Online Learning Update

May 16, 2019

It’s not all about big data

Filed under: Online Learning News — Ray Schroeder @ 12:02 am

Matt Dembecki, Community College Daily

During a panel discussion on student success Monday at the Education Writers Association national seminar, education researchers and administrators agreed that more than data is needed to determine student success. Too often, data only provide freeze frames — something Baltimore City Public Schools CEO Sonja Brookins Santelises called “incidental moments of data” — and they don’t factor in other important elements. “In the era of big data, we’ve become enamored with short-term test scores,” said Rucker Johnson, a public policy associate professor at the University of California, Berkeley, and research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research.

http://www.ccdaily.com/2019/05/not-big-data/

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