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The Artificial Intelligence Debate in Education
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Setting Students Up for Success Using Data
It’s the question every college or university serious about using analytics to help students succeed asks itself: what does student success look...
How Higher Ed Can Use Data to Track Alumni Engagement
With the wealth of data available to colleges and universities about current students, it can be easy to forget that there is just as much...
How Higher Ed Gathers Student Data with Wearable Tech and Location Tracking
Fans know where to find the University of Alabama football program—it’s usually at the top of the polls. But now, the University of Alabama football...
The Role of Data Quality in Higher Education Analytics
Technology can only do so much. It can provide incredible insights that organizations might not have imagined possible…but only if the people...
3 Ways Analytics Can Make Higher Ed More Efficient
It is a term thrown around every time a school mentions its use of data—analytics will make the institution more “efficient.” But what does that...
Finding Higher Ed Success with Data through Dashboard Visualization
You only get one chance to make a first impression. Sound advice for socialization, sure, but it can also apply to the world of higher ed. (Beyond...
Experimenting with Nationwide Higher Ed Analytics
Many colleges and universities are using higher ed analytics in one form or another, as they figure out how to best improve student performance or...
The University Campus of the Future: What’s Coming in the Next 10 Years
With many colleges and universities considering expansion – new buildings, bigger spaces – they are increasingly turning to data analytics for their...
Using Data to Make Gains: Lessons from a Former Secretary of Education
Often the conversation about higher education starts at the college level. But there are many lessons that colleges and universities can learn from...
How Artificial Intelligence Is Being Used in Higher Education
Colleges and universities are using data in ever-growing ways. They analyze data in order to figure out which programs are doing well or whether new...
How a Billionaire’s Surprise Gift and an Admissions Scandal Impact Higher Ed’s Use of Data
Recent news from the world of higher education has been a real mixed bag. There was the feel-good story from Morehouse College, where billionaire...
Job Prospects for the Class of 2019: Both Data Skills and Soft Skills Are Important
Congratulations to the class of 2019! That’s congratulations for the completion of all the hard work that earned a diploma, and also congratulations...
Hot Topic: The Student Debt Crisis
Student debt is continually in the headlines, and with good reason. In the U.S. alone, more than 44 million people owe $1.5 trillion in student...
The Past Predicts the Future: How Predictive Analytics Can Help Schools with Retention
It’s a saying we’ve all heard in one history class or another: Those who do not learn from the past are doomed to repeat it. The maxim can apply to...
Lessons Learned from a Technological Transformation Gone Wrong
It is a tense time in the world of higher education. The schools that aren’t putting pressure on themselves to respond to popular trends and try to...
3 Ways Higher Education Instructors Can Make Better Use of Data
There are many factors that go into how an instructor uses data at the higher education level. It could simply be that faculty member’s comfort...
Higher Education and Government: Working Together for the Public Good
It’s often said that when it comes to data in higher education, institutions have more data than they know what to do with. In those instances, it’s...
What Colleges and Universities are Doing to Help Students Manage Debt
On the one hand, some courses are so full that extra sections have to be added and students are placed on waitlists. Colleges and universities...
How Colleges and Universities Use Surveys To Gather Student Data
When you think data and analytics, chances are you think numbers. But it’s not just numbers, especially in the field of higher education. Sure,...