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I’m at the 1st Learning Analytics and Knowledge conference, at the Banff Centre in Banff, Canada. Today – Sunday 27th February 2011 – is the Pre-Conference Workshops . It’s being streamed live. The hashtag is #LAK11, which is also the tag for the pre-conference open course on learning analytics. We are right in the middle of … Continue reading “LAK11: Learning Analytics And Knowledge, Banff”
Liveblog notes from the afternoon of the pre-conference workshop (Sunday 27 Feb 2011) of the Learning Analytics and Knowledge (LAK11) conference. There was an excellent discussion over lunch about the power of simple measures to infer great – and privacy-threatening – amounts of information. So, for instance, you can guess well at what appliances someone … Continue reading “LAK11 – Sunday afternoon”
Liveblog notes from the morning of Monday 28 February, the first full day of the Learning Analytics and Knowledge ’11 (LAK11) conference in Banff, Canada. (Previously: The Learning Analytics Cycle, liveblog notes from Pre-Conference Workshop morning and afternoon.) George Siemens – Welcome Thanks to TEKRI at Athabasca; Centre of Educational Innovation and Technology, U Queensland; … Continue reading “LAK11: Monday morning”
Liveblog notes from the afternoon session on Monday 28 February, the first full day of the Learning Analytics and Knowledge ’11 (LAK11) conference in Banff, Canada. (Previously: The Learning Analytics Cycle, liveblog notes from Pre-Conference Workshop morning and afternoon, and from Monday morning.) Introduction to Xavier Ochoa. Principal Professor at ESPOL, Ecuador. Work on learning objects, inventor of ‘learnometrics’
Liveblog notes from the morning session on Tuesday 1 March, the second full day of the Learning Analytics and Knowledge ’11 (LAK11) conference in Banff, Canada. (Previously: The Learning Analytics Cycle, liveblog notes from Pre-Conference Workshop morning and afternoon, and from Monday morning and afternoon.) It’s fearsomely cold here – about -30C this morning – but stunningly beautiful. This is … Continue reading “LAK11 – Tuesday morning”
Liveblog notes from the afternoon session on Tuesday 1 March, the second full day of the Learning Analytics and Knowledge ’11 (LAK11) conference in Banff, Canada. [Edit 3 Feb 2014: Comments disabled because of spam – do comment on others if you want to say something.] (Previously: The Learning Analytics Cycle, liveblog notes from Pre-Conference Workshop morning and afternoon, … Continue reading “LAK11 – Tuesday afternoon”
What is learning analytics? Well, the LAK11 open course has generated a useful definition: Learning analytics is the measurement, collection, analysis and reporting of data about learners and their contexts, for purposes of understanding and optimizing learning and the environments in which it occurs. Reflecting on this and everything else from the pre-conference workshop at … Continue reading “The Learning Analytics Cycle”
There’s a serious danger, I think, in Learning Analytics, of producing and processing ever more data in ever more exciting and attractive ways, but which aren’t connected up to making things any different for learners. As Marx famously put it in his Theses on Feuerbach, Die Philosophen haben die Welt nur verschieden interpretiert; es kommt … Continue reading “Marx and Learning Analytics: Towards a praxis of educational improvement”
This is the first full day of the LAK12 conference. Shane Dawson welcomes everyone, and outlines practical arrangements. Apparently there is only one toilet for all 210 attenders so tickets will be issued. Simon Buckingham Shum and Dragan Gasevic introduce the programme. Simon talks about what makes LAK special: friendly, sharing, multidisciplinary and bringing researchers … Continue reading “LAK12: Monday morning”
Liveblog notes from the opening keynote on Tuesday at LAK12. Shane Dawson welcomes everyone and outlines practical arrangements. George Siemens talks about SoLAR. Last year, had a post-conference meeting. SoLAR is trying not to be prescriptive. SoLAR Flare – regional conferences, in different parts of the world, October 1-3rd is first at Purdue. Events planned … Continue reading “LAK12 Keynote: Visual Analytics in Support of Education”
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