The Horizon Report showcases a number of different examples of institutions that are using learning analytics in different ways.
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Sugata Mitra's talk on education, edtech and empire (at the 2013 TED prize) - a critique of the pedagogy from the view of the Indian slums Via Ana Cristina Pratas, Aki Puustinen
Linda Alexander's insight:
There are lessons gleaned from Mitra's TED Talk this particular critique (see below) seems to ignore. Yes, it's silly to believe we can educate the masses in slums across India simply by placing a computer in a hole in a wall here and there. On the contrary, Mitra's experiment speaks to the ability of children to learn a second language, science curriculum, etc. on their own given internal, self-motivation, to navigate technology and work well in small groups. I feel some of the lessons from his experiment may be applied to pedagogy elsewhere--and that's a good thing. Here's a sample of the critique:
"It would be nice to just ignore Mitra’s cukooland in the cloud view of history, but his idea of, for instance, a self-organising learning environment (SOLE) where children educate themselves online with as little intervention from the teacher as possible gets all its persuasive force from the perception that we are only a few steps away from a perpetually peaceful self-organising society – a society in which all the children of the slums will be equal participants once they figure out how to code and once they save up enough money for a laptop." 
Ana Cristina Pratas's curator insight,
March 15, 4:23 AM
Mitra’s radicalism keeps our opposition focused on the fate of those privileged children: “The students must be identical to each other…They must be so identical that you could pick one up from New Zealand and ship them to Canada and he would be instantly functional.” This way of telling the story not only conceals the greater injustice perpetrated beyond the ranks of the privileged, but it also empties the modern principle of identity – of equality – of all its political radicalism. Is there not an identity that deserves to be recognised? Every voice raised against imperial exclusion is a voice that claims a more fundamental equality – an equality that challenges empire. But the most questionable remark that Mitra makes about empire is the one he makes next: “The empire is gone.” Delete the scoop?
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Extremely interesting research being conducted, especially at Stanford and a few other universities...