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These patterns can be used to detect emerging behavioral trends before they can be observed by other data analytics techniques. Endor’s analytics engine identified 80 Twitter accounts as potential EOIs because they were similar enough to the positive samples that the agency provided. MORE
This last week we launched our open course on Data, Analytics, and Learning on edX. Learners in edX use them for a range of reasons including quick search/help, venting, and as a way of orienting to the course. MORE
While there is perhaps no real reason to disagree with the (desired) attributes of a university that necessitate academic freedom, it may be relevant to list them here: free and open freedom of thought search for truth creative exploration and experimentation sifting and winnowing of ideas exchange of ideas environment for learning, teaching and reserach history and legacy Are these all and only the properties of a university relevant to the establishment and maintenance of academic freedom? MORE
11/26/2009 HANH Le # uberVU - social comments on 14 Jan 2010 at 7:02 am Social comments and analytics for this post… This post was mentioned on Twitter by lordorica: Community builders can get a jumpstart using Nancy White’s Online Community Purpose Checklist. MORE
Search the relationship networks in your organization to find future creative leaders. It also discusses social network analytics in mapping collaboration. Challenge your analytical and creative talents to design data so that it tells a story. MORE
Or maybe you have a board member who works in the business world and is or has connections to people who work in finance, market research, or analytics. Google offers the free MOOC called “ Google Analytics Academy.” MORE
You need an integrated content delivery, reporting and analytics environment, not simply a collection of TinCan databases or reporting in your LMS. There is a tremendous awareness of the need for performance support, contextual search, self-navigation, and new ideas like 70/20/10. MORE
In a few weeks, our edX course Data, Analytics, and Learning (#DALMOOC https://www.edx.org/course/utarlingtonx/utarlingtonx-link5-10x-data-analytics-2186 ) will start. The connection between learning and application is hampered as MOOC resources do not always persist after a course has ended and there is limited search functionality in MOOCs. Learners will have the option to search context relevant resources in ProSolo. MORE
These early analytics applications dealt mostly with structured information. This new data-centric era of computing goes by different names, depending on which aspect one wants to emphasize: big data , analytics , data science , cognitive computing , artificial intelligence. MORE
Having the metadata and the search skills is far more useful than memorising the detailed information in this and many other situations in the day-to-day pursuit of our work and life. This post appeared on the TrainingZone.co.uk site last month. MORE
While modest gains have been made in breaking down “stovepipes,” the initial energy of these “collaborative” efforts has waned and increased spending has largely cemented bad habits: siloed analytic reporting that fuels massive duplication of effort. MORE
We ( SoLAR ) are organizing an online symposium on Policy and Strategy for Learning Analytics Deployment. In higher education, annual rankings produce bragging rights for advancing universities and soul searching declining universities. MORE
A few weeks ago, McKinsey published The age of analytics: Competing in a data-driven world , a comprehensive report on the state of big data, and in particular, on the challenges and opportunities a company faces as it strives to become a data-driven business. MORE
That search is now over. . On January 20th, it will mark the 20th year anniversary since I started working in the IT industry. A lot has happened over the course of the last two decades both on a personal and work levels, as you can imagine, and, yet, it feels as if it was just yesterday. MORE
Data analytics. As such data analytics capabilities must be linked to identifying where business value can or might be created. You cannot necessarily predict where the greatest value in data analysis lies, so there must be the willingness to search. MORE
What should come as news to, well, no one, is that in the age of search, social, mobile, and now, wearable technologies, learner expectations have changed dramatically. Post Type: Blog post. MORE
Universities generally do a pretty good job when it comes to teaching hard skills, - engineering methods, technology, analytical tools, finance, marketing, and so on. Are engineering and management schools adequately preparing students for our fast-changing, highly complex business world? MORE
But if they have to learn how to observe analytes under a microscope, then you either need virtual equipment, or a real lab (in science, too often, we don’t teach them how do design experiments, we just give them the experiment to do). MORE
An example: I was meeting with a client who asked about our internal usage analytics – my firm has a page anyone behind the firewall can see that shows company-wide usage and trends for our collaboration tools. that mattered more than any of the tools or analytics. MORE
Its prediction algorithms integrate social physics technologies into its data analytic engine, enabling it to efficiently extract the underlying social attributes embedded in the raw data being analyzed. MORE
Recent studies have shown that, given our complex business world , companies are increasingly searching for talented individuals that are strong in quantitative, analytical, technical and similar hard skills, as well as in strategic thinking, teamwork, communications and related soft competencies. MORE
What should come as news to, well, no one, is that in the age of search, social, mobile, and now, wearable technologies, learner expectations have changed dramatically. Gathering intelligence requires tracking and analytics - enter the Tin Can API, or xAPI. MORE
For complicated reasons, I don’t have Google Analytics running. I have to admit I’m inclined to believe that folks, searching on the term, came to this post rather than it was so important on it’s own merits. MORE
I went in kind of skeptical, thinking that might not be a lot of novelty here – that ‘big data’ is just today’s marketing term for what we were calling ‘analytics’ or ‘business intelligence’ yesterday. MORE
He founded an online search engine marketing agency called Neverblue Media. But for all of his creativity and penchant for innovating—for getting this project and every other product to market on time and on budget—Clayton hated (and still hates) analytics. MORE
Now this was in the early days of data analytics, we were just getting started with key word searches and the like. Team formation became a matter of searching CVs in a database rather than building relationships over time. MORE
” Even a Google search for Learning Content Management System returns ads for Learning Management Systems, and articles that claim to rank the top LCMS’s, but really only include Learning Management Systems. Whether you want to see analytics. MORE
Faceted, Object Search. •. ?. Analytics and xAPI. •. ?. LMS vs. LCMS: What is the difference and why does it matter? LMS vs. LCMS? MORE
Tracking of use and analytics. This data set can be used to generate powerful analytic tools that can measure an individual’s strengths and weaknesses, and use this information to drive personalization. (In In future blog posts, I’ll elaborate on how analytics can drive personalization.). In conjunction with user tracking data and analytics, the delivery of the content can be personalized to the needs, habits, and preferences of the user. MORE
See, one of the other recommendations was to be more closely tied to Google’s tools for tracking sites, specifically Search Console. Now, I’d try to do this once I’d gotten all my sites tied into Google Analytics, including searching the WP file folders, and browsing a number, to no avail. And I’d searched for guidance, similarly to no avail. I’m now registered with the Search Console, with current Analytics code. MORE
Also, LMSs do not provide IDs with the deep analytics required to understand what content is working and what content is not. . Top-notch LCMS solutions can even provide detailed analytics that identify the most effective content. Faceted, Object Search. ?. ?. Analytics API. MORE
Machine learning is a statistical modelling technique, like data mining and business analytics , which finds and correlates patterns between inputs and outputs without necessarily capturing their cause-and-effect relationships. MORE
In a Scientific American blog post Deep thought is dead, Long live deep thought , a bioinformatics analyst broods on the question, ‘Where are these jobs that will require such rapid “searching, browsing, assessing quality, and synthesizing the vast quantities of information?" MORE
This past semester I was involved in an interesting course at MIT’s Sloan School of Management , - Analytics Labs (A-Lab). A-Lab’s objective is to teach students how to use data sets and analytics to address real-world business problems. MORE
e-Clippings (Learning As Art) Home Archives Subscribe About My Social Networks « "Games trainers play" (Washington Business Journal) | Main | Foucault, Control and the LMS » April 21, 2007 Spyware Alert - Thx to DArcy Norman A big shout out to DArcy Norman for noticing that Sitemeter (yes, I know Im not linking to it.thats on purpose), a web site analytics tool that I also have been using, has recently begun "inserting cookies for an advertising company. MORE
About a year ago I deleted Google Analytics from this website. What search terms were people using? — I no longer know where visitors come from, what they find interesting, or what they click on. This has liberated my thinking and I believe has made my writing a bit better. MORE
Learning Analytics comes from a report about the impact of emerging technologies for practitioners in a field. Two or three years to adoption: Learning Analytics (K-12/Higher Ed), Open Content (K-12), Games and Gamification (Higher Ed). Learning and Knowledge Analytics. MORE
We talk about finding the right tool for the data collection job and tools come in three different categories: analytics tools, content analysis, and surveys. Analytics tools like the ones described below are good for measuring actions and engagement. MORE
I didnt enable Google Analytics until somewhere in June / July, so what you get is what you see up there: stats for half the year Disclaimer number three : I have stats from Google Analytics, and Blogger - and they dont look the least alike. Business or Pleasure? - MORE
Search engine optimization (SEO). Search engine marketing. Search analytics. Web analytics. Advertising and marketing. An olive branch to advertising , at ProjectVRM , September 2012. Retailers, STOP dealing with data brokers , by datacoup. The Web Cookie Is Dying. Here’s The Creepier Technology That Comes Next , by Adam Tanner in Forbes. LumaScapes , by Luma Partners. MORE
There were many new technologies – many beginning to stretch the conventional boundaries: real-time, just-in-time search for candidates as opposed to building databases and communities using natural language as opposed to Boolean strings and arcane bits of knowledge. MORE
Irving Wladawsky-Berger
SEPTEMBER 10, 2018
Its prediction algorithms integrate social physics technologies into its data analytic engine, enabling it to efficiently extract the underlying social attributes embedded in the raw data being analyzed.
George Siemens
OCTOBER 3, 2013
We ( SoLAR ) are organizing an online symposium on Policy and Strategy for Learning Analytics Deployment. In higher education, annual rankings produce bragging rights for advancing universities and soul searching declining universities.
Xyleme
OCTOBER 29, 2013
What should come as news to, well, no one, is that in the age of search, social, mobile, and now, wearable technologies, learner expectations have changed dramatically. Gathering intelligence requires tracking and analytics - enter the Tin Can API, or xAPI.
Xyleme
OCTOBER 29, 2013
What should come as news to, well, no one, is that in the age of search, social, mobile, and now, wearable technologies, learner expectations have changed dramatically. Post Type: Blog post.
Stephen Downes: Half an Hour
APRIL 8, 2015
While there is perhaps no real reason to disagree with the (desired) attributes of a university that necessitate academic freedom, it may be relevant to list them here: free and open freedom of thought search for truth creative exploration and experimentation sifting and winnowing of ideas exchange of ideas environment for learning, teaching and reserach history and legacy Are these all and only the properties of a university relevant to the establishment and maintenance of academic freedom?
Beth Kanter
SEPTEMBER 12, 2013
Learning Analytics comes from a report about the impact of emerging technologies for practitioners in a field. Two or three years to adoption: Learning Analytics (K-12/Higher Ed), Open Content (K-12), Games and Gamification (Higher Ed). Learning and Knowledge Analytics.
Beth Kanter
OCTOBER 31, 2012
We talk about finding the right tool for the data collection job and tools come in three different categories: analytics tools, content analysis, and surveys. Analytics tools like the ones described below are good for measuring actions and engagement.
Nancy White
DECEMBER 30, 2009
Mark Oehlert
APRIL 21, 2007
e-Clippings (Learning As Art) Home Archives Subscribe About My Social Networks « "Games trainers play" (Washington Business Journal) | Main | Foucault, Control and the LMS » April 21, 2007 Spyware Alert - Thx to DArcy Norman A big shout out to DArcy Norman for noticing that Sitemeter (yes, I know Im not linking to it.thats on purpose), a web site analytics tool that I also have been using, has recently begun "inserting cookies for an advertising company.
Dave Snowden
MAY 13, 2017
Now this was in the early days of data analytics, we were just getting started with key word searches and the like. Team formation became a matter of searching CVs in a database rather than building relationships over time.
Irving Wladawsky-Berger
DECEMBER 19, 2016
A few weeks ago, McKinsey published The age of analytics: Competing in a data-driven world , a comprehensive report on the state of big data, and in particular, on the challenges and opportunities a company faces as it strives to become a data-driven business.
Doc Searls
JULY 13, 2013
Search engine optimization (SEO). Search engine marketing. Search analytics. Web analytics. Advertising and marketing. An olive branch to advertising , at ProjectVRM , September 2012. Retailers, STOP dealing with data brokers , by datacoup. The Web Cookie Is Dying. Here’s The Creepier Technology That Comes Next , by Adam Tanner in Forbes. LumaScapes , by Luma Partners.
Irving Wladawsky-Berger
OCTOBER 1, 2018
These patterns can be used to detect emerging behavioral trends before they can be observed by other data analytics techniques. Endor’s analytics engine identified 80 Twitter accounts as potential EOIs because they were similar enough to the positive samples that the agency provided.
Luis Suarez
JANUARY 18, 2017
That search is now over. . On January 20th, it will mark the 20th year anniversary since I started working in the IT industry. A lot has happened over the course of the last two decades both on a personal and work levels, as you can imagine, and, yet, it feels as if it was just yesterday.
Clark Quinn
SEPTEMBER 18, 2018
For complicated reasons, I don’t have Google Analytics running. I have to admit I’m inclined to believe that folks, searching on the term, came to this post rather than it was so important on it’s own merits.
Harold Jarche
FEBRUARY 28, 2018
About a year ago I deleted Google Analytics from this website. What search terms were people using? — I no longer know where visitors come from, what they find interesting, or what they click on. This has liberated my thinking and I believe has made my writing a bit better.
Xyleme
JULY 28, 2014
Also, LMSs do not provide IDs with the deep analytics required to understand what content is working and what content is not. . Top-notch LCMS solutions can even provide detailed analytics that identify the most effective content. Faceted, Object Search. ?. ?. Analytics API.
George Siemens
OCTOBER 7, 2014
In a few weeks, our edX course Data, Analytics, and Learning (#DALMOOC https://www.edx.org/course/utarlingtonx/utarlingtonx-link5-10x-data-analytics-2186 ) will start. The connection between learning and application is hampered as MOOC resources do not always persist after a course has ended and there is limited search functionality in MOOCs. Learners will have the option to search context relevant resources in ProSolo.
Irving Wladawsky-Berger
DECEMBER 29, 2015
This past semester I was involved in an interesting course at MIT’s Sloan School of Management , - Analytics Labs (A-Lab). A-Lab’s objective is to teach students how to use data sets and analytics to address real-world business problems.
Xyleme
AUGUST 16, 2017
” Even a Google search for Learning Content Management System returns ads for Learning Management Systems, and articles that claim to rank the top LCMS’s, but really only include Learning Management Systems. Whether you want to see analytics.
Dan Pontefract
FEBRUARY 15, 2016
He founded an online search engine marketing agency called Neverblue Media. But for all of his creativity and penchant for innovating—for getting this project and every other product to market on time and on budget—Clayton hated (and still hates) analytics.
Martijn Linssen
OCTOBER 8, 2013
An example: I was meeting with a client who asked about our internal usage analytics – my firm has a page anyone behind the firewall can see that shows company-wide usage and trends for our collaboration tools. that mattered more than any of the tools or analytics.
George Siemens
OCTOBER 28, 2014
This last week we launched our open course on Data, Analytics, and Learning on edX. Learners in edX use them for a range of reasons including quick search/help, venting, and as a way of orienting to the course.
Charles Jennings
DECEMBER 20, 2013
Xyleme
JULY 5, 2012
Tracking of use and analytics. This data set can be used to generate powerful analytic tools that can measure an individual’s strengths and weaknesses, and use this information to drive personalization. (In In future blog posts, I’ll elaborate on how analytics can drive personalization.). In conjunction with user tracking data and analytics, the delivery of the content can be personalized to the needs, habits, and preferences of the user.
Martijn Linssen
OCTOBER 6, 2010
While modest gains have been made in breaking down “stovepipes,” the initial energy of these “collaborative” efforts has waned and increased spending has largely cemented bad habits: siloed analytic reporting that fuels massive duplication of effort.
Clark Quinn
OCTOBER 4, 2016
See, one of the other recommendations was to be more closely tied to Google’s tools for tracking sites, specifically Search Console. Now, I’d try to do this once I’d gotten all my sites tied into Google Analytics, including searching the WP file folders, and browsing a number, to no avail. And I’d searched for guidance, similarly to no avail. I’m now registered with the Search Console, with current Analytics code.
Eide Neurolearning
MARCH 26, 2012
In a Scientific American blog post Deep thought is dead, Long live deep thought , a bioinformatics analyst broods on the question, ‘Where are these jobs that will require such rapid “searching, browsing, assessing quality, and synthesizing the vast quantities of information?"
Xyleme
AUGUST 3, 2017
Faceted, Object Search. •. ?. Analytics and xAPI. •. ?. LMS vs. LCMS: What is the difference and why does it matter? LMS vs. LCMS?
Andy McAfee
MARCH 2, 2012
I went in kind of skeptical, thinking that might not be a lot of novelty here – that ‘big data’ is just today’s marketing term for what we were calling ‘analytics’ or ‘business intelligence’ yesterday.
Irving Wladawsky-Berger
JANUARY 7, 2019
Machine learning is a statistical modelling technique, like data mining and business analytics , which finds and correlates patterns between inputs and outputs without necessarily capturing their cause-and-effect relationships.
Xyleme
FEBRUARY 18, 2014
You need an integrated content delivery, reporting and analytics environment, not simply a collection of TinCan databases or reporting in your LMS. There is a tremendous awareness of the need for performance support, contextual search, self-navigation, and new ideas like 70/20/10.
Ross Dawson
FEBRUARY 6, 2013
Data analytics. As such data analytics capabilities must be linked to identifying where business value can or might be created. You cannot necessarily predict where the greatest value in data analysis lies, so there must be the willingness to search.
Kevin Wheeler
JUNE 10, 2011
There were many new technologies – many beginning to stretch the conventional boundaries: real-time, just-in-time search for candidates as opposed to building databases and communities using natural language as opposed to Boolean strings and arcane bits of knowledge.
Charles Jennings
MAY 9, 2010
Having the metadata and the search skills is far more useful than memorising the detailed information in this and many other situations in the day-to-day pursuit of our work and life. This post appeared on the TrainingZone.co.uk site last month.
Irving Wladawsky-Berger
DECEMBER 23, 2014
Universities generally do a pretty good job when it comes to teaching hard skills, - engineering methods, technology, analytical tools, finance, marketing, and so on. Are engineering and management schools adequately preparing students for our fast-changing, highly complex business world?
Ross Dawson
AUGUST 8, 2011
Search the relationship networks in your organization to find future creative leaders. It also discusses social network analytics in mapping collaboration. Challenge your analytical and creative talents to design data so that it tells a story.
Beth Kanter
NOVEMBER 18, 2014
Or maybe you have a board member who works in the business world and is or has connections to people who work in finance, market research, or analytics. Google offers the free MOOC called “ Google Analytics Academy.”
Irving Wladawsky-Berger
MARCH 22, 2016
These early analytics applications dealt mostly with structured information. This new data-centric era of computing goes by different names, depending on which aspect one wants to emphasize: big data , analytics , data science , cognitive computing , artificial intelligence.
Martijn Linssen
JANUARY 3, 2011
I didnt enable Google Analytics until somewhere in June / July, so what you get is what you see up there: stats for half the year Disclaimer number three : I have stats from Google Analytics, and Blogger - and they dont look the least alike. Business or Pleasure? -
Irving Wladawsky-Berger
OCTOBER 31, 2016
Recent studies have shown that, given our complex business world , companies are increasingly searching for talented individuals that are strong in quantitative, analytical, technical and similar hard skills, as well as in strategic thinking, teamwork, communications and related soft competencies.
Stephen Downes: Half an Hour
OCTOBER 16, 2017
But if they have to learn how to observe analytes under a microscope, then you either need virtual equipment, or a real lab (in science, too often, we don’t teach them how do design experiments, we just give them the experiment to do).
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