SCoE: Common Core Resources

In a teaching and learning context, data from such sources as the LMS, college application forms, and library records can be used to build academic analytics programs that use algorithms to construct predictive models that can identify students at risk for not succeeding academically. Source: EDUCAUSE Learning Initiatives

In this paper, the author examines the potential for improved research, evaluation, and accountability through data mining, data analytics, and web dashboards. Source: Brookings Institute

This study investigated an innovative approach of program evaluation through analyses of student learning logs, demographic data, and end-of-course evaluation surveys in an online K-12 supplemental program.

This paper considers how emerging techniques, such as data mining and learning analytics, allow the use of performance and behavioral data to improve student learning not just for future iterations of a program but in real time for current students. Source: National Institute for Learning Outcomes Assessment.

The purpose of this article is to examine the evolving world of big data and analytics in American higher education.

Listed websites include continuously expanding collections of CCSS implementation resources.

A national nonprofit based in North Carolina, which focuses is on teachers transforming teaching. Their virtual home, the CTQ Collaboratory, is open to all who support teachers as leaders.

A useful blog that carves through some of the hype.

A Google+ Community where members discuss real-world implementations.

Regional and country profiles from UNESCO (United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization).

Offers some course work and networked data blending options. Additionally, some level of a sandbox for trying your own research.

An online tool for California educator collaboration and resource sharing. Over 70,000 educational resources have been contributed to the resource libraries to help educators transition to the CCSS. Sponsored by the California Dept of Education.

An educator's guide to websites, organizations, articles, and other resources looking at the new system of standards and how they will be assessed.