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Month: July 2017

A new series for this year: launching the Foundational Course Initiative

This post is the first in what will probably be a long series dedicated to something new I’m working on: the University of Michigan’s Foundational Course Initiative, or FCI. For me the launch of this initiative is a big thing. Partly, it’s the culmination of several years of work, a confluence of work done on…

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Hey vendors! Stop calling what you’re selling colleges and universities “Predictive Analytics”

I know. I know. You’ve already heard me complain about this. I hate it when vendors sell digested student data back to a campus and call it “predictive analytics.” But they’re not stopping, so neither am I. Predictive analytics is a name we should reserve for actually predicting something. Let’s talk about a real prediction….

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Recent Posts

  • Foundational Courses – Learning Statistics with a Small Town January 14, 2018
  • A new series for this year: launching the Foundational Course Initiative July 31, 2017
  • Hey vendors! Stop calling what you’re selling colleges and universities “Predictive Analytics” July 27, 2017
  • Forget Predictive Analytics: We’re Learning From Experience April 2, 2017
  • Thoughts on the Transcript of the Future December 11, 2016
  • What does it mean to personalize education, and what does analytics have to do with it? December 1, 2016
  • Fairness in higher education: what goes wrong, how can we tell? November 25, 2016
  • Grades are Worn Out November 25, 2016

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