Big Tech: Four Emerging Forms of Digital Rentiership

Digital Forms of Performance Assessment

In the developed world a very small proportion of work tasks are done using paper and pen and yet most high-stakes assessment in schools continue to use this primitive technology. While employers and community leaders call for schools to produce students with 21 Century skills and deep conceptual understanding of content the main driver of curriculum and pedagogy, assessment, continues to focus...

From the big three to the big four.

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Digital Archives as Big Data

Digital archives contribute to Big Data. Combining social network analysis, coincidence analysis, data reduction, and visual analytics leads to better characterize topics over time, publishers ́ main themes and best authors of all times, according to the British newspaper The Guardian and from the 3 million records of the British National bibliography.

Big data and the emerging ethical challenges

Big data and sustainable cities: applications of new and emerging forms of geospatial data in urban studies

Introduction With the development of Information and Communications Technology (ICT), new forms of geospatial data are emerging in recent years. Among the new and emerging forms of geospatial data, volunteered geographic information (or crowdsourced geographic information) and geosocial networking data are gaining much interest [1–4]. Sources of volunteered geographic information (VGI) include ...