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Category: Data

Comparing Outcomes Across Credentials

I was doing some random websurfing the other day and I came across the BC Student Outcomes Page, which makes freely available an absolute cornucopia of data on its graduates.  BC has a seriously decent survey set-up, in that they do surveys of each graduating class, every year – universities, colleges, apprenticeships, you name it.  Actually, it’s probably overkill, but for data nerds like me it’s absolute heaven. Anyways, BC surveys all its graduates between 9 and 20 months after

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March 18, 2013 3 Comments

MOOCs, Data, and the Public Interest

One of the reasons MOOCs are interesting as a pedagogical experiment is that, being online, they generate lots of capturable data.  This should create a data-rich environment which improves our understanding of learning processes, etc etc. So why is so little data about MOOCs actually being made public? Katy Jordan of the UK Open University just put together a nice little graphic about MOOC enrolment and success rates.  While her conclusions are interesting (avg enrolment = 50,000; avg. completion rate = 10%),

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March 1, 2013 3 Comments

The Justin Trudeau Effect

As you know, we at HESA have a national panel of students with whom we frequently commune to check the pulse of the student body.   Usually, we use this to look at students’ educational experiences.  Occasionally, though, we also use it to look at broader social and political issues.  And today, we’d like to show you what Canadian students really think of Justin Trudeau. Why Trudeau? Well, part of the man’s narrative is that he connects with the young.  His

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February 22, 2013 1 Comment

The Data Gap

Some of my Ottawa elves tell me that government officials – including the PMO – are starting to get frustrated by the lack of good data in higher education.  I’m not surprised.  Consider: We’re in one of those lull periods, between rounds of the National Graduate Survey (NGS).  The last one came out in late-2008 and looked at the experiences of 2005 grads in 2007, and the next one isn’t due out for another year or so.  Those who have

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January 23, 2013 2 Comments

Can’t Get No Satisfaction (Data)

Many of you will have heard by now that the Globe and Mail has decided not to continue its annual student survey, which we at HESA ran for the last three years.  The newspaper will continue publishing the annual Canadian University Report, but will now do so without any quantitative ratings. Some institutions will probably greet this news with a yawn, but for a number of others, the development represents a real blow.  There were a number of institutions who based a large

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January 17, 2013 No Comments

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