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http://www.hackeducation.com/2012/04/10/the-department-of-education-on-educational-data-mining/ The Department of Education released a draft report about big data and education today.

On Educational Data Mining

3 Reasons The Future of Learning Will Be Online

In recent years, more education professionals have noticed the benefits of online learning. Such programs allow students to comprehend a subject matter in a structure that can be more convenient for their learning styles. http://edudemic.com/2012/04/3-reasons-the-future-of-learning-will-be-online/
Database Creativity

Who can resist a colourful, thoughtful venn diagram anyway? In terms of blogging success, infographics are far more likely to be shared than your average blog post. This means more eyeballs on your important information, more people rallying for your cause, more backlinks and more visits to your blog. In short, a quality infographic done well could be what your blog needs right now. Designing An Infographic

10 Awesome Tools To Make Infographics

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Universities set to lose £5.6bn as overseas applications plummet - Education - News

Restrictions on visas, the massive rise in tuition fees for European Union students at English universities and the murder of a student from India over Christmas are posing a threat to the future of universities, academics warned yesterday. At stake is not only the vast extra earnings they bring to the economy – estimated at £5bn a year – but UK universities' reputation as being world-class institutions in which to study. http://www.independent.co.uk/news/education/universities-set-to-lose-56bn-as-overseas-applications-plummet-6348814.html
http://www.onlineuniversities.com/blog/2010/03/100-time-saving-search-engines-for-serious-scholars/ While burying yourself in the stacks at the library is one way to get some serious research done, with today’s technology you can do quite a bit of useful searching before you ever set foot inside a library. Undergraduates and grad students alike will appreciate the usefulness of these search engines that allow them to find books, journal articles and even primary source material for whatever kind of research they’re working on and that return only serious, academic results so time isn’t wasted on unprofessional resources. Note: Visit our updated list for the latest in academic search engines. General Start off your research with one of these more general academic search engines.

100 Time-Saving Search Engines for Serious Scholars

Characterised by creativity and attuned to the needs of their age, the first European universities have important lessons for higher education today, says Miri Rubin As a historian of the Middle Ages, I am frequently asked about the links between universities then and now. http://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/417560.article

Sources of illumination

The essay film – ‘a form that thinks’

Toby Lichtig Timothy Corrigan THE ESSAY FILM From Montaigne, after Marker 237pp. Oxford University Press. £60 (paperback, £17.99). 978 0 19 978169 0 http://www.the-tls.co.uk/tls/public/article833328.ece
The Scandinavian country is an education superpower because it values equality more than excellence. Sergey Ivanov/Flickr Everyone agrees the United States needs to improve its education system dramatically, but how? http://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2011/12/what-americans-keep-ignoring-about-finlands-school-success/250564/

What Americans Keep Ignoring About Finland's School Success - Atlantic Mobile