Title:
Drowning in data? Is there a ‘tyranny of metrics’ in education?
Author:
Nick Hillman
Published:
Higher Education Policy Institute, 9 February 2022
From this blog post:
HEPI Director Nick Hillman:
* considers the arguments for and against the use of big data in higher education;
* looks at the reasons behind the growing use of metrics;
* and ends with a discussion on the increasing demands to contexualise metrics before using them for important decisions.