An Introduction to the Role Learning and Knowledge Analytics in Education

George SiemensJuly 1, 2011

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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

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www.elearnspace.org/blog

Learning Analytics & Knowledge 2012: Vancouver

http://lak12.sites.olt.ubc.ca/