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Data-Driven Education

Goals

This team focuses on the effects that data are having in shaping education, on how new, rich, educational data sources can be used to improve content, instruction, and learning. Specifically, we look to the vast array of data that can be collected around educational opportunities at Georgia Tech and how those data shape educational practice.

Issues Involved or Addressed

Georgia Tech utilizes a variety of digital platforms to foster education from our learning management systems to Piazza discussion forums to MOOC platforms such as Coursera and edX. These platforms generate myriad data points about the trajectory of learning, ranging from content and video consumption to forum participation to assessments of learning to background characteristics of the learners. However, much of this information goes unused both in terms of research for understanding learners and research for improving instruction.

Methods and Technologies

  • Big Data
  • Learning Science
  • Learning Analytics
  • Social Statistics
  • Educational Research
  • Hypothesis Testing

Majors Sought

Business: General Management, IT Management

Computing: Computational Media, Computer Science

Engineering: Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering

Sciences: Physics, Statistics

Preferred Interests and Preparation

CmpE, CS, CM – Background/interest in systems, databases, information security, networking. Database and server configuration experience would be helpful but is not required. STC, HSTS – Background/Interest in statistical methods for hypothesis testing using behavioral data. R, SPSS, SAS experience helpful but not required. MGMT, Analytics – Background/interest acquisition and management of large data streams, creation and interpretation of mathematical models. PHYS – Background/interest in improving/enhancing physics instruction.

Advisors

Jeonghyun (Jonna) Lee
Jeonghyun (Jonna) Lee
jonnalee@gatech.edu

Eric Sembrat
Eric Sembrat
esembrat@gatech.edu

Stephen Harmon
Georgia Tech Professional Education
swharmon@gatech.edu

Warren GoetzelCenter for 21st Century Universitieswgoetzel3@gatech.edu

Meryem Yilmaz Soylu
Center for 21st Century Universities
msoylu6@gatech.edu

Day, Time & Location

Full Team Meeting:
11:00-11:50 Wednesday
Van Leer 465

Subteam meetings scheduled after classes begin.

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