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The Cause That Unites Chief IT and Academic Officers

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Canvas , whiteboards and a company called Blackboard. FUN SAD FACT: According to Avi Yashchin, Senior Offering Manager at IBM Watson: “Sadness [sentiments] in incoming freshman college application essay is the sixth strongest predictor of dropout.” WHAT DO PROFESSORS WANT FROM LEARNING ANALYTICS? From the Vendor Hall.

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Hack Education Weekly News

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Testing, Testing… Via the Hechinger Report : “On a classroom-based test for new teachers , black teachers score lower.” ” “A Conveyor Belt of Dropouts and Debt at For-Profit Colleges ” by Susan Dynarski. Via New America : “The Promise and Peril of Predictive Analytics in Higher Education.”