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Learning Analytics: Making learning better?
Dr Doug ClowInstitute of Educational Technology, The Open University, UK
@dougclowdougclow.orgdoug.clow@open.ac.uk
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What is learning analytics?
• the measurement, collection, analysis and reporting of data about learners and their contexts, for purposes of understanding and optimising learning and the environments in which it occurs – First International Conference on Learning Analytics And Knowledge (LAK11), Banff, Alberta, Feb 27-
Mar 1, 2011
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- Erik Duval http://erikduval.wordpress.com/2012/01/30/learning-analytics-and-educational-data-mining/
“collecting traces that learners leave behind and using those traces to improve learning”
“feeding back the data exhaust”
Big Data in Education
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Dispositions analytics
• Learning dispositions
• ‘Learning power’: Effective Lifelong Learning Inventory
• “A framework for a coaching conversation which moves between identity and performance”
• Schools to Graduate schools
9Buckingham Shum and Deakin Crick, 2012 (LAK12)
What data do we have about learners?
• Demographics
• Previous educational experience
• Grades, scores, achievements, struggles
• Attendance, location, gaze
• Software logs
• Online tracking
• Other online activity (tracking)
• … more every week.
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What can we do with that data?
• Identify learners who need help– Simple or predictive
• Trigger interventions
– Via teacher, or direct
• Learn which interventions work
• Build a complete cognitive learning system
• Suggest resources or source of help– Learners like you found this helpful
– This person might be able to help you
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support
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guidance
Glasswinged butterfly, ? Greta oro
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Principles
• Privacy
• Data protection
• Ethics
• Transparency
www.laceproject.euLearning Analytics Community Exchange (FP7)
• Coordination and Support
• Evidence Hub
• Events
• Publications, briefings, webinars
Thanks to:
People:
• LACE at the OU: Rebecca Ferguson, Simon Cross, Linda Norwood Michelle
Bailey, Rebecca Wilson, Evaghn De Souza, Natalie Eggleston, Oliver
Millard, Gary Elliot-Citigottis,
• LACE project partners: CETIS (Bolton), OUNL, Skolverket, HIOA,
Kennisnet, ITS, ATiT.
• The learning analytics community, including SoLAR, IEDMS, those I’ve met
at LAK and LASI
Funders:
• LACE: European Commission 619424-FP7-ICT-2013-11
“Learning Analytics: Making Learning Better?” by Doug Clow, Institute of Educational Technology, The Open University, was presented at Bett, London, on 23 January 2015.
@dougclowdougclow.orgdoug.clow@open.ac.uk
This work was undertaken as part of the LACE Project, supported by the European Commission Seventh Framework Programme, grant 619424.
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