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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

The idea is to find trends and patterns in huge amounts of historical data and use those patterns to predict the future. He added that the number of students graduating with majors in STEM – science, technology, engineering and math – has doubled since the introduction of predictive analytics. Other vendors do, too.

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

In other STEM news, Pornhub awards a “women in tech” scholarship. The private student loan company has raised $50 million total, but I’m told “fintech” doesn’t “count” as ed-tech so let’s just ignore this trend, right? Because “Pornhub cares.” ” asks Matt Bruenig.

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The Politics of Education Technology

Hack Education

One of the challenges of writing this series – and trust me, there are many – is separating my analysis out into ten articles that name ten distinct “trends.” But when trying to write about ten “trends,” it’s evident: everything overlaps. The politics overlap with privacy.