Despite Worries, Big Data Can Be Key For Student Success (NBC News) – Companies and schools are now looking into new ways of understanding individual students’ ways of learning, using big data and learning analytics acquired from students’ computer usage and students’ work in school. Advocates for learning analytics argue that these programs can help disadvantage students lean better.
Harvard Goes All In For Online Courses (The Boston Globe) – Harvard faculty members are beginning to try to make MOOC courses a viable option for interactive learning, committing long hours and a lot of work to make these courses work well.
Mobile Skills MOOC Tipped To Play Key role In Skills Revolution (Training Journal) – The company Qualt has created the first mobile professional skills MOOC app for Android and Apple users. Through the app, users can gain professional skills in an interactive way that motivates the learner with ‘leaderboards’ that shows where individuals are in comparison to their peers.
Staples Pilots In-store 3D Printing Services with 3D Systems (The Var Guy) – Staples, the popular office supply chain store, is implementing a pilot program that gives 3D printing services to small businesses and consumers. Staples is hoping to find out, through this program, whether there is a market for such a service in the US and to gain insight into what the best practices might be.
Student Debt Grows Faster at Universities With Highest-Paid Leaders, Study Finds (The New York Times) – A study from the Institute of Policy Studies shows that at institutions with the highest paid administration, student debt is higher than the average state institution.
