Lisbon Learning Analytics
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Transcript of Lisbon Learning Analytics
An Introduction to the Role Learning and Knowledge Analytics in Education
George SiemensJuly 1, 2011
Happy Canada Day!!!
Analytics: most important educational trend of the last 100 years
No, really.
Why?
New premise for decision making, planning, resource allocation, teaching, delivery, intervention
Peak Social
The point at which we can gain no additional sensemaking value from increasing social connectedness
Significant interest in [buzzword]: big data, analytics, business intelligence
Who is going to get sick?
Who will fail?
What are learning analytics?
Learning analytics promises to harness the power of advances in data mining, interpretation, and modeling to improve understandings of teaching and learning, and to tailor education to individual students more effectively.
2011 Horizon Report
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.
Learning Analytics & Knowledge 2011 Conference
You are already being “analyzed”
Each recommendation, each suggestion, each resource…
Why?
If your daughter shops on your account…
Yeah, maybe not.
http://research.uow.edu.au/learningnetworks/seeing/snapp/index.html
Predicting the Present
Athabasca University,School of Computing and Information Services
Masters Course in Learning Analytics (Sept 2011)
change.mooc.ca
Twitter: gsiemens
www.elearnspace.org/blog
Learning Analytics & Knowledge 2012: Vancouver
http://lak12.sites.olt.ubc.ca/