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As Colleges Move Away From the SAT, Will Admissions Algorithms Step In?

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A Boston Globe analysis of more than 100 high school valedictorians from the classes of 2005 to 2007 found that 25 percent didn’t get a bachelor’s degree within six years. What the machine can do that human beings can’t do is look at thousands of inputs,” says Matt Guenin, CCO at ElectrifAi, a machine learning analytics company.

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Tonight - A True History of the MOOC

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

He has published numerous articles both online and in print, including The Future of Online Learning (1998), Learning Objects (2000), Resource Profiles (2003), and E-Learning 2.0 He is a popular speaker, appearing at hundreds of events around the world over the last fifteen years.

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The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade

Hack Education

Course Signals, a software product developed by Purdue University, was designed to boost “student success” by using learning analytics to inform teachers, students, and staff to potential problems, labeling students with a red/yellow/green scheme to indicate their danger in failing a course. Course Signals. They want the bundle.

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Ed-Tech in a Time of Trump

Hack Education

One of the “hot new trends” in education technology is “learning analytics” – this idea that if you collect enough data about students that you can analyze it and in turn algorithmically direct students towards more efficient and productive behaviors, institutions towards more efficient and productive outcomes.

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

” [Insert Course Signals learning analytics joke here.]. The map draws on only 100,000 articles from 180 journals and only dates back to 2005 because that is the grand sum of education technology research. I really don’t understand how the investment analysis firm categorizes ed-tech. Elsewhere: “U.S.