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| | Today's Top Stories | | 1. | How Stanford is using analytics to detect fraud and abuse | | | via eCampus News | | | How do you identify fraud, waste, and abuse when your procurement office handles more than a million transactions a year and $2.2 billion in disbursements? Manually, if youre Stanford University, just like most institutions of higher education do. But, faced with a changing audit landscape, the California school is now looking to analytics to help detect transaction irregularities. More
Why This Matters: Sure, analytics can help with retention and student success, but they can also be useful tools to curb fraud and abuse. Read how Standford is tapping in to the power of data for analytics-driven transaction monitoring. |
| | 2. | An Innovation Center Built for Flexibility and Transparency | | | via Campus Technology | | | Innovation centers are becoming commonplace on university campuses, but few live up to the name as well as Clemson University's (SC) Watt Family Innovation Center both in terms of architectural features and the array of technology and collaboration options available to students and faculty. More
Why This Matters: You won't want to miss this detailed look at Clemson's impressive innovation center, which incorporates hardware from a staggering number of vendors. Flexibility and collaboration were key to the design of this facility from the get-go. |
| | 3. | What Do Academics Really Think of Adaptive Learning? | | | via EdSurge | | | In Spring 2016, faculty, support staff and administrators at Oregon State University met to candidly share their experiences with adaptive learning technology. One key theme emerged in their conversations: Institutions are looking for partnersnot vendorswhen it comes to implementing new solutions. More
Why This Matters: Want to get a more complete picture of adaptive learning? This article and its accompanying videos give an inside look at the experiences of various campus stakeholders who interact with this kind of tech. |
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| | Blog Quote of the Day | Memory Machines: Learning, Knowing, and Technological Change
"We can think about the changes that must happen to our educational institutions not because technology compels us but because we want to make these institutions more accessible, more equitable, more just. We should question this myth of the speed of technological change and adoption again, by 'myth' I dont mean 'lie'; I mean 'story that is unassailably true.' if its going to work us into a frenzy of bad decision-making. Into injustice. Inequality. " Audrey Watters, Hack Education |
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Study after study show that a variety of 'active learning' reduces the performance gap for low-income and URM students. This is not trivial. |
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