The Technology Horizon implications for assessment
Phil MarstonCentre for Academic DevelopmentUniversity of Aberdeen
Heads-up What’s on the horizon
Overview
• Learning Analytics
• Tin Can API
• Open Badges
Key Concept Gartner’s Hype Cycle
Learning Analytics
• Huge amounts of data being generated
• Storage & processing power available exponentially
• Patterns of relationships hidden in that data
• Algorithms being developed
• Dashboards being developed
Learning Analytics
• Huge amounts of data being generated
• Storage & processing power available exponentially
• Patterns of relationships hidden in that data
• Algorithms being developed
• Dashboards being developed
Learning Analytics
• Huge amounts of data being generated
• Storage & processing power available exponentially
• Patterns of relationships hidden in that data
• Algorithms being developed
• Dashboards being developed
Learning Analytics
• Huge amounts of data being generated
• Storage & processing power available exponentially
• Patterns of relationships hidden in that data
• Algorithms being developed
• Dashboards being developed
Learning Analytics
• Huge amounts of data being generated
• Storage & processing power available exponentially
• Patterns of relationships hidden in that data
• Algorithms being developed
• Dashboards being developed
Tin Can API
• SCORM
• Experience
• Subject, verb, object (I did this)
Tin Can API
• SCORM
• Experience
• Subject, verb, object (I did this)
Tin Can API
• SCORM
• Experience
• Subject, verb, object (I did this)
Open Badges
• Digital certificates with embedded metadata
• Will be endorsable
• Providing employers with the information they need
Open Badges
• Digital certificates with embedded metadata
• Will be endorsable
• Providing employers with the information they need
Open Badges
• Digital certificates with embedded metadata
• Will be endorsable
• Providing employers with the information they need
Implications What’s the role of HE?
Any Questions?
Phil MarstonCentre for Academic DevelopmentUniversity of Aberdeen
Resources
• Learning Analytics
• NMC Horizon Reports http://www.nmc.org/horizon-project/horizon-reports
• Purdue http://www.educause.edu/ero/article/signals-using-academic-analytics-promote-student-success
• JISC http://jisc.cetis.ac.uk/topic/learning_analytics
• Tin Can API
• http://tincanapi.com
• Open Badges
• Mozilla http://openbadges.org
• JISC http://www.rsc-scotland.org/eassessment/tag/open-badges/
Image Credits
• Slide 4 Gartner's 2012 Hype Cycle for Emerging Technologies http://www.gartner.com/newsroom/id/2124315
• Slide 6 Aberdeen University ‘Maxwell’ High Performance Computing Facility http://www.abdn.ac.uk/news/details-13807.php
• Slide 7 Map of science derived from clickstream data http://www.plosone.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal.pone.0004803
• Slide 10 SCORM, repositories and competencies - The big picture by Claude Ostyn http://www.ostyn.com/standards/prop/SCORM_competencies_repositories.htm
• Slide 11 Making Sense of Tin Can API by Liz Burrow http://burlix.wordpress.com/2012/06/19/making-sense-of-tincan-api/
• Slide 12 Toyota environmentally conscious driving simulator by Eric Chan. Creative Commons license CC BY http://www.flickr.com/photos/maveric2003/2143217328/
• Slide 13 “Badge Anatomy” by Class Hack. Creative Commons license CC BY-SA http://www.waynebarry.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/Open-Badge-Anatomy.png
• Slide 14 Endorse project logo Creative Commons license CC BY-NC-SA http://ict-endorse.eu
• Slide 15 Digital Resume by Linda Zivnustkova http://www.lindazivnustkova.com/resume.html
• All other images fotolia.com
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