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Graduate Jobs
MPs on the UK House of Commons education committee have released a report titled “Value for Money in Higher Education.” They draw attention to figures from the Office for National ... -
Data literacy and participation in adult education
I am ever more interested in the issue of data literacy and agree very much with Javiera Atenas from the Open Education Working Group, London who says "Learning how to ... -
Leaving home
I've had this graphic hanging around for quite a while, so it may be out of date. I think the point of it is that like much data the figures ... -
Data and the future of universities
I've been doing quite a lot of thinking about how we use data in education. In the last few years two things have combined - the computing ability to collect ... -
Living in an Algorithmic World
This video is from Danah Boyd’s opening keynote for the re:publica 18 conference. Although it is an hour long it is well worth watching. Danah says "Algorithmic technologies that rely ... -
Designing Learner Dashboards
The UK Jisc are really good at producing on line reports of workshops and meetings (something which I am not!). This is one of the presentations from the Student ... -
Student satisfaction unrelated to learning behaviour and academic performance
I seem to spend a lot of time lately moaning about bad data practices. About approaches to learning analytics which appear to be based on looking at what data is ... -
Happy birthday, Graham Attwell!
Today the fellow-bloggers on Pontydysgu site can congratulate Graham Attwell on his birthday. I hope there is no home-made rule that would prevent us from celebrating this day via his ... -
Data, expenditure and the quality of Higher Education
In this brave new data world, we seem to get daily reports on the latest statistics about education. It si not easy making sense of it all. Times Higher Education ... -
Why is there such a big gender difference in graduate employment
In our work on Labour Market Information Systems, we frequently talk about the differences between labour market information and labour market intelligence in terms of making sense and meanings from ...
