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Creating a data-informed campus: part 2

EAB

Creating a data-informed campus: part 2. The need for data-informed decision making in higher education continues to increase. As I discussed in the first blog post in this series , institutions need a sufficient technology infrastructure to facilitate curation, access, and retrieval of data.

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These are the top 10 colleges for cybersecurity education

University Business

Since the pandemic, the increased reliance on digital technology, such as virtual meetings and online learning, has created additional pathways enabling bad actors to access confidential student and employee data. The institution offers a range of courses under the umbrella of the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering.

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Virginia Tech’s CEED Program Builds Pipelines to Engineering

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

The four-year graduation rate for students who entered in 2012 was 52.8%. Encouragement Watford inherited one pre-college program that already existed for seventh and eighth graders, providing information about electrical and computer engineering. That rose to 61.2% for students who entered in 2017. It is now called Imagination.

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Technology Enhanced Learning is now at scale

Teaching Matters Online Learning

I first visited Stanford and MIT in 1973 when I was writing computer programs to teach school students algebra. Since then the use of statistics has become much more sophisticated and learners have been offered an increasing variety of ways of using computers to take greater control of their own learning.

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Lecture Recording: What does research say about its effect on attendance?

Teaching Matters Online Learning

Others argue that the correlation between lecture attendance and performance is weak at best (Horton, Wiederman, & Saint, 2012; Walbeek, 2004). It is difficult to draw just one conclusion from the research I have read. The studies are usually small-scale with data from one course, and correlation does not equal causation.

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ChatGPTeaching or ChatGPCheating? Arguments from a semester with large language models in class (Part 1)

Teaching Matters Online Learning

Like with previous computational techniques attached to educational purposes (computer-aided design, spellcheck, text prediction, Wikipedia articles, search engines), Generative AI applications’ use in education carries all bias bugs baggage of algorithmic persuasion and convincing power (Little Britain: “the computer says no!”)

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With ChatGPT, we must teach students to be editors (opinion)

Confessions of a Community College Dean

As a composition instructor and sometime creative writer, I admit to being stung by the email informing me “that we’re making some changes to our content priorities and production volume, and unfortunately, we won’t be able to offer you hours after this week.” Why not rely on help from technology?