The Experience API (xAPI for short) is far more than just an update to SCORM, the popular standard for tracking data from a learning management system. xAPI opens up a whole new world of possibilities for learning analytics. Examples of what real organizations are doing with it in real-life situations make it easier to grasp the scale of this advance and apply the learnings to your own situation.
Through 3 key case studies, Rachel Thomas covers how people can be harmed by machine learning gone wrong, why we as machine learning practitioners should care, and what tech ethics are.
Researchers and educators have developed computer-based tools, such as automated writing evaluation (AWE) systems, to increase opportunities for students to produce natural language responses in a variety of contexts and subsequently to alleviate some of the pressures facing writing instructors due to growing class sizes
Learning Analytics seems to be the hot topic in L&D in 2019. Practitioners know they need help with this, but if you lack confidence and skill in analytics, where do you start?
Learning and performance powered by data and analytics: a practical case study Trish Uhl, Senior Consultant, Data Science and Advanced Analytics, Owl’s Ledge LLC
Students often enter higher education academically unprepared and with unrealistic perceptions and expectations of university life, which are critical factors that influence students’ decisions to leave their institutions prior to degree completion.
This study explores the adoption and implementation of the flipped classroom in four private schools in the Mid-Atlantic. Its purpose was to understand why teachers choose the flipped classroom, and to describe in rich detail the pedagogical and technological approaches teachers utilized in their unique contextual classroom settings.
Nature is the international weekly journal of science: a magazine style journal that publishes full-length research papers in all disciplines of science, as well as News and Views, reviews, news, features, commentaries, web focuses and more, covering all branches of science and how science impacts upon all aspects of society and life.
organic search and search rankings, search infrastructure at Google,
search advertising, ad networks, geotargeting, click fraud, cookies
and other user profiling techniques, privacy issues, strategy &
competitive advantage
Faviki is a social bookmarking tool which allows users to use common, predefined tags to annotate web pages. Using the Wikipedia collection of articles as a source of a universal controlled vocabulary, it provides so-called ‘semantic tags’. In this way, web pages saved by users are not just described by random words but connected to uniquely defined concepts.
In February 2008, Janssen-Cilag Australia & New Zealand launched an internal microblogging platform called Jitter. Combined with our intranet's people search capabilities, this formed an interesting enterprise hybrid of Facebook & Twitter style capabilities. This People Search with Jitter solution received Highly Commended in the 2008 Intranet Innovation Awards.