LAK12: Keynote

Learning Analytics: Envisioning a Research Discipline and a Domain of PracticeGeorge SiemensVancouver, BCMay 2, 2012

Growth of LA interestVendorsDriven by externalization of data, new collectionformats

Domains of LA activity & impactLearningNetwork analysisContent analysisPersonalization and adaptationPrediction & InterventionSystemic impact 4

“All-embracing technique is in fact theconsciousness of the mechanized world.Technique integrates everything. It avoids shockand sensational events” Ellul, 1964

Will LA lock-down or open up education?

Research-practice gap

Inter-disciplinary emphasisTechnical, pedagogical, and social domains mustbe brought into dialogue with each other toensure that interventions and organizationalsystems serve the needs of all stakeholders.

Holistic and Integrated Research/ Practice RelationshipsThe U.S. Department of Education has statedthat the “next 5 years will bring an increase inmodels for collaboration between learningsystem designers, researchers, and educators” Enhancing Teaching and Learning through Educational Data Mining and Learning Analytics, 2012

To advance as a field, LA researchersand practitioners need to address the following:(a) development of new tools, techniques, andpeople;(b) data: openness, ethics, and scope;(c) target of analytics activity; and(d) connections to related fields andpractitioners.

(a) development of new tools, techniques, andpeople;(b) data: openness, ethics, and scope;(c) target of analytics activity; and(d) connections to related fields andpractitioners.

Development of tools that are practitioner-focused, rather than researcher-focused

Techniques:Discourse analysis, early warningsystems, attention metadata, recommendersystems, tutoring and learner models, networkanalysis, participatory learning and reputationmechanisms, NLP, latent semanticanalysis, information flow, sentimentanalysis, concept development, automatedevaluation, real-time, etc

Many analytics techniques are important – areflection of LA’s youth

Capacity building: peopleCertificates, research/doctoralseminars, ongoing PDOn: tools, techniques, research models/methods

The growing prominence of protected IP can(will) hinder iterative and rapid development ofLA techniques

Innovation in LA most significant in the vendorspace.Many vendor-driven innovations are closed anddo not meet the basic needs of researchers:open, testable, accessible, and improvablealgorithms and tools

OpennessDatasets for researchers & studentsTransparency (algorithms, weighting)Data ownership & access to analytics resultsCultural/contextual: ability to customize

Ethics

Scope of data capture:moving beyond the LMSanddigital-only view of analytics

Integration & usability

Beyond technical:LA forsensemakingfor learners, educators, administrators

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Influencing learning and learning institutions

Learning SciencesIEDMS

Not everyone has one of these:

Analytics as a multi-person/skill activityMultiple skillsets rather than only one person(i.e. connected specialization)

QuestionsWhat is the balance point betweencomputers/people?Role of theory? Validate theory? Theoryemergence?

How will we know we’ve been “successful”?Research-informed tools for analyticsContributions to the science of learning thatinfluences classroom(learning space)-levelpractice through integration LA tools/techniques

What is missing?What have you found missing in LAK12?Own the solution

Getting involved with SoLARFounding organizations(universities, corporations)

SoLAR Flare Practitioner’s Conference: Perspectives from the Trenches October 1-3, 2012 West Lafayette, IN

literature and research in three primary domains: networksand social media, learning analytics and datamining, and thefuture of learning and learning institutions.

gsiemens@gmail.comTwitter/Facebook: gsiemens

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