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Open learning

Kenneth Cukier, The Economist's data editor and author of a new book, discusses how big data can improve learning and why the education sector has been slow to embrace it

By Economist.com

KENNETH CUKIER, The Economist's data editor and author of a new book, discusses how big data can improve learning and why the education sector has been slow to embrace it

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