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The Cause That Unites Chief IT and Academic Officers

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FUN SAD FACT: According to Avi Yashchin, Senior Offering Manager at IBM Watson: “Sadness [sentiments] in incoming freshman college application essay is the sixth strongest predictor of dropout.” WHAT DO PROFESSORS WANT FROM LEARNING ANALYTICS? Solution: offer happier prompts?). Terms of the deal were not disclosed.

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” “A Conveyor Belt of Dropouts and Debt at For-Profit Colleges ” by Susan Dynarski. IBM partners with Pearson. OpenEd partners with Pearson. ” “What You Need to Know About Learning Analytics ,” according to The Chronicle of Higher Education.