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What You Need to Know About MOOCs
What You Need to Know About MOOCs
What are MOOCs?
MOOCs are classes that are taught online to large numbers of students, with minimal involvement by professors. Typically, students watch short video lectures and complete assignments that are graded either by machines or by other students. That way a lone professor can support a class with hundreds of thousands of participants.
The Internet Now!
Are you curious to know what is happening around the World right Now? Click to see the face of the Internet.
Sentiment analysis and Opinion Mining by Bing Liu
Best slides about Sentiment Analysis and Opinion Mining by Bing Liu in AAAI 2011
Visual Analytics in Support of Education by Katy Börner
Keynote speaker in LAK’2012 Katy Börner present Visual Analytics in Support of Education
Motivation: Design informative and visually pleasing visualizations that make a difference. Three exemplary problems and solutions.
Theory: Learn from and combine approaches from psychology, cartography, computer science, information visualization, statistics, graphic design.
Practice: Plug-and-play macroscope tools that commoditize data mining and visualization.
Presenting in Learning Analytics and Knowledge in Vancouver, British Columbia, On April 30, 2012
Thanks Rong Yang for agreeing to video stream the presentation in Learning Analytics and Knowledge 2012 @ Vancouver, British Columbia: Cyberlearners and Learning Resources
Google Scholar Metrics
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In a blog posted on April Fool’s Day, Google announced a new feature to its Scholar service. This was no prank. It was the genuine debut of a new tool called Google Scholar Metrics. The service follows the same principle that has made Google’s web search engine so successful – when you are unsure what a user is looking for, give them a list of options ranked by a metric of popularity. In this instance, the users are academics ready to submit their next breakthrough but are uncertain which journal to choose. The solution Scholar Metrics offers is a database summarizing the sway of the distributors of scholarship “to help authors as they consider where to publish their new research“.
