Inside Higher Ed

Potential Breakthrough on Federal Student Data System

You have /5 articles left. Sign up for a free account or log in. As conversations swirl about how to improve higher education’s return on investment for students ...
EdTech

6 Best Practices for Using Student Data for Student Success

The 2020 list of EDUCAUSE’s Top 10 IT Issues provides evidence that the higher education IT community is increasingly focused on using technology to better understand students and rethink systems, ...
EdSurge

Instead of Paying Thousands for Student Data Systems, Try This Free Option Instead

When I taught high school English, I created an essay system that did just that. It used a Google Form rubric, a Google Sheet as a database, and a “Student Tracker System” I developed. This setup ...
EdTech

Do Student Information Systems Need a Tuneup?

Imagine you are at a higher education conference and several attendees from IBM take the stage. They have big news. They announce that they have developed something called the University and College ...
Education Week

Students Embrace a Wide Range of Gender Identities. Most School Data Systems Don’t

Back in the fall of 2020, a few staff members from the Philadelphia public school system’s central office brought a vexing problem to Sarah Galbally, the district’s lobbyist in the state capital of ...