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Monthly Archives: January 2012
Interview | Shawn Bay Knows Education Data
After his own experience in working with large quantities of data in the private sector, Shawn Bay recognized the amount of data within education and an opportunity to apply analytics to improve education. That was the genesis for eScholar. Here, … Continue reading
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Tagged Cumberland County North Carolina, data analytics in education, data warehousing, data-driven decision making in education, ecommerce, education data, eScholar, myTrack, No Child Left Behind, Santa Ana Unified School District, Shawn Bay, TCO in education, Uniq-ID
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Trends | Infographic: The State of OpenCourseWare
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Tagged academic course materials, Berkeley OCW, Berkeley webcast, college and university content, CORE, course content, iTunes and opencourseware, iTunes University, Jorum, Khan Academy, MERLOT, Michigan opencourseware, MIT OCW movement, Notre Dame OCW, online courses, Open Michigan, Open Yale Courses, Textbook Revolution, the state of opencourseware
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In Google We Trust
GUEST COLUMN | by Angela Maiers Without a doubt, my 14-year-old daughter can text paragraphs faster and more accurate than I can text one sentence. My 15-year-old son is my go-to person for all my TV, computer, and technology needs. … Continue reading
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Tagged 21st century skills, Angela Maiers, digital learners, Digital Learning, digital natives, disturbing facts about students and technology literacy, In Google We Trust, kids and technology, looking critically at web content, media and web literacy, media literacy, Northwestern University study on web skills, what is media literacy
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Cool Tool | Currix Digital Library for Teachers
Ann-Caryn Cleveland is a professor, a documentary filmmaker and a mom. She says that the idea for Currix came like a lightening bolt—quite literally: she was trying to teach her Cinematography students about electricity and realized that since she didn’t … Continue reading
Interview | Backing Up Education With STORServer
That rare type who excels at both engineering and the humanities, John Pearring is a former educator, publisher and current chairman of STORServer, a data backup solution provider. With a knack for untangling complexities and clearly communicating and constructing workable … Continue reading
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Tagged data backup for education, STORServer, John Pearring, backup appliance, IT centers, Ohio STORServer, education IT managers, compression and deduplication, infrastructure, Ohio Education Computer Network, schools and IT development, IT scalability for schools, virtual implementation of backup appliance, education facilities
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