High school students taking college courses to demonstrate capability for college applications need to understand that not all courses send the same signal to admissions officers. This latter point, ...

When students at Purdue University are reading their homework assignments, sometimes the assignments are reading them too. A software program called Course Signals tracks various pieces of information ...

Frank is a social media journalist for the CDW family of technology magazine websites. A data mining student progress program gives students a real-time glimpse at how well they’ll do in a course.

Purdue University in West Lafayette, IN and SunGard Higher Education are in the beta testing phase of a jointly developed application that taps into data from course management, student information, ...

Course Signals is an educational technology tool that can help improve student achievement and lead to better student retention. A Purdue University-piloted tool that uses educational technology—and ...