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
Academic Majors of Interest
- Business›General Management
- Business›IT Management
- Computing›Computational Media
- Computing›Computer Science
- Computing›OMSCS asynchronous
- Computing›OMSCS synchronous
- Engineering›Computer Engineering
- Engineering›Electrical Engineering
- Other
- Sciences›Physics
- Sciences›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.
Meeting Schedule & Location
Team Advisors
- Center for 21st Century Universities
- Georgia Tech Professional Education
- Center for 21st Century Universities
- Center for 21st Century Universities