Reusing Open Resources: Learning in Open Networks for Work, Life and Education
Back in 2003 I contributed a chapter to Allison LIttlejohn’s book Reusing Online Resources: A Sustainable Approach to E-learning and I’m delighted to say that, together with co-authors Sheila MacNeill...
View ArticleLearning Analytics Interoperability – The Big Picture in Brief
Learning Analytics is now moving from being a research interest to a wider community who seek to apply it in practice. As this happens, the challenge of efficiently and reliably moving data between...
View ArticleMore Data Doesn’t Always Lead to Better Choices – Lessons for Analytics...
An article appeared in the Times Higher Education online magazine recently (April 3, 2014) under the heading “More data can lead to poor student choices, Hefce [Higher Education Funding Council for...
View ArticleLearning Analytics: not just measuring but engaging students
Last week, I ran a workshop for the Lace project on “Learning Analytics: seeking answers at a time of big questions?” at the ALT-C14. The workshop was designed to bring together educators, researchers...
View ArticleOn the Question of Validity in Learning Analytics
The question of whether or not something works is a basic one to ask when investing time and money in changing practice and in using new technologies. For learning analytics, the moral dimension adds a...
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