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Now onto class 2 with the Data Mining with Weka MOOC....more...
The following is a "webified" version of an invited presentation at the Blended Learning 2013 Summit. This version is largely an experiment with this medium/approach to sharing the talk. The slides from the talk are shown below with a written version of what I might have hoped to have said during the talk....more...
And now for the second MOOC of the year - Data Mining with Weka from the University of Waikato. Weka is an open source data mining application. Time to find out a bit more about one of the technical aspects of learning analytics. Hoping this might be useful in terms of research with The Indicators Project (we should really update that site)....more...
Learning analytics is being enabled/driven/sparked by the concept of "big data", but for a while I've wondered just how big is the data being gathered by Universities. Preparations for a workshop earlier in the week provided an opportunity to find out....more...
2013 post updated for 2015 to (un)scientifically test for any changes over time....more...
A couple of weeks ago I expressed one of my reservations with the large buckets of money and time universities (and others) are currently investing in learning analytics in a blog post titled Bugger analytics, just give me useful information. My reservation is that the learning designers, data scientists, commercial software vendors, management and other members of Geohegan's (1994) technologists' alliance are so enamoured of the theoretical future possibilities of learning analytics they are ignoring (or perhaps are possibly completely ignorant) of the current information needs of learners and teachers. The following is an attempt at a small example...more...
The video below is of a talk by Brett Victor on "The Future of Programming". But don't let that stop you, underpinning the talk is an important message for folk involved in learning, teaching and most things. The two main points I took away from it are (as applied to my area of interest):...more...
Continuing my reading of some recent learning analytics journal articles, the following is a summary and some thoughts on...more...