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Painting by numbers

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The lectures I attended and the exams I crammed for faded into a distant memory, until the emergence of learning analytics rekindled the fire. So it is in this context that I have started to review the principles of statistics and its contemporary manifestation, analytics. Is the latter just a fancy name for the former? Data science.

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Academic deflation

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Their courses can be completed online over several months, and they cover red hot topics such as data analytics and UX design. I admit to not taking too much notice of this trend until Google launched its Career Certificates. Their website says it all: Learn job-ready skills to start or advance your career in high-demand fields.

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7 big opportunities that MOOCs offer corporates

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This wades into the murky waters of privacy and ethics, but theoretically at least, a company could purchase access to a particular MOOC’s analytics. As Foldit can attest, problem solving through crowdsourcing really works – and sometimes the results are spectacular. Mining big data. Why would it want to do that?

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The foundations of innovation in L&D

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Analytics is analytics. These needs are so diverse within and across all the different job roles that the task is an almost comical impossibility. Moreover, a large proportion of these needs is generic; despite what many organisations think, they’re not that special. Decision making is decision making.

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The good life

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In a similar manner we can look at the model through other lenses, such as technology, process improvement, innovation, or analytics, to ensure they add value across the gamut of HR functions. Offboarding – What capabilities do our people need to equip them for the future?