How to fix higher ed
While the worst-case scenarios regarding the future of higher education as discussed during the height of COVID-19 have thankfully not come to pass, there are still plenty of…
Learning Analytics
How Stanford is using analytics to detect fraud and abuse
How do you identify fraud, waste, and abuse when your procurement office handles more than a million transactions a year and $2.2 billion in disbursements? Manually, if you're…
Data analytics initiative aims to increase retention
McGraw-Hill Education, a learning science company, and ZogoTech, a provider of predictive data analytics services to higher education institutions, have entered into an agreement providing McGraw-Hill Education exclusive…
Trend: Online learning going personal
In a recent online learning panel, innovative institutions that have achieved measurable success in their online learning programs waxed poetic on how harnessing technology to bolster personalized learning…
Campus Management launches Retention360 for higher education
Campus Management Corp., a provider of enterprise software solutions and services for higher education, has released Retention360™, powered by CampusNexus, an innovative Retention-as-a-Service (RaaS) offering. The subscription-based student…
Students speak up about learning analytics
Students' desire for instant feedback, such as the kind they receive through social media, could be a significant asset when it comes to studying with the help of…
Goldi(IT) and the Three Bears: A tale of finding the right storage tool for the data job
Data analytics has become commonplace on college campuses as universities have developed into repositories for all sorts of data focusing on everything from student success and recruitment, to…
Can predictive analytics ID “likelihood to thrive” on campus?
vibeffect, a family-centered college-decision framework that helps students identify campuses where they’re most likely to thrive, has published a scientifically peer-reviewed paper on how predictive analytics can determine…
3 ways to bring online learning back to life
Is educating students online looking more and more like a scene from “The Walking Dead?” More specifically, is online learning becoming a lifeless learning model, devoid of human…