Using educational data to

improve personalization

George Siemens, PhD

July 1, 2014

“The slightest move in the virtual landscape

has to be paid for in lines of code” Bruno Latour

Analytics around social interactions

Analytics around learning content

Analytics in different spaces (digital/F2F)

Analytics on interaction with the learning system (university/k-12)

Analytics on intervention and adaptation

Assessment of analytics

Siemens, American Behavioral Scientist 2013

Siemens, American Behavioral Scientist 2013

The model

Content that has been linked/mapped to

knowledge & key concepts

Learner knowledge graph

Personalization through social and

technological models

Personal Knowledge Graph

People – learners, students, everyone –

should have a personal knowledge graph

(PKG)

A network model of what we know

Learner-owned

Concept architecture

http://www.metacademy.org/

Knowledge Domains

Nursing

Computer Science

Landscaping

Personal Knowledge

Graph

82%

65%

38%

http://lak15.solaresearch.org/