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Alexa vs World University rankings
I was looking at Alexa’s Traffic Rank and how it allows you to compare websites. This got me thinking that evaluating a URL is a bit like evaluating an university or a college. You can compare its popularity, reference, credibility, incoming links, or measure its relative importance, influence, citations, etc. So I decided to compare ... Alexa vs World University rankings Read More
Canheit – Technology used in Canadian Institutions
As promised in my first Canheit tribute post, I have created a second vizualisation based on technology used by Canadian higher education institutions (colleges and universities). The following viz has 5 main graphs, each representing a different category. The size of each bubble represents the percentage for each system used compared the other systems in ... Canheit – Technology used in Canadian Institutions Read More
Canadian HigherEd Institutions
Since CANHEIT 2013 is being held in Ottawa and co-hosted by Carleton University and the great University of Ottawa (that’s right, I’m biased), I decided to do a few vizualisations about our Canadian HigherEd institutions. In this first vizualisation, I’m hopping to show general characteristics about our Canadian institutions. The next ones will be more ... Canadian HigherEd Institutions Read More
Historical compilation of 7 world universities rankings: huge drop for US, rise for French
After reading an article from HESA where the author explains (referring to Times Higher Education’s annual Reputation Rankings) that “only the position of the top 6 or so is genuinely secure. Below about tenth position, everyone else is packed so closely together that changes in rank order are basically guaranteed”, we wanted to see how ... Historical compilation of 7 world universities rankings: huge drop for US, rise for French Read More
The Best MOOCs
If you had to select the best Massively Open Online Courses (MOOCs) platforms, how would you do it? You could compile the individual course ratings offered on each system (see coursetalk.org) or you could do what several people do when choosing a program; look at university rankings to give you an indication of the quality ... The Best MOOCs Read More
World University rankings by Country – part 2
This is the second part of our world university rankings posts. See the first post that lists the top 100 universities (based on 9 world university rankings). Based on almost the same logic used in our first post, we took the top 300 universities and compiled the 9 world rankings. Note that, for some universities, ... World University rankings by Country – part 2 Read More
9 World University rankings – Side by side – part 1
See part 2 of this post The different world university rankings are somewhat controversial. Their methodology are often dissected to show flaws and universities often dislike them because of the influence they have come to wield. Not one ranking has been hailed as “the” definitive ranking and this is why we have so many. If ... 9 World University rankings – Side by side – part 1 Read More
LMS used in Canada
This small analysis, visualises the current learning management system (LMS) used in higher education institution across Canada. Play with the filters and let me know what you think. Read More
