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Learning Analytics 2018 – An updated perspective

IAD Learning

Learning analytics has been a hot topic for a while in the education industry. Not by chance, learning analytics and all its related technologies (measuring learning, artificial intelligence, adaptive learning, personalized learning, etc.) Taking action is the ultimate goal of any learning analytics process.

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A charter chain thinks it has the answer for alternative schools

The Hechinger Report

What you learn in a regular high school in a year, you could learn here in six months.”. What you learn in a regular high school in a year, you could learn here in six months.” . Students spend 80 percent of their time learning from home. This [place] gives you the opportunity to graduate faster,” he said.

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Facing a white-collar worker shortage, American companies seek a blue-collar solution

The Hechinger Report

The dean’s list student ended up a college dropout, a gay 20-something cut off from his parents after coming out, and working at a UPS Store in a job he described as “retail drudgery” while running up credit card debt and stringing out his college loans. Department of Labor to promote on-the-job learning. Credit: Juawana Allen.

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Overdue tuition and fees — as little as $41 — derail hundreds of thousands of California community college students

The Hechinger Report

Other times, they’ve paid tuition in full, but owe money for overdue parking, library or housing fees. She struggled with online learning and began to face severe health issues. The campus has lost more than 8,000 students since 2018-2019, with enrollment dropping from 33,500 to 25,000.

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Four Reasons Why Students Don’t Receive the Degrees They’ve Earned

Edsurge

What have we learned that can make a difference for the next folks coming through?” In keeping with that mindset, some education leaders refer to lost students as “stopouts” rather than “dropouts.” When the program started in fall 2018, 56 students—with an average age of 39—came back to campus. What are the lessons here?

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A year of personalized learning: Mistakes, moving furniture and making it work

The Hechinger Report

SAN DIEGO — Vista High School principal Anthony Barela had a vivid image of what school here could look like after a $10 million grant to reimagine learning: Rolling desks and chairs, with students moving freely and talking about their work. We’re literally learning as we go along. Future of Learning. Mississippi Learning.

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Colleges are using big data to track students in an effort to boost graduation rates, but it comes at a cost

The Hechinger Report

In meetings with his academic adviser during the second semester of his freshman year, Robinson said he learned that though his GPA was solid, the school’s computer algorithm saw trouble. For more stories about education, opportunity, and how people learn subscribe to the Educate podcast. It wasn’t always this way.

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