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3 Ways Big Data Can Soften the Campus Dropout Crisis

EdNews Daily

And like any major problem, this mass exodus of dropouts must be addressed sooner rather than later through innovative interventions. Even online schools, where data can be more available due to vibrant learning management systems, are guilty of merely scratching the surface of data capture and analysis. Bob La Loggia.

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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

Georgia State’s analytics system color codes a student’s risk of dropping out and Robinson’s file was showing yellow, a sign that his plan to go into nursing was risky. Companies like Amazon and Netflix have been using data tools like these for years to track our clicks and steer us to buy or watch more of their products.

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Learning Analytics 2018 – An updated perspective

IAD Learning

Analysis : Analysis is the process of adding intelligence to data using algorithms. Data comes from many sources : Student Information Systems (SIS) : provide demographic and academic data. Learning Management Systems (LMS): provide students’ activity records as well as students’ performance information.

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What is an intelligent learning platform for schools and universities?

Neo LMS

Students have continued pursuing their studies despite prolonged lockdowns through platforms such as learning management systems (LMSs) and video conferencing software. Today, edtech companies are actively working on taking digitization even further by converting the traditional LMS into an intelligent learning platform (ILP).

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How one district went all-in on a tutoring program to catch kids up

The Hechinger Report

Last year, researchers at NWEA, an independent nonprofit assessment company, published an analysis of data from the autumn 2020 MAP Growth tests of more than 4 million public school students. So systems are really trying to figure out, ‘How do we do that?’ ”. “It’s not something we’re going to make up in a summer or in a year.

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Subscribing to college and other visions of higher education’s future

The Hechinger Report

Forty-nine percent subscribe to product delivery plans , from meal kits to shaving supplies to media, including streaming and music platforms, according to the consulting firm McKinsey & Company. SNHU, in a collaboration with the education company Pearson, is testing AI grading. Unlike transcripts, I.L.R.s

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How a Billionaire’s Fellowship Spread Skepticism About College’s Value

Edsurge

Instead of paying money to support people to go to college, this program would pay people to forgo college and instead jump right into building an ambitious company or organization. Because as he’s said publicly many times, he feels the higher education system has what he sees as an irrational following, like a religion.

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