The following is a summary of the paper Theory of Workarounds....more...
Following is a summary of Johanson and Hasselbring (2018) and an exploration of what, if anything, it might suggest for learning design and learning analytics. Johanson and Hasselbring (2018) explore why scientists whom have been developing software to do science (computational science) haven't been using principles and practices from software engineering to develop this software. The idea is that such an understanding will help frame advice for how computational science can be improved through application of appropriate software engineering practice (**assumption**)....more...
David Jones, Celeste Lawson, Colin Beer, Hazel Jones...more...
The following provides a collection of information and resources associated with a paper and presentation given at ALASI 2017 - the Australian Learning Analytics Summer Institute in Brisbane on 30 November, 2017. Below you'll find an abstract, a recording of a version of the presentation, the presentation slides and the references....more...
The following post contains the content from a poster designed for the 2017 USQ Toowoomba L&T celebration event. It provides some rationale for a technology demonstrator at USQ based on the Moodle Activity Viewer....more...
What follows are the resources associated with a workshop being run at the University of Southern Queensland. As the title suggests, the aim is to get USQ folk started using the Moodle Activity Viewer to explore usage of Moodle activities and resources, and to briefly introduce the idea of digital renovation....more...
David Jones, Hazel Jones, Colin Beer, Celeste Lawson, Implications and questions for institutional learning analytics implementation arising from teacher DIY learning analytics, To appear in the proceedings of the 2017 Australian Learning Analytics Summer Institute (ALASI 2017)...more...
A few of us recently submitted a paper to ALASI'2017 that examined a "case study" of a teacher (me) engaging in a bit of DIY learning analytics. The case was used to drawing a few tentative conclusions and questions around the institutional implementation of learning analytics. The main conclusion is that teacher DIY learning analytics is largely ignored at the institutional level and that there appears to be a need and value to support it. The question is how (and then if supported, what happens)?...more...
"failure" (CC BY 2.0) by tinou bao...more...
Last year I started using with Perl to play with analytics around Moodle Book usage. This year, @beerc and I have been starting to play with Jupyter Notebooks and Python to play with analytics for meso-level practitioners (Hannon, 2013). Plotly provides a fairly useful platform for generating graphs of various types and sharing the data. Works well with a range of languages and Jupyter Notebooks....more...
My current institution is - like most other universities - attempting to make some use of learning analytics. The following uses a model of system conditions for sustainable uptake of learning analytics from Colvin et al (2016) to think about how/if those attempts might be enhanced. This is done by...more...
The first key takeaway from Motz, Teague and Shepard (2015) is...more...
Below you will find the slides, abstract, and references for a talk given to folk from the University of South Australia on 1 October, 2015. A later blog post outlines core parts of the argument....more...
Wood & Hollnagel (2006) start by presenting the Bounded Rationality syllogism...more...
Time to refine the visualisation of students by postcodes started earlier this week. Have another set of data to work with....more...
Riel and Pollin (2004) talk about a view of learning that sees learning occurring...more...
@marksmithers has just written a blog post that makes the following point...more...
The Moodlemoot'AU 2015 conference is running working groups one of which is looking at assessment analytics. In essence, trying to think about what can be done in the Moodle LMS code to enhance assessment....more...
The following documents some initial exploration into why, if, and how sentiment analysis might be added to the BIM module for Moodle. BIM is a tool that helps manage and mirror blog posts from individual student blogs. Sentiment analysis is an application of algorithms to identify the sentiment/emotions/polarity of a person/author through their writing and other artefacts. The theory is that sentiment analysis can alert a teacher if a student has written something that is deemed sad, worried, or confused; but also happy, confident etc....more...
The last assignment for the course EDC3100, ICT and Pedagogy was due to be submitted yesterday. Right now the Moodle assignment activity (a version somewhat modified by my institution) is showing that 193 of 318 enrolled students have submitted assignments....more...
The following is a summary and ad hoc thoughts on Macfadyen et al (2014)....more...
The following is a place holder for two presentations that are related. They are:...more...