Executive View
Hobsons announced its acquisition of the PAR (Predictive Analytics Reporting) Framework this month, and the PAR team is already in Arlington for the onboarding process. CT spoke with Ellen Wagner, who is now Chief Research Officer for the PAR Framework and VP for Research at Hobsons; and Stephen M. Smith, President of Advising and Admissions Solutions at Hobsons for their views on the acquisition. More
Worth Noting
Although educational institutions and other organizations are making greater use of data to support business outcomes, in many cases the quality of that data is not high enough to support goals such as improved customer experience, decision making and governance, according to a new report from Experian Data Quality, a provider of data quality software and services. MoreAcademic researchers now have free access to a sizable new dataset for the purposes of expanding the scientific world's understanding of Web sciences. MoreWhile the topic of mobility technology dominated the Educause list of the most strategic technologies in 2015, this year's compilation for higher ed is quite diverse, covering mobile again alongside analytics, security, application management and delivery, service desk management, business performance and teaching and learning. MoreNominations are now open for the 2016 CT Innovators Awards. MoreStanford has launched a new Winter 2016 Grant Program, which aims to provide financial support for innovative uses of technology and course designs and redesigns. MoreFlat World Education today announced a partnership with Knewton that will bring the company's adaptive learning technology to Flat World's digital course content. MoreApple's acquisition of Emotient, an artificial intelligence start-up founded by three University of California San Diego (UCSD) researchers, has cleared the way for further robotics research at the university. MoreA new portal houses state-level research linking higher education to labor market demands. MoreGame-based learning should just be another tool in the belt, as far as educators in higher ed think, particularly useful for "learning moments" that can help students succeed, according to new research from Muzzy Lane. Likewise, game-based learning is no good if it's pricey and complex to develop; it needs to be inexpensive and "authorable" by the faculty members themselves. And don't forget, students say, to make the games mobile so they work on the same devices the students like to use. MorePanOpen is tackling the textbook affordability challenge with a new learning platform based exclusively on open educational resources. More
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