in its relationship with technology, so here she sketches out some predictions for the future to help you stay ahead"

Post on the vision for the OLPC3 due 2012

"Which of the following predictions about the future of libraries were made by university administrators? Within five years, libraries will focus exclusively on electronic resources Academic computing and libraries will merge. Librarians who do not produce will be reassigned or fired. The library will only house materials that are actively used. Libraries will shrink, in both collection size and staffing, and funding will be redirected from libraries to more critical and productive areas of the university." Sound familiar?

"Universities that are forced to get by on dwindling budgets will drive a revolution in information technology, the next president of Universities UK has predicted."

"'We found no evidence for any discontinuity in technology use around the age of 30 as would be predicted by the Net Generation and Digital Natives hypothesis,' says the report. What the reseachers do find interesting and worthy of further study is the correlation--which is independent of age--between attitudes to technology and approaches to studying. In short, students who more readily use technology for their studies are more likely than others to be deeply engaged with their work."

That last point is pretty powerful. Need to get the data replicated elsewhere as next stage. But as always, different people are different!

Interesting use of Inkling market prediction software to poll website vistors. More information at http://markets.nitle.org/

"The most alarming finding in the ERIAL studies was perhaps the most predictable: when it comes to finding and evaluating sources in the Internet age, students are downright lousy."

Excellent piece on the meta-rhetoric surrounding the demise of (Thrun's) Moocs.

Following #mootau15 & @vmarchant's session on #retention using @Jeanette_242's #completion #research http://t.co/qWBEUM3WsA looks useful.

Following #mootau15 & @vmarchant's session on #retention using @Jeanette_242's #completion #research http://t.co/qWBEUM3WsA looks useful.

Interesting post on the future and mainstreaming of the social function online