An overview of learning analytics as of autumn 2012. Presentation to an internal OU audience (the Student Statistics and Surveys Team).
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Stanford's Lytics Lab gathers data from massive open online courses to learn more about how we learn. The group studies student behavior to measure interaction and performance. Via Susan Bainbridge 
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April 11, 7:54 PM
Without scanning the whole article, what do you think we can do to dive deeper into use patterns? That is, how can we go deeper than what is mentioned in this quote:
"They found that people take classes or stop for different reasons, and therefore referring globally to "dropouts" makes no sense in the online context. They identified four groups of participants: those who completed most assignments, those who audited, those who gradually disengaged and those who sporadically sampled. (Most students who sign up never actually show up, making their inclusion in the data problematic.) The point of all this is not simply to record who is doing what but to "provide educators, instructional designers and platform developers with insights for designing effective and potentially adaptive learning environments that best meet the needs of MOOC participants," the researchers wrote." 
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"This course will provide a generally non-technical introduction to learning analytics and how they are being deployed in various contexts in the education field. Additionally, the tools and methods, ethics and privacy, and systemic impact of analytics will be explored, presenting a broad overview of the current state and possible future directions of the field.
Capturing and analyzing data has changed how decisions are made and resources are allocated in the fields of business, journalism, government, military, and intelligence. Through better use of data, leaders are able to plan and enact strategies with greater clarity and confidence. Data is a value point that drives increased organizational efficiency and a competitive advantage. Analytics provide new insight and actionable intelligence. Companies such as Microsoft, IBM, Google, and Amazon are investing heavily in technologies and techniques to help individuals and organizations make sense of and unlock the value within big data..." Via Jenny Pesina Delete the scoop?
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There is probably no segment of activity in the education world attracting as much attention at present as that of knowledge management in terms of learning analytics. Learning analytics as defined... Delete the scoop?
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An overview of learning analytics as of autumn 2012. Presentation to an internal OU audience (the Student Statistics and Surveys Team).
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Very nice Infographic from OpenColleges about learning analytics. “When you hear “analytic,” you might think of... Via S. Lustenhouwer Delete the scoop?
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Data in the classroom is not new, it's just that new tools and software have begun to harness all the information and digest it. Here's a primary on what's next. Delete the scoop?
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Learning analytics tools can track far more data than an instructor can alone. For high-enrollment classes in particular, LA provides a support structure that monitors student progress and offers timely guidance to students whose academic under- performance might otherwise go quietly unnoticed. At their best, LA applications can identify factors that are unexpectedly associated with student learning and course completion. This information can be valuable both to students, in how they approach learning, and to faculty, in how they structure curricula. Via Nik Peachey Delete the scoop?
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GUEST COLUMN | By Deb Everhart Everyone is talking about analytics applied to education and how “big data” can (will?) transform many aspects of our educational institutions. And for those of u... Delete the scoop?
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"A number of experiments are using new kinds of data – such as how many times a student has clicked on an e-textbook or logged in to a class Web page – to measure and guide learning in new ways. That could improve the student experience, but it could also end up dumbing down college, argues Gardner Campbell, director of professional development and innovative initiatives at Virginia Tech."
I suppose it begs the question - what are effective ways of utilising the availability of these new data? - my first thought is that they may assist in identifying students who are finding difficulty. Delete the scoop?
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Many of the sessions are to be live streamed and there will be an active Twitter stream using #lak12 Delete the scoop?
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It was a great privilege and a lot of fun to do two talks at the ITK 2012 conference at Hämeenlinna, Finland, 19 April 2012. After my keynote this morning, we had a nice discussion session –... Delete the scoop?
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EDUCAUSE Learning Analytics talk http://t.co/4GXWAMsO...
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"Learning analytics ...will drive increasingly the dependency of administrations on LMSs" http://t.co/dwHRVj1a... Delete the scoop?
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How can Learning Analytics be used to bring about the true revolution traditionally assumed for MOOCs? With audiences in the thousands of users, the key is mass Delete the scoop?
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Part 7 of my Top Ed-Tech Trends of 2012 series
I chose “data” as one of the top trends of 2011, and the opening line of that article reads “If data was an important trend for 2011, I predict it will be even more so in 2012.” Indeed. There’s a great deal that happened in 2012 that’s a continuation of what we saw last year — enough that I could probably just copy-and-paste from the article I wrote back then: Delete the scoop?
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The Open Academic Analytics Initiative, an NGLC grant recipient, is seeking to engender an ecosystem for learning analytics based on open source technologies.
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Learning Analytics can leverage education data and have a true impact on student’s educational experience. Via SHIFT eLearning, Costas Vasiliou, Daniel Tan Delete the scoop?
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The State of Learning Analytics in 2012: A Review and Future Challenges, The Open University, March 2012. Author Rebecca Ferguson from the Open University's Knowledge Media Institute, provides a detailed look at the history of Learning Analytics research and what the future may hold. Delete the scoop?
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In today’s complex world, post-secondary institutions are under competitive, customer, and regulatory pressures to account for our business performance, our contribution to the societies we serve, our research productivity, and most important, our students’ success. Learning Analytics is seen as a key tool to enable us to do so. Delete the scoop?
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The Formation of a New Discipline It was a sentiment repeated several times throughout the Learning Analytics and Knowledge 2012 conference: this could the beginning of a new discipline. It’s something I’ve heard at recent big data events too (namely at O’Reilly Media’s Strata conferences): we are forming a new field, one with new tools and new practices and new objects of inquiry. Delete the scoop?
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A key next step in this research programme is to harvest and analyse data from the traces that learners leave as they engage in social digital spaces, and to explore its relationship to other data sets and data streams. This PhD will therefore fund a technically strong candidate to design, implement and evaluate “Learning Analytics for Learning Power”. The project will deploy iterative prototypes in authentic use contexts, considering OU platforms as a starting point (e.g. SocialLearn [9]; Cohere [10]; EnquiryBlogger [11]), but open to data streams from new kinds of digitally instrumented interactions (e.g. from Pervasive Computing; Augmented Reality; Quantified Self). A possible outcome is an analytics architecture open to diverse forms of input, grounded in a theoretically robust framework, generating visual analytics with transformative power for reflective learners. Delete the scoop?
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Learning Analytics in a Teachers' Social Network - The Quest for Social Capital. The Tellnet project participated in the Networked Learning Conference in Maastricht on April 3, 2012 and presented its current work in a sumposium called ... Delete the scoop?
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