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The Gates Effect: How the Gates Foundation’s $472-Million Is Remaking Higher Education

July 14, 2013 by parrymarc

The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation has spent $472-million (so far) on higher education. Why many in academe are not writing thank-you notes. A special report.

Categories: article • Tags: advocacy, Bill Gates, competency-based education, Educause, financial aid, Gates Foundation, higher education, lobbying, New America Foundation, philanthropy, politics, Southern New Hampshire University, technology

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Big Data On Campus: Netflix Meets Google Meets Academia — Data Mining is Reshaping the College Experience.

July 23, 2012 by parrymarc

College life, quantified: My latest story looks at how data mining is reshaping the student experience. The article is a collaboration between The New York Times and The Chronicle of Higher Education.

Categories: article • Tags: arizona state university, big data, data mining, higher education, knewton, technology

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The Humanities Go Google: Big Data Comes to the Humanities, And It Could Bring Sweeping Changes in How People “Read” and Study Them

May 8, 2010 by parrymarc

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Categories: technology • Tags: big data, digital humanities, English, Franco Moretti, google, google books, higher education, humanities, literature, Matt Jockers, research, Stanford, technology

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