What parts of your exercise program are most or least effective? When are your employees really engaged and when are they dreaming? Which training sessions/simulations/assessments/employee actions are most associated with…
MOOCs (Massive Open Online Courses) are currently reshaping the education and training landscape. In January 2013, the Harvard Business Review blog called "the advent of massively open online courses... the…
Why are they making such a big impression? The reasons are varied and growing. Not only do they offer unparalleled scalability and access, challenging the long-held notion that content is…
The current model in training analysis is "small data" - data based on reports, assessments, etc. from a small number of learners. But MOOCs can provide data from millions of…
In a 2012 report on educational data mining and learning analytics, the US Department of Education's Office of Educational Technology identified several questions that big data can help educators answer.…
What sequence of topics is most effective for a given learner? When are learners ready to move on to the next topic?
Which learner actions are associated with more learning? What actions indicate satisfaction, engagement, learning progress, etc.?
Which features of an online learning environment lead to better learning? What will predict learning success?
When is intervention required?
When the entire learning process takes place online, the entire learning process can be tracked and analyzed, and the data generated goes well beyond what is available in a classroom.…
This knowledge can be used to enhance both instructor-led training (ILT) and online learning. Here are some key areas where big data from MOOCs can influence training practice:
improve results. This is the obvious. Of course, the goal of all training is to increase employee skills and effectiveness. MOOC data can be analyzed at both a micro and…
clustering and relationship mining. Both of these concepts have to do with discovering relationships between variables. The data can be used in many ways, for example to organize employees with…
Customize programs on a large scale. MOOCs started out as a one-size-fits-all solution, but they're quickly evolving into adaptive learning environments tailored to individual learners. In the near future, the…
Predicting future trends. What is the return on investment (ROI) for your training program? Big data will help organizations predict the impact of training programs on the success of individuals,…
Businesses are already using big data to make decisions about sales, financial services, advertising, risk management, pricing, supply chain management - you name it. But until MOOCs came along, most…
The field is very new and educators are just beginning to realize the importance of having this data available. In a first attempt to quantify this learning experience, Duke recently…
So you're now convinced that the learning framework is the way to go and that Big Data will change your approach to training, but you don't know where to start…
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