The new and rapidly growing field of educational data mining is using the chaff from data collected through normal school activities to explore learning in more detail than ever before, and ...

It’s been a little over a year since eCollege merged with Pearson, the publishing conglomerate. Matthew Leavy, eCollege’s chief executive, says the move has enabled his company to increase its staff ...

Online-services giant Google has acknowledged that it collects and data-mines for some commercial purposes a wide range of personal information on student users who log in through its popular Apps for ...

From making travel plans, to online purchases, to watching videos, each day we generate vast amounts of data that contribute to the world of big data. We have already seen big data play a significant ...

Universities either public or private and its colleges enroll thousands of students into various courses or programs every year. They collect information from students at the time of admissions and ...

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State Attorney General Jim Hood's office filed a lawsuit Friday accusing Google of illegally mining the data of Mississippi public-school students. On Tuesday, Hood accused Google Inc. of collecting ...

The U.S. Department of Education is investigating how public schools can collect information on “non-cognitive” student attributes, after granting itself the power to share student data across ...

Ever since conservative courts and voters began trying to eliminate affirmative action in the 1990s, universities have sought creative ways to boost their enrollment of minority students without ...

Educators have long held that the interactions between students and professors defy simple reduction. Yet in several areas of campus life, colleges are converting the student experience into numbers ...