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Colleges Mine Data to Tailor Students' Experience. CSci4707 Presentation Group 31. Educational data mining. Students input answers in Learning Catalytics, software designed by Brian Lukoff, their instructor. The screen shows a map of everyone's answers, telling him who needs help. Debate.
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Colleges Mine Data to Tailor Students' Experience CSci4707 Presentation Group 31
Educational data mining Students input answers in Learning Catalytics, software designed by Brian Lukoff, their instructor. The screen shows a map of everyone's answers, telling him who needs help.
Debate Proponents feel that making better use of data to inform decisions skeptics worry that data-mining fosters a factory-line approach to education: respond to instructor prompts rather than express creativity How much should students be told about the behind-the-scenes computer analysis that manipulates their educational experiences? And how far should colleges go in shaping those experiences based on data patterns?
Potential Applications-Better Choices? Austin Peay: software that recommends courses picking a major Admission: both students and college admissions officers
Classroom 'Clickstreams' selects student discussion groups manage the pace of classes inviting students to submit open-ended responses encourage argument by pairing different opionion
Signals for Success: the future web courses: predicts with 70-percent accuracy -reasons... can you change a student's trajectory? -mixed... Colleges will push for more and more info