Collaborators: Royce Kimmons, Amy Collier, Emily Schneider, & Peter Shepherdson

Funders: Canada Research Chairs program, NSF, RRU

Royal Roads University

Emerging practices and technologies

Online learning: Emerging

1. Research into online learning is becoming more interdisciplinary

A positive trend, but we need collaborators more than others writing

about education.

“By collecting every click, homework submission, quiz and forum note from

tens of thousands of students, Coursera [a MOOC platform] is a data mine that

offers a new way to study learning” (May, 2012),

2. Data, data, everywhere

2. Data, data, everywhere

Can online learning be fully understood and improved using data trails?

3. Life’s daily realities shaping learning and participation

4. Notetaking – on paper

4. Notetaking – digital

Image attribution •  Royal Roads University, Hatley Caste

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