The footage became a massive data set for Roy and his research team at MIT. Using unique data visualizations, they were able to track the many subtleties of a child’s learning process that they wouldn’t have been able to do in a lab. Ben Hecht: Big Data Gets Personal in U.S. But this wasn’t for sentimental purposes. Forget More! MORE >>

As our Work Literacy Ning site (2008) is in danger of getting bumped off the Net due to Ning’s new pricing policy , I will post some of the key articles here so we don’t lose them. Facebook was originally developed for college students to connect, so it has a more informal, social air than you find on LinkedIn. MORE >>

This work, in turn, is suggesting and supporting the model of learning described in the first section, that of a course network supporting and informing an ever-shifting set of course episodes. In business, this means that salespeople and customer service representatives must determine marketing policy. Why is this necessary? Akili, G. MORE >>

Harvard University has today put into the public domain (CC0) full bibliographic information about virtually all the 12M works in its 73 libraries. The University also provided the data to the Digital Public Library of America’s prototype platform for programmatic access via an API. Harvard’s Open Metadata policy. MORE >>

Home About Complexity Reading List Knowledge Management Reading List In Defense of Data Centrism John 0 comments Education System Dec 23 In the never ending search to know “what works,” we have a few choices.  We can look to theories, i.e., this ‘should’ work; or we can look to data.  The answer, I believe, comes from data.  MORE >>