Archive for October, 2009
About a week into any class at Rio Salado College, officials can make a pretty good guess as to which students will succeed and which ones will not. The Arizona community college, where more than half of the 64,000 students pursue their degrees online, has devised a system of predictive modeling that officials believe can [...]
Attendees of Educause 2009 can see tangible evidence of Administrative and Academic Application and Technology Trends
WASHINGTON, DC (Tuesday, October 27th, 2009) – The Gilfus Education Group announced its annual predictions today, foreshadowing major concepts on the horizon for administrative and academic applications, content and technologies.
CDC H1N1 Flu |CDC Guidance for Responses to Influenza for Institutions of Higher Education during the 2009-2010 Academic Year
Intelligent Learning Platform concept from Gilfus Education Group core to Datatel and Moodlerooms Strategy. Read the white paper at: http://www.gilfuseducationgroup.com/white-papers/enterprise-education-platform
Applying Academic Analytics
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Applying the principles of business intelligence analytics to academia promises to improve student success, retention, and graduation rates and demonstrate institutional accountability. The Signals project at Purdue University has delivered early successes in academic analytics, prompting additional projects and new strategies. Significant challenges remain before the predictive nature of academic analytics meets its full potential. [...]
Moodlerooms, Inc., leading provider of a secure and scalable enterprise learning management platform (LMP) with open-source Moodle at its core, announced today its partnership with The Learning Edge North America, providers of award-winning digital repository EQUELLA.
ASU Academic Analytics Background Dashboards–succinct graphical summaries of information that are commonly used in business to present data to executives and managers–are now cropping up in universities. Well at the forefront is the work being done at ASU under John Rome, who is associate vice president, University Technology Office. ASU is a large and rapidly [...]