[edm-announce] Coursera course on Educational Data Mining
- From: "Ryan S.J.d. Baker" <ryan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: edm-announce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 12 Jun 2013 17:41:01 -0400
BIG DATA IN EDUCATION
Offered through Coursera
In coordination with Teachers College, Columbia University
https://www.coursera.org/course/bigdata-edu
Instructor: Ryan S.J.d. Baker
Course dates: August 5, 2013 -- October 14, 2013
Education is increasingly occurring online or in educational software,
resulting in an explosion
of data that can be used to improve educational effectiveness and
support basic research on
learning. In this course, you will learn how and when to use key
methods for educational data
mining and learning analytics on this data.
About the Course
The emerging research communities in educational data mining and
learning analytics are
developing methods for mining and modeling the increasing amounts of
fine-grained data
becoming available about learners. In this class, you will learn about
these methods, and their
strengths and weaknesses for different applications. You will learn
how to use each method to
answer education research questions and to drive intervention and
improvement in educational
software and systems. Methods will be covered both at a theoretical
level, and in terms of how
to apply and execute them using standard software tools. Issues of
validity and generalizability
will also be covered, towards learning to establish how trustworthy
and applicable the results of
an analysis are.
For more information see
https://www.coursera.org/course/bigdata-edu
Or contact Ryan S.J.d. Baker
baker2@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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