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EDUCAUSE Library Items for Data Mining
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Big Data for Education: Data Mining, Data Analytics, and Web Dashboards
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September 13, 2012
In this Brookings Institution report, author Darrell West, examines the potential for improved research, evaluation, and accountability through data mining, data analytics, and web dashboards. …
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Enhancing Teaching and Learning Through Educational Data Mining and Learning Analytics
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April 10, 2012
This issue brief describes data analytics and data mining in the commercial world and how similar techniques (learner analytics and educational data mining) are starting to be applied in educatio…
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Can Big Data Help Universities Tackle Security, BYOD?
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July 31, 2012
Universities have some of the most complex IT infrastructures around, and BYOD is a reality they can't escape. Chief Security Officers at universities are increasingly turning to Big Data an…
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The Future of Big Data
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July 20, 2012
This report, The Future of Big Data , from The Pew Research Center's Internet & American Life Project, surveyed internet experts and users on the collection and use of Big Data in the…
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The State of Learning Analytics in 2012: A Review and Future Challenges
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March 20, 2012
Author Rebecca Ferguson from the Open University's Knowledge Media Institute, provides a detailed look at the history of Learning Analytics research. "This review of the field begins…
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Big Data's Arrival
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February 6, 2012
This article from Inside Higher Ed by Paul Fain describes a WECT research project tracking students taking online courses. The research shows how tracking certain variables proves the usefulness…
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Colleges Mine Data to Tailor Students' Experience
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December 12, 2011
"Educators have long held that the interactions between students and professors defy simple reduction. Yet in several areas of campus life, colleges are converting the student experience in…
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Big data: The next frontier for innovation, competition, and productivity
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June 3, 2011
According to research by MGI and McKinsey's Business Technology Office, analyzing large data sets—so called big data—will become a key basis of competition, underpinning new waves of pr…
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Long-Lived Digital Data Collections: Enabling
Research and Education in the 21st Century
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January 1, 2005
The primary purpose of this report is to frame the issues and to begin a broad discourse. Specifically, the NSB and NSF working together – with each fulfilling its respective responsibilities –…
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A Framework For Internet Archeology: Discovering Use Patterns in Digital Library and Web–based Information Resources
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January 1, 2005
Archeologists use artifacts to make statements about occupants of a physical space. Users of information resources leave behind data–based artifacts when they interact with a digital library or o…

















