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Libraries Look to Big Data to Measure Their Worth—And Better Help Students

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Libraries have long counted up the books on their shelves to show their value. That meant Harvard University’s library (with 18.9-million These days, though, libraries are finding new ways to measure their worth. Many college leaders now see encouraging library use as a way to boost student success.

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Hack Education Weekly News

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Each week, I gather a wide variety of links to education and education technology articles. For example, this story from the School Library Journal : “ Charter Schools , Segregation , and School Library Access.” The third: lifelong learning. National) Education Politics. Her remarks.)

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Learning to learn data science, part 1: Beginner’s mind

Robert Talbert, Ph.D.

in mathematics and 25 years' experience as a professor, including some background in Python, when I decided to get serious about learning R and data science (and learning analytics in particular) and attended the LASER Institute at NC State this year, I was starting from zero. Although I have a Ph.D.

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” @14prinsp @KateMfD @audreywatters @gsiemens VC-mediated "consent" for academic studies "Incorrect Response!" ” (The article features a photo of Arne Duncan – a reminder that the former Secretary of Education now works for the Knight Commission, as well as for the venture firm Emerson Collective.).

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The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade

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The implication, according to one NYT article : “the digital gap between rich and poor kids is not what we expected.” The real digital divide, this article contends, is not that affluent children have access to better and faster technologies. (Um, The End of Library" Stories (and the Software that Seems to Support That).

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EDITED TO ADD: Apparently, The Guardian article is not quite right. ” Via Infodocket : “ University of Delaware Library Joins Open Textbook Network.” Education Week has a Q&A with Stanford professor Larry Cuban on personalized learning and progressive education. .” Let’s be clear.

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” “Schools, Libraries Miss Out on Millions in E-Rate Funds,” according to EdTech Magazine – some $245 million for the 2014 fiscal year. From Course Report : “the 2016 Coding Bootcamp Market Size Study.” “ 14 projects win 2016 Knight News Challenge on Libraries.”