Teachers College, Columbia Univ offers course on Big Data in Education

Teachers College, Columbia University is conducting an online course on 'Big Data in Education'. The course focuses on learning how and when to use key methods for educational data mining and learning analytics on large-scale educational data.

About The Course

The course helps you to learn about the methods being developed by researchers in the educational data mining, learning analytics, learning at scale, student modeling, and artificial intelligence in education communities, as well as standard data mining methods frequently applied to educational data.

During the course you will learn how to apply these methods, and when to apply them, as well as their strengths and weaknesses for different applications.

Prerequisites

Basic knowledge of statistics, data mining, mathematical modelling, or algorithms is recommended. Experience with programming is not mandatory.

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