TBers, 

Big data and analytics, which "marries large data sets, statistical techniques and predictive modeling [to mine] institutional data to produce 'actionable intelligence,'"¹ present big questions to those of us in higher education.   A recent EDUCAUSE piece on this issue can be found here: 

1. John P. Campbell, Peter B. DeBlois, and Diana G. Oblinger, "Academic Analytics: A New Tool for a New Era," EDUCAUSE Review, vol. 42, no. 4, 2007.

Mr. James B.Greenberg