Este taller que forma parte de la II Semana Doctoral Formación en la Sociedad del Conocimiento.
Docente: Daniel Burgos (Universidad Internacional de la Rioja)
Este taller que forma parte de la II Semana Doctoral Formación en la Sociedad del Conocimiento.
Docente: Daniel Burgos (Universidad Internacional de la Rioja)
This document discusses the state of the Bologna Process and outlines perspectives for international cooperation in higher education. It notes that 48 countries have collaborated to implement core principles of the European Higher Education Area through commitments like quality assurance standards. Looking ahead to the 2018 ministerial conference, it aims to further implementation, address new challenges like digitalization, and develop an international cooperation policy by revising the Bologna Policy Forum to enhance mobility and address global issues through partnerships with other regions. Specific actions are proposed to prepare common tools and strengthen partnerships before 2018.
I-HE2020 European Approach to Micro-credentialsEADTU
The document discusses the European approach to micro-credentials. It notes the increased demand for online learning and alternative credentials due to COVID-19 and changing workforce needs. It advocates developing a common definition of micro-credentials and ensuring quality assurance and recognition at both the European and national levels. The document proposes next steps including publishing an expert report in late 2020, public consultations in early 2021, and a Council Recommendation by the end of 2021 to establish a framework for micro-credentials.
Presentation at the conference: The New Student: flexible learning paths and future learning environments. Austria's Presidency Event, Vienna 21st Sept 2018
Este taller que forma parte de la II Semana Doctoral Formación en la Sociedad del Conocimiento.
Docente: Daniel Burgos (Universidad Internacional de la Rioja)
Este taller que forma parte de la II Semana Doctoral Formación en la Sociedad del Conocimiento.
Docente: Daniel Burgos (Universidad Internacional de la Rioja)
This document discusses the state of the Bologna Process and outlines perspectives for international cooperation in higher education. It notes that 48 countries have collaborated to implement core principles of the European Higher Education Area through commitments like quality assurance standards. Looking ahead to the 2018 ministerial conference, it aims to further implementation, address new challenges like digitalization, and develop an international cooperation policy by revising the Bologna Policy Forum to enhance mobility and address global issues through partnerships with other regions. Specific actions are proposed to prepare common tools and strengthen partnerships before 2018.
I-HE2020 European Approach to Micro-credentialsEADTU
The document discusses the European approach to micro-credentials. It notes the increased demand for online learning and alternative credentials due to COVID-19 and changing workforce needs. It advocates developing a common definition of micro-credentials and ensuring quality assurance and recognition at both the European and national levels. The document proposes next steps including publishing an expert report in late 2020, public consultations in early 2021, and a Council Recommendation by the end of 2021 to establish a framework for micro-credentials.
Presentation at the conference: The New Student: flexible learning paths and future learning environments. Austria's Presidency Event, Vienna 21st Sept 2018
This document discusses the ECTS and Diploma Supplement labels, which recognize higher education institutions that have fully implemented these Bologna Process tools. It provides information on the 2009-2010 application process, including promotion of the labels, screening of applications, selection results with over 20 institutions receiving each label, lessons learned from the process, and future plans to network label holders and promote use of the labels.
The document discusses major reforms underway in European higher education through the Bologna Process to create a more compatible and coherent system across countries. It outlines the key drivers for change, achievements so far including new degree structures and quality assurance systems, ongoing challenges, and debates around the future direction. The reforms are increasingly taking on a global dimension and influencing other regions, which could impact Canada as an international study destination.
How to deal with companies that are project partnersPedro Príncipe
This document summarizes a liaison training event about how to deal with companies that are project partners. It discusses the challenges of open access and companies having different needs. It provides scenarios of how companies can participate as project partners and outlines strategies for identifying their publications and disseminating information to stakeholders. The document concludes with proposing direct individual outreach and using social media as effective communication strategies.
I-HE2020 Introduction to EMC & Common Microcredential FrameworkEADTU
The document discusses the Erasmus+ European MOOC Consortium Labour Market (EMC-LM) initiative, which brings together MOOC platforms, universities, and public employment services to provide continuous learning opportunities for the European labor market through MOOCs. The goals of EMC-LM are to 1) create a framework defining the roles of various stakeholders in developing and delivering MOOCs, 2) empower organizations to co-develop, co-deliver, and use MOOCs for continuous education and training, and 3) integrate MOOCs into current education and training offerings across the EU.
E slp policy forum 28 may 2021 by esteban vazquez cano (uned)EADTU
The document discusses recommendations for institutional, governmental, and EU policymakers regarding microcredentials and short learning programs (SLPs). It recommends that policymakers: (1) build frameworks for recognizing continuing education qualifications, (2) foster international collaboration on common frameworks, and (3) develop strategic plans for microcredentials that are stackable to degree programs. It also provides specific recommendations at the institutional, government, and EU levels to integrate microcredentials and SLPs and develop lifelong learning.
The document discusses the European Higher Education Area (EHEA) and Macedonia's prospects within it. It provides background on the EHEA, which aims to make higher education systems across Europe more comparable, compatible, and coherent. The EHEA now includes 49 countries and over 10,000 institutions. The document then examines Macedonia's participation in the EHEA through various programs and agreements. While progress has been made, challenges remain for Macedonia to meet goals like increasing student mobility abroad to 20% by 2020. The document concludes by recommending ways to strengthen Macedonia's involvement in the EHEA going forward.
E slp policy forum - institutional policies by ingrid thaler (fern uni)EADTU
The document discusses surveys conducted on short learning programs (SLPs) at partner institutions and their strategic embedding. It finds that SLPs vary significantly in size, language, entry requirements, and quality assurance practices. Recommendations are provided to standardize SLPs as 5-30 ECTS academic units integrated into the Bologna Process, develop a fast quality assurance process, dedicate European funding for SLP development, and increase their visibility through an online repository. SLPs could help maintain learner interest in higher education, challenge existing business models, and act as incubators for innovation if given proper recognition.
The Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (UOC) is the first fully virtual university in the world. It was founded in 1995 by the Catalan government to provide flexible education opportunities using information and communication technologies. The UOC has an innovative educational model that is student-centered and asynchronous. It now has over 45,000 students and offers a wide range of undergraduate and postgraduate programs. The university is working to internationalize and position itself as a leader in online education, eLearning technologies, and knowledge creation.
I-HE2020 Digitally back and forth? New mobility patterns across EuropeEADTU
The document discusses how COVID-19 has impacted international student mobility in Germany and Europe. A DAAD study found that 80,000 international students left Germany after the outbreak and two-thirds of German universities saw disrupted study plans. Universities responded by offering virtual options, but uncertainty remains around how many students will utilize these. The DAAD has launched new digital programs to support internationalization efforts during the pandemic, including programs for virtual academic collaboration and digitizing international master's programs. Overall, the pandemic has accelerated digitalization in higher education and international cooperation.
The document discusses frameworks and tools developed by the European Commission to support the professional development of academics in digital competencies and open education practices. It summarizes the DigCompEdu and OpenEdu frameworks, which describe the digital skills and open education practices academics need. It also describes the DigCompEdu self-assessment tool, which allows educators to evaluate their digital skills levels. Finally, it discusses challenges to professional development in higher education and examples of innovative practices to overcome these challenges.
E slp policy forum dce 28 may 2021 by Päivi Kananen and Virpi Uotinen (JYU)EADTU
This document summarizes the development of a collaborative online education program called "Digitally Competent Educators" between four European universities. The program aims to develop educators' digital competences through three online modules based on the EU's Digital Competence Framework for Educators. The universities collaborated in designing a flexible, scalable curriculum using the framework, selecting a learning platform, and establishing joint administration like grading and certificates. They continue working together to evaluate and market the program annually.
E-SLP teaching staff stakeholder event 20 May 2021 by Tom Melai (OUNL)EADTU
More flexibility in the form of education, allowing students to choose where and when to study, was deemed the most desirable development in higher education after the pandemic. The document discusses microcredentials and short learning programmes in European higher education, which offer smaller certifiable learning units of 5-30 ECTS credits that focus on specific skills. Recognition, accreditation, and legal frameworks are challenges, but these programmes have potential if quality assurance is emphasized and connections are made to formal education. Uniform terminology and clear reporting of level and size are advised to support stackability and recognition.
The document summarizes the mission and activities of UNA Europa, an alliance of European universities. Its key goals include (1) promoting European values and identity through international and interdisciplinary education, (2) increasing the quality, performance and competitiveness of European higher education, and (3) making the knowledge triangle of education, research and innovation a reality. UNA Europa aims to establish an integrated European university campus with innovative curricula and at least 50% student mobility. It focuses on sustainability, cultural heritage, data science and AI. Recent activities include doctoral workshops, a student congress, and successful Horizon 2020 and Erasmus+ grants for postdoctoral fellowships and an online learning hub.
No one left behind, uned strategies (staff support webinar)EADTU
by José Luis Aznarte Mellado, Deputy Vice-Chancellor of Intelligent Data Management. Llanos Tobarra Abad, Deputy Vice-Chancellor of Digital Contents Production. Ángeles Sánchez-Elvira Paniagua IUED Director. Vice-Rectorate of Digitalization and Innovation, UNED. Staff support webinar, 21 September 2020
This higher education case study presentation was delivered by Rosemary Borup during the measuring employability workshop of the December 2015 Learning Networks event held in Cardiff.
2021 slp policy forum sl ps, microcredentials, modularity by george ubachs ...EADTU
This document discusses short learning programmes, microcredentials, and modularity in European higher education. It provides an overview of these topics and their relevance in lifelong learning. Specifically, it notes that short learning programmes and microcredentials can better meet learners' time horizons, motivate continued study, and recognize continuing education. The Common Microcredential Framework aims to harmonize the wide variation in certificates. Modularity supports continuing education through flexible, stacked credentials from micro-learning to degrees. National and EU policies are developing frameworks for these qualifications and lifelong learning.
Recognition of short learning programmes policy forum - may 28 2021 by clare ...EADTU
The document discusses recognition of short learning programmes (SLPs) and microcredentials in European higher education. It provides an overview of the benefits of recognition for learners, institutions, and employers. While most partner institutions can recognize credits within their own system, recognition policies vary between countries and there is no overarching European framework. Recognition is at the discretion of individual institutions rather than governed by national policy. The document recommends that SLPs follow principles of recognition, be at EQF levels 5-8, have clear learning outcomes, and consider prior learning. Recognition of prior learning should be assessed for relevance against SLP learning outcomes.
This document discusses questions institutions should consider regarding mobility and cooperation outside of the European Union based on lessons from higher education. It suggests asking what is in it for students, institutions, and countries. For students, mobility can provide relevant skills, generic skills, and recognition of learning outcomes. Institutions benefit from added reputation, international networks, and long-term gains. Countries and the EU gain a better skilled workforce, relevant skills for workers, and international degree holders who act as ambassadors. Cooperation works in both directions between institutions.
EDEN - NAP Online Seminar on the 29th January 2020.
I focus on the 'beyond' showing the OPen Education Guidelines for Academics. And the DigCompEdu's Check in tool now also has an area related to open education!
The document discusses visions for the future of learning analytics based on a presentation given by Rebecca Ferguson. It outlines several potential futures for learning analytics, including learners being monitored by their learning environments, learners' personal data being tracked, and learners controlling their own data. It also discusses various challenges regarding ethics, regulation, validity, and affect that will need to be addressed for learning analytics to achieve its potential while avoiding negative consequences. The overall message is that learning analytics show promise to improve education if developed and applied carefully and ethically with student well-being and consent as top priorities.
Big data has the potential to transform nursing education and healthcare. It allows analysis of large, diverse datasets to reveal patterns and trends. Nursing has a long history of using data to improve patient care. Now, with big data and analytics, insights can be gained from vast amounts of structured and unstructured data from various sources. This can help personalize learning and predict outcomes. However, challenges include technical issues, privacy concerns, and developing a data-driven culture. With collaboration across sectors and letting the data speak, big data can advance nursing knowledge and the learning healthcare system.
This document discusses the ECTS and Diploma Supplement labels, which recognize higher education institutions that have fully implemented these Bologna Process tools. It provides information on the 2009-2010 application process, including promotion of the labels, screening of applications, selection results with over 20 institutions receiving each label, lessons learned from the process, and future plans to network label holders and promote use of the labels.
The document discusses major reforms underway in European higher education through the Bologna Process to create a more compatible and coherent system across countries. It outlines the key drivers for change, achievements so far including new degree structures and quality assurance systems, ongoing challenges, and debates around the future direction. The reforms are increasingly taking on a global dimension and influencing other regions, which could impact Canada as an international study destination.
How to deal with companies that are project partnersPedro Príncipe
This document summarizes a liaison training event about how to deal with companies that are project partners. It discusses the challenges of open access and companies having different needs. It provides scenarios of how companies can participate as project partners and outlines strategies for identifying their publications and disseminating information to stakeholders. The document concludes with proposing direct individual outreach and using social media as effective communication strategies.
I-HE2020 Introduction to EMC & Common Microcredential FrameworkEADTU
The document discusses the Erasmus+ European MOOC Consortium Labour Market (EMC-LM) initiative, which brings together MOOC platforms, universities, and public employment services to provide continuous learning opportunities for the European labor market through MOOCs. The goals of EMC-LM are to 1) create a framework defining the roles of various stakeholders in developing and delivering MOOCs, 2) empower organizations to co-develop, co-deliver, and use MOOCs for continuous education and training, and 3) integrate MOOCs into current education and training offerings across the EU.
E slp policy forum 28 may 2021 by esteban vazquez cano (uned)EADTU
The document discusses recommendations for institutional, governmental, and EU policymakers regarding microcredentials and short learning programs (SLPs). It recommends that policymakers: (1) build frameworks for recognizing continuing education qualifications, (2) foster international collaboration on common frameworks, and (3) develop strategic plans for microcredentials that are stackable to degree programs. It also provides specific recommendations at the institutional, government, and EU levels to integrate microcredentials and SLPs and develop lifelong learning.
The document discusses the European Higher Education Area (EHEA) and Macedonia's prospects within it. It provides background on the EHEA, which aims to make higher education systems across Europe more comparable, compatible, and coherent. The EHEA now includes 49 countries and over 10,000 institutions. The document then examines Macedonia's participation in the EHEA through various programs and agreements. While progress has been made, challenges remain for Macedonia to meet goals like increasing student mobility abroad to 20% by 2020. The document concludes by recommending ways to strengthen Macedonia's involvement in the EHEA going forward.
E slp policy forum - institutional policies by ingrid thaler (fern uni)EADTU
The document discusses surveys conducted on short learning programs (SLPs) at partner institutions and their strategic embedding. It finds that SLPs vary significantly in size, language, entry requirements, and quality assurance practices. Recommendations are provided to standardize SLPs as 5-30 ECTS academic units integrated into the Bologna Process, develop a fast quality assurance process, dedicate European funding for SLP development, and increase their visibility through an online repository. SLPs could help maintain learner interest in higher education, challenge existing business models, and act as incubators for innovation if given proper recognition.
The Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (UOC) is the first fully virtual university in the world. It was founded in 1995 by the Catalan government to provide flexible education opportunities using information and communication technologies. The UOC has an innovative educational model that is student-centered and asynchronous. It now has over 45,000 students and offers a wide range of undergraduate and postgraduate programs. The university is working to internationalize and position itself as a leader in online education, eLearning technologies, and knowledge creation.
I-HE2020 Digitally back and forth? New mobility patterns across EuropeEADTU
The document discusses how COVID-19 has impacted international student mobility in Germany and Europe. A DAAD study found that 80,000 international students left Germany after the outbreak and two-thirds of German universities saw disrupted study plans. Universities responded by offering virtual options, but uncertainty remains around how many students will utilize these. The DAAD has launched new digital programs to support internationalization efforts during the pandemic, including programs for virtual academic collaboration and digitizing international master's programs. Overall, the pandemic has accelerated digitalization in higher education and international cooperation.
The document discusses frameworks and tools developed by the European Commission to support the professional development of academics in digital competencies and open education practices. It summarizes the DigCompEdu and OpenEdu frameworks, which describe the digital skills and open education practices academics need. It also describes the DigCompEdu self-assessment tool, which allows educators to evaluate their digital skills levels. Finally, it discusses challenges to professional development in higher education and examples of innovative practices to overcome these challenges.
E slp policy forum dce 28 may 2021 by Päivi Kananen and Virpi Uotinen (JYU)EADTU
This document summarizes the development of a collaborative online education program called "Digitally Competent Educators" between four European universities. The program aims to develop educators' digital competences through three online modules based on the EU's Digital Competence Framework for Educators. The universities collaborated in designing a flexible, scalable curriculum using the framework, selecting a learning platform, and establishing joint administration like grading and certificates. They continue working together to evaluate and market the program annually.
E-SLP teaching staff stakeholder event 20 May 2021 by Tom Melai (OUNL)EADTU
More flexibility in the form of education, allowing students to choose where and when to study, was deemed the most desirable development in higher education after the pandemic. The document discusses microcredentials and short learning programmes in European higher education, which offer smaller certifiable learning units of 5-30 ECTS credits that focus on specific skills. Recognition, accreditation, and legal frameworks are challenges, but these programmes have potential if quality assurance is emphasized and connections are made to formal education. Uniform terminology and clear reporting of level and size are advised to support stackability and recognition.
The document summarizes the mission and activities of UNA Europa, an alliance of European universities. Its key goals include (1) promoting European values and identity through international and interdisciplinary education, (2) increasing the quality, performance and competitiveness of European higher education, and (3) making the knowledge triangle of education, research and innovation a reality. UNA Europa aims to establish an integrated European university campus with innovative curricula and at least 50% student mobility. It focuses on sustainability, cultural heritage, data science and AI. Recent activities include doctoral workshops, a student congress, and successful Horizon 2020 and Erasmus+ grants for postdoctoral fellowships and an online learning hub.
No one left behind, uned strategies (staff support webinar)EADTU
by José Luis Aznarte Mellado, Deputy Vice-Chancellor of Intelligent Data Management. Llanos Tobarra Abad, Deputy Vice-Chancellor of Digital Contents Production. Ángeles Sánchez-Elvira Paniagua IUED Director. Vice-Rectorate of Digitalization and Innovation, UNED. Staff support webinar, 21 September 2020
This higher education case study presentation was delivered by Rosemary Borup during the measuring employability workshop of the December 2015 Learning Networks event held in Cardiff.
2021 slp policy forum sl ps, microcredentials, modularity by george ubachs ...EADTU
This document discusses short learning programmes, microcredentials, and modularity in European higher education. It provides an overview of these topics and their relevance in lifelong learning. Specifically, it notes that short learning programmes and microcredentials can better meet learners' time horizons, motivate continued study, and recognize continuing education. The Common Microcredential Framework aims to harmonize the wide variation in certificates. Modularity supports continuing education through flexible, stacked credentials from micro-learning to degrees. National and EU policies are developing frameworks for these qualifications and lifelong learning.
Recognition of short learning programmes policy forum - may 28 2021 by clare ...EADTU
The document discusses recognition of short learning programmes (SLPs) and microcredentials in European higher education. It provides an overview of the benefits of recognition for learners, institutions, and employers. While most partner institutions can recognize credits within their own system, recognition policies vary between countries and there is no overarching European framework. Recognition is at the discretion of individual institutions rather than governed by national policy. The document recommends that SLPs follow principles of recognition, be at EQF levels 5-8, have clear learning outcomes, and consider prior learning. Recognition of prior learning should be assessed for relevance against SLP learning outcomes.
This document discusses questions institutions should consider regarding mobility and cooperation outside of the European Union based on lessons from higher education. It suggests asking what is in it for students, institutions, and countries. For students, mobility can provide relevant skills, generic skills, and recognition of learning outcomes. Institutions benefit from added reputation, international networks, and long-term gains. Countries and the EU gain a better skilled workforce, relevant skills for workers, and international degree holders who act as ambassadors. Cooperation works in both directions between institutions.
EDEN - NAP Online Seminar on the 29th January 2020.
I focus on the 'beyond' showing the OPen Education Guidelines for Academics. And the DigCompEdu's Check in tool now also has an area related to open education!
The document discusses visions for the future of learning analytics based on a presentation given by Rebecca Ferguson. It outlines several potential futures for learning analytics, including learners being monitored by their learning environments, learners' personal data being tracked, and learners controlling their own data. It also discusses various challenges regarding ethics, regulation, validity, and affect that will need to be addressed for learning analytics to achieve its potential while avoiding negative consequences. The overall message is that learning analytics show promise to improve education if developed and applied carefully and ethically with student well-being and consent as top priorities.
Big data has the potential to transform nursing education and healthcare. It allows analysis of large, diverse datasets to reveal patterns and trends. Nursing has a long history of using data to improve patient care. Now, with big data and analytics, insights can be gained from vast amounts of structured and unstructured data from various sources. This can help personalize learning and predict outcomes. However, challenges include technical issues, privacy concerns, and developing a data-driven culture. With collaboration across sectors and letting the data speak, big data can advance nursing knowledge and the learning healthcare system.
This document discusses open data in education. It begins by defining open data and providing examples of open education data sets. Potential uses of open education data include supporting students, schools, and governments/policymakers. Challenges include privacy, ensuring data quality while collecting large quantities of data, and preventing a "reductionist myth" where complex issues are oversimplified. Overall, open data holds potential value if used to improve learning while respecting privacy.
Ways of seeing learning - 2017v1.0 - NUI Galway University of Limerick postgr...Mary Loftus
The document discusses learning analytics and its use in education. It defines learning analytics as the measurement, collection, analysis and reporting of learner data to understand and optimize learning. It acknowledges tensions around using data like ensuring student agency and vulnerability. It discusses the need for transparency in algorithms and avoiding unintended consequences. The researchers' goals are to use machine learning and open learner models to support student metacognition and reflection. Their timeline involves gathering student data, developing models, and assessing the impact on learning.
Emerging technologies and the future of libraries (and library systems). Keyn...Ken Chad Consulting Ltd
Global technology trends and new directions in Higher Education will clearly affect the future of academic libraries and the nature of library technology. A common thread is the increasing focus on the user/consumer in an increasingly digital economy. For example a leading information technology research and advisory company, Gartner states ('Top 10 strategic predictions for 2015') that: "Renovating the customer experience is a digital priority." What should libraries and library tech companies do? Ken argues that the first step is looking again at user needs and suggests an innovative and practical methodology to help
Keynote talk given at the Learning Analytics Summer Institute 2016 (LASI16) at the University of Deusto, Bilbao, Spain in June 2016 by Rebecca Ferguson.
What does the future hold for learning analytics? In terms of Europe’s priorities for learning and training, they will need to support relevant and high-quality knowledge, skills and competences developed throughout lifelong learning. More specifically, they should improve the quality and efficiency of education and training, enhance creativity and innovation, and focus on learning outcomes in areas such as employability, active-citizenship and well-being. This is a tall order and, in order to achieve it, we need to consider how our work fits into the larger picture. Drawing on the outcomes of two recent European studies, Rebecca will discuss how we can avoid potential pitfalls and develop an action plan that will drive the development of analytics that enhance both learning and teaching.
The document provides an overview of an event on emerging trends in data science given by Dr. Joanne Luciano. It discusses the data science workflow and various processes involved. Some key trends highlighted include increased use of AI and machine learning in data management and reporting, growth of natural language processing, advances in deep learning, emphasis on data privacy and ethics. The document also promotes the new minor in data science offered at University of the Virgin Islands, covering required courses and examples of course sequences for different disciplines.
This document discusses big data in nursing and education. It defines big data as large datasets that are too large and complex for traditional database systems to analyze. Some key points:
- Florence Nightingale was an early adopter of data analytics to study mortality rates in the Crimean War.
- Big data has 5 characteristics - volume, velocity, variety, veracity, and value. It is collected from a variety of sources like social media, sensors, videos.
- Big data can benefit education by addressing inequities, providing personalized learning based on student profiles, and improving student outcomes through predictive analytics.
- Challenges to big data use include technical issues in handling large datasets, privacy and ethics concerns,
The document discusses key challenges in the field of learning analytics, including connecting analytics to pedagogy and learning science, developing ethical guidelines, focusing on learner perspectives, and addressing issues of consent, privacy, equality and data ownership. It presents ten reflection questions to prompt thinking on these challenges, such as how pedagogy links to analytics work, the problems analytics aim to solve for learners, important ethical decisions made, and potential changes in response to the challenges. Six core challenges are also summarized: building learning science connections, using diverse data sets, considering learner views, establishing ethics protocols, ensuring consent and safeguarding, and promoting equality and data control.
The document discusses the future of the information professional field. It notes that the field is facing challenges from changing technologies and user needs but that the future remains exciting with endless possibilities. Information professionals must embrace change, continue learning and adapting, and avoid being trapped by past successes or focusing only on today's needs. CILIP is evolving to support the profession by advocating for skills and ethics, developing the workforce, and securing recognition and support for the field in policymaking. Information professionals should keep developing skills, networking, and championing new ways of working to ensure they remain indispensable in the future.
ow-a-days data volumes are growing rapidly in several domains. Many factors have contributed to this growth, including inter alia proliferation of observational devices, miniaturization of various sensors ,improved logging and tracking of systems, and improvements in the quality and capacity of both disk storage and networks .Analyzing such data provides insights that can be used to guide decision making. To be effective, analysis must be timely and cope with data scales. The scale of the data and the rates at which they arrive make manual inspection infeasible. As an educational management tool, predictive analytics can help and improve the quality of education by letting decision makers address critical issues such as enrollment management and curriculum Development. This paper presents an analytical study of this approach’s prospects for education planning. The goals of predictive analytics are to produce relevant information, actionable insight, better outcomes, and smarter decisions, and to predict future events by analyzing the volume, veracity, velocity, variety, value of large amounts of data and interactive exploration.
This document discusses data science in education. It defines data science as combining domain expertise, programming, mathematics, and statistics to extract meaningful insights from data. Data science practitioners apply machine learning algorithms to produce AI systems that perform tasks requiring human intelligence. The document then discusses how data science is important for remaining competitive in the age of big data. It provides examples of how data science can be applied in education, such as assessing student learning, identifying social/behavioral issues, understanding student demographics, and mitigating student dropout rates. Finally, it stresses the importance of government support for data science in education policies and lifelong learning.
This document provides course material on marketing information products and services. It covers several key topics:
- Information is a valuable resource that contributes to social and economic development. It can be a commodity, service, product, or public/private good.
- The economics of information has shifted from industry-based to information-based. Information issues involve debates around marketers' rights vs. consumers' rights regarding privacy and use of personal data.
- Marketers use a variety of techniques to provide information to consumers, from salespeople to advertising. Advertising has evolved from purely factual to more emotional appeals. The large volume of advertising fuels debates around its informativeness and impact on market efficiency.
Big Data Analytics using in the Field of Education Systemijtsrd
This paper is a study on the use of big data in education analyzed how the big data and open data technology can actually involve in educational system. Present days we analyze how big mounts of unused data can benefit and improve to education sector. Big data has dramatically changed the ways in which leaders make decisions in natural science, Agriculture science, banking and retail business, healthcare and in education. In educations sector wide verity of digital data produced in every institution. For example the forms of data like videos, texts, voices etc. the digital educations improves both teachers and students understandings and improve teaching effectiveness. In education big data we use econometrics, causal inference models, social network analysis, text analysis, and linguistic analysis methods. Using different types of technologies adopting in education are mobile devices, teleconferences and remote access systems, educational platforms and services. This method is effectively used by students, teachers, academic faculty, specialists, and researchers in education. Gagana H. S | Sandhya B N | Gouthami H. S "Big Data Analytics using in the Field of Education System" Published in International Journal of Trend in Scientific Research and Development (ijtsrd), ISSN: 2456-6470, Volume-4 | Issue-4 , June 2020, URL: https://www.ijtsrd.com/papers/ijtsrd31196.pdf Paper Url :https://www.ijtsrd.com/computer-science/other/31196/big-data-analytics-using-in-the-field-of-education-system/gagana-h-s
1) The document discusses three paradigmatic positions that institutions may take regarding ethics and privacy in learning analytics: proceed with caution and respect existing policies, proceed with caution while still trying to be respectful, or adopt a data-driven approach and adapt policies accordingly.
2) Technical infrastructure is a major concern, as it can constrain or determine an institution's data policies. Systems developed by commercial platforms may not prioritize privacy and individual control.
3) The discussion activity prompts reflection on an institution's current position, any conflicts between stakeholder views, the technical systems that influence policy, and open questions about technology and privacy.
The Future of Data Analytics Education_ Trends and Innovations (2).pdfUncodemy
The future of data analytics education, particularly the Data Analytics Course in Dehradun with Uncodemy, embodies dynamic innovation, adaptability, and an unwavering commitment to preparing individuals for the data-driven world. In an evolving industry, it's imperative to keep education aligned with shifting demands. This entails staying updated with swiftly evolving technologies, addressing concerns about equitable access, navigating the intricacies of data privacy and ethics, and ensuring high quality and consistency in online and micro-credential courses. To fully unlock the potential of data analytics education, it is of utmost importance to invest dedicated efforts, champion inclusivity, and uphold ethical standards. By doing so, we can empower individuals to embark on a journey of learning and professional growth in the field of data analytics, thereby fostering innovation and progress in our data-centric society. Explore the Data Analytics Course in Dehradun with Uncodemy and seize valuable opportunities in this dynamic field.
TPACK is an important model in the field of instructional technology for several key reasons:
1. It emphasizes the importance of teachers understanding the relationships between technology, pedagogy, and content. Effective technology integration requires knowledge in all three domains as well as how they interconnect.
2. It provides a framework to guide teacher training and professional development. By addressing the different knowledge components, professional learning can be designed to build teachers' TPACK.
3. It encourages teachers to think about how specific technologies can be applied to better teach particular subject matter concepts. Rather than just learning how to use tools, TPACK focuses on how tools facilitate instruction.
4. It promotes the idea that technology should be used strategically to
Higher education institutions now a days are operating in an increasingly complex and
competitive environment. The application of innovation is a must for sustaining its competitive advantage.
Institution leaders are using data management and analytics to question the status quo and develop effective
solutions. Achieving these insights and information requires not a single report from a single system, but
rather the ability to access, share, and explore institution-wide data that can be transformed into meaningful
insights at every level of the institution. Consequently, institutions are facing problems in providing necessary
information technology support for fulfilling excellence in performance. More specifically, the best practices
of big data management and analytics need to be considered within higher education institutions. Therefore,
the study aimed at investigating big data and analytics, in terms of: (1) definition; (2) its most important
principles; (3) models; and (4) benefits of its use to fulfill performance excellence in higher education
institutions. This involves shedding light on big data and analytics models and the possibility of its use in
higher education institutions, and exploring the effect of using big data and analytics in achieving performance
excellence. To reach these objectives, the researcher employed a qualitative research methodology for
collecting and analyzing data. The study concluded the most important result, that there is a significant
relationship between big data and analytics and excellence of performance as big data management and
analytics mainly aims at achieving tasks quickly with the least effort and cost. These positive results support
the use of big data and analytics in institutions and improving knowledge in this field and providing a practical
guide adaptable to the institution structure. This paper also identifies the role of big data and analytics in
institutions of higher education worldwide and outlines the implementation challenges and opportunities in the
education industry.
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4. Who has ‘big’ data?
● Which of these has ‘big’ data
– Apple
– Spotify
– Craig Venter
– Ministerio de Education
– El Ayuntamiento de Salamanca
– Comunidad Autonoma de Madrid
– EdX
– El Corte Inglés
– CERN
– Facebook
– La Universidad de Salamanca
● How would you charactarise ‘big’
5. What is involved in ‘big’ data
● Just moving this data from one place
to another is a huge challenge
● Storing and searching it with
relational databases is not feasible
● New technologies have had to be
developed to deal with this, like
Apache Hadoop
7. What does that indicate? No one is
really sure, but...
● About 15 zetabytes
● 1 zetabyte = a trillion gigabytes
(i.e. 1,000,000,000,000)
World population = 7,500,000,000
● Something towards 2000 gigabytes
per person per year?
8. Every minute on the internet
● Are there more:
– Google searches?
– WhatsApp messages?
– Emails?
● Any idea of the proportions?
● Any idea of the largest figure?
11. An old quote, but still relevant
Technology is neither good nor bad; nor is it
neutral...technology’s interaction with the
social ecology is such that technical
developments frequently have environmental,
social, and human consequences that go far
beyond the immediate purposes of the
technical devices and practices themselves.
Melvin Kranzberg (1986, p. 545)
Kranzberg, M. (1986) Technology and History:
Kranzberg's Laws, Technology and Culture vol. 27,
no. 3, pp. 544-560
An old qu
12. An old quote, but still relevant
Technology is neither good nor bad; nor is it
neutral...technology’s interaction with the
social ecology is such that technical
developments frequently have environmental,
social, and human consequences that go far
beyond the immediate purposes of the
technical devices and practices themselves.
Melvin Kranzberg (1986, p. 545)
Kranzberg, M. (1986) Technology and History:
Kranzberg's Laws, Technology and Culture vol. 27,
no. 3, pp. 544-560
An old qu
13. So what are the ‘social and human
consequences’ for education?
● We don’t usually have Big Data in
Education
● But this is changing (or being
changed)
● The achievements and methods of
Big Data are being applied to
Education.
14. Bricks to Clicks Higher Education
Commission UK, 2016 (adapted)
● Worldwide, organisations are realising the
significant value of big data and using data
analytics to improve business.
● Tesco’s Clubcard allows the supermarket chain
to collect an enormous amount of data about
their customers.
● Data used not only to target individual
shoppers – through personalised newsletters
and offers but also to inform broader strategy
● Tesco is also using this data in predictive
analytics to forecast how many products will
be sold when and where.
15. … and now for education
● The commission believes that:
– The UK HE sector currently possesses a rich
and vast amount of data, but is not making
the most effective use of this valuable
resource.
– The sector should seize the opportunities
that data and analytics presents
immediately.
● But what are the opportunities?
16. George Siemens
“Education is, today at least, a black box. ... We
don’t know, precisely, which academic practices
need to be curbed and which need to be encouraged.
…
We need a means, a foundation, on which to base
reform activities. In the corporate sector, business
intelligence serves this “decision foundation” role.
In education, I believe learning analytics will serve
this role. Once we better understand the learning
process — the inputs, the outputs, the factors that
contribute to learner success — then we can start to
make informed decisions that are supported by
evidence.”
https://www.oreilly.com/ideas/education-data-analytics-learning
17. Delivering education
Michael Barber: Prime Minister's Delivery Unit under Tony Blair;
McKinsey’s Global Education Practice; Chief Education Advisor, Pearson
When we take a pill, we expect to feel better. When we hire a car
mechanic, we expect our car to work again. Similarly, when a child goes to
school, she and her parents expect certain outcomes. When a student
goes to university, he expects to learn, grow, and develop. When an adult
receives skills training, she expects to enhance her job prospects.
With our drive towards efficacy, we want to help deliver on those
expectations by continuously improving every single one of our products
On the Road… to Delivering Learner Outcomes
http://efficacy.pearson.com/wp-
content/uploads/2015/03/Pearson_OntheRoad_SPREADS_190315.pdf
18. We have new ways to research into
learning conversations
http://www.moodlenews.com/2013/the-social-networks-adapting-pedagogical-practice-snapp-tool-and-
visualizing-moodle-forums/
19. And new data and algorithms for
adaptive learning
https://www.slideshare.net/PaymentsandCommerce/brighterion-overview
20. Making MOOCs more personalised
● For a Coursera course on Calculus
Fowler and Evans created an adaptive
add-on, called MOOCulus.
● “...the tool is designed to feed
students progressively harder
questions based on previous answers.”
● "Learning calculus involves doing math,
lots of math.... We wanted problems
that would react to students."
https://campustechnology.com/articles/2014/05/14/enhancing-a-mooc-with-adaptive-learning.aspx
21. Your experience
● What good experiences have you
had of the use of data?
● In education
● In your lives
● Do you have any hopes for the use
of data, in research or in practice?
22. Has big data created a new
methodology?
● “Out with every theory of human behavior, from
linguistics to sociology. Forget taxonomy, ontology,
and psychology. Who knows why people do what they
do? The point is they do it, and we can track and
measure it with unprecedented fidelity. With enough
data, the numbers speak for themselves.”
●
In other words, correlation is enough.
● This was a polemic, but I’ve seen the results in action
Anderson, C. (2008) The End of Theory, Will the Data Deluge
Makes the Scientific Method Obsolete
http://www.edge.org/3rd_culture/anderson08/
anderson08_index.html
23. Some problems with Big Data
methods
● Does not use direct measures
– Recidivism (see Kelly, Weapons of Math Destruction)
● In assessing sentence length, the LSI-R instrument in the US
uses indicators such as ‘first contact with the police’ and
‘Family/Marital situation.
● The model itself contributes to a toxic model that helps sustain
it
– Use of the library (surrogate for learning engagement)
– Address (surrogate for financial status)
● Data coverage may be patchy over the
population, and not updated
● Data sets are usually private
24. Economics
● Like technology, economic and
policy changes have generated huge
forces which are impacting
education
● The use of data in education is tied
in with an educational evidence-
based reform agenda in a complex
relationship with neoliberal
economics and politics
25. Total student debt in the USA
● How many zeros do I need to add
$1,410,000...
26. Total federal outstanding student
loans in the USA
● How many zeros do I need to add
$1,410,000,000,000
28. Yes, that is a LOT of money
● If you spent one dollar per second
– $86,400 per day
– $31.5 million per year
– At that rate of spending, it would take you over
32,000 years to spend one trillion dollars
29. Is this a bubble?
● If so, what would burst it?
– Questioning that learning can be accurately measured, bundled,
packaged and delivered.
● What could keep it going? Further neoliberal
reform
– More commodification of educational products for purchase
through a market
– Quantification of the learning and benefits to be sold, making use
of data
● What opportunities does it offer educational
publishers and service providers?
– Offer to cut costs by providing assessment services & interactive
teaching, and establish private schools and universities
30. Hayek, as a representative of
neoliberalism
...If you need prices, including the
prices of labor, to direct people to go
where they are needed, you cannot
have another distribution except the
one from the market principle. I
think that intellectually there is just
nothing left of socialism.
Interview with Thomas W. Hazlett in May of 1977, as published in
"The Road to Serfdom, Forseeing the Fall", in Reason magazine
(July 1992). http://reason.com/archives/1992/07/01/the-road-from-
serfdom/3
31. Managerialism in the public sector
“...driven by an emphasis on target-
setting, performance review, and the
use of incentives and sanctions to
reward appropriate behaviours and
punish inappropriate behaviour or
what is deemed poor performance.”
Stevenson, H. & Wood, P., 2013. Markets, managerialism and
teachers’ work: the invisible hand of high stakes testing in
England. The International Education Journal: Comparative
Perspectives, 12(2), pp.42–61.
https://openjournals.library.sydney.edu.au/index.php/IEJ/article/vi
ewFile/7455/7814
p.50
32. The rationale for market
information
‘Consumers’ require market information in order to
make rational choices. Published test results, ranked
in league tables, facilitate ‘like-for-like’ comparison,
whilst open enrolment allows parents to exercise
choice.
● Formula-funding, driven overwhelmingly by pupil
numbers, ensures that high performing schools
generate large numbers of parental preferences, and
with them additional resources.
● Schools ranked lower in the league tables are likely to
attract fewer parental preferences and hence, face
falling rolls, and diminishing budgets.
Stevenson, H. & Wood, P., 2013. Markets, managerialism and teachers’ work: the invisible hand of
high stakes testing in England. The International Education Journal: Comparative Perspectives,
12(2), pp.42–61.
https://openjournals.library.sydney.edu.au/index.php/IEJ/article/viewFile/7455/7814 p.49
33. The need for market information
Within this quasi-market, high stakes
testing is central. Just as the economic
market requires a communicative signal
between producers and consumers, so too
does the educational quasi-market require
an equivalent. Therefore, published test
scores perform a similar, although not
equivalent function to price in the market
for school education.
Stevenson, H. & Wood, P., 2013. Markets, managerialism and teachers’ work:
the invisible hand of high stakes testing in England. The International
Education Journal: Comparative Perspectives, 12(2), pp.42–61.
https://openjournals.library.sydney.edu.au/index.php/IEJ/article/viewFile/7455/
7814
p.49
34. ● Have you heard these arguments?
● Have you had experience of this
kind of process?
35. Technology and economics work
together
● Technology enables the market
● Data on activities and results can be gathered that
could not previously be gathered
● Data to be communicated to central management
● Data can be analysed in relation to targets, and
target setting
36. Common Core (see last weeks
lecture)
Peter Cohen, CEO of Pearson's K-12
division, Pearson School:
'It's a really big deal,'
'The Common Core standards are
affecting literally every part of the
business we're involved in.'
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702303674
004577434430304060586.html
37. USA Grades 3-9 annual budget for
assessment: $669,000,000, $27 / pupil
39% of total = roughly
260 million dollars
Chingos, M.M., 2012. Strength in Numbers: State Spending on K-12 Assessment Systems,
Available at: https://www.brookings.edu/wp-
content/uploads/2016/06/11_assessment_chingos_final_new.pdf.
38. Bridge academies in Africa
● Private, for profit
● Fees aproximately $6 per month
● Bankrolled by Zuckerberg and Gates
● 470 nursery and primary schools with
100,000
● Intended to provide a service
demonstrating that private schools
are more effective than state schools.
39. How Bridge manages the
educational process
Tablets “not only provide the teachers with
detailed instructions but also monitor their
performance. Teachers must check in via their
tablets when they arrive and run their lessons
almost verbatim from the tablet’s lesson scripts.”
“Back at Bridge’s Nairobi offices and
Massachusetts-based headquarters, all the data is
compiled and analyzed. … Academy Managers
(the “principals” at the schools so to speak) are in
constant contact with headquarters.”
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/africa/bridge-international-academies-script
ed-schooling-for-6-a-month-is-an-audacious-answer-to-educating-10420028.html
See also
https://www.theatlantic.com/education/archive/2014/10/is-it-okay-to-make-teachers-rea
d-scripted-lessons/381265/
40. What do you think?
● What is the balance of opportunities
and perils for the Bridge project
41. Education is an unusual domain
Education is contested
– What is the product? Learning? Graduates?
Qualifications? Employability? Citizens?
– It has no externally verifiable outcomes (not
engineering tolerance, or even death rates)
– Measured only by its own instruments (exams
and tests)
42. What brings about success in
education?
Each group has their own theories
which inform representations
Management ascribe success to curricula and
training
Teachers ascribe success to their interventions in
the classroom
Learners ascribe success to their own efforts
Managers, psychologists and pedagogs
typically determine the representations
of the educational process (even if they
are only implicit)
43. A conflict of representations of
success
Each group has their own theories
which inform representations
Management ascribe success to curricula and
training
Teachers ascribe success to their interventions in
the classroom
Learners ascribe success to their own efforts
Managers, psychologists and pedagogs
typically determine the representations
of the educational process (even if they
are only implicit)
44. Representations and technology
When these representations are
instantiated in technology, they become
normative representations. They reflect
the interests of their originators, and
intervene in the balance of constraints.
Every Learning Design is a representation of the
education process
Every analytics intervention is a representation
of the education process
Every Learning Management System and every
MOOC is a theory.
45. Peter Drucker is reported as
saying:
"You can't manage it if you can't measure it"
Quoted to justify data driven decision making.
Also reported as
"What gets measured gets managed"
i.e. The representations used in education by
management (or learning technologists, or
psychologists, or pedagogues) often provide
circular justifications.
See Seddon, J. (2008). Systems Thinking in the Public Sector. Triarchy Press.
46. Peter Drucker is reported as
saying:
"You can't manage it if you can't measure it"
Quoted to justify data driven decision making.
Also reported as
"What gets measured gets managed"
i.e. The representations used in education by
management (or learning technologists, or
psychologists, or pedagogues) often provide
circular justifications.
See Seddon, J. (2008). Systems Thinking in the Public Sector. Triarchy Press.
47. Representations of education
In our research into education we should
challenge “What gets measured gets
managed”.
We should be aware that managerial and
economic factors have an increasing
influence on representations
TEL research often reads as if it is conducting
cognitive engineering of students, but
– Teachers are not psychologists, they are professionals
– Students are not patients or subjects, they are
participants in a conversation
49. What is professional practice?
‘...to apply skilled service or advice to
others, or to provide technical
managerial or administrative services
to, or within, organisations... ’
Cheetham, G., & Chivers, G. (2005). Professions, Competence And
Informal Learning: The Nature of Professions and the Role of Informal
Learning in Acquiring Professional Competence (p. 360). Cheltenham:
Edward Elgar.
50. In my view, in education
● Professional practice largely mediates between
– strategies for simplification of management
– the variety of the learners for whom teachers have
professional responsibility.
● Historic accommodation between regulatory
authorities, management and teaching
professionals:
– educational managers indicate the goals for teachers and
learners
– ensure that the results of their activity meet some minimum
standards.
– The rest is left up to the professional skills of teachers and
the ethical integrity of both teachers and learners.
51. ● What happens if increase the ability
of managers to inspect the degree
to which teachers’ results meet
required standards?
52. I argue that...
The weakness of educational
management in handling detail of
educational interactions may be a
good thing. It allows flexibility which
teachers need to be work with
learners.
53. Teaching standards
● Among many clauses
● 2012 ‘assess qualified teachers against the standards
of a level that is consistent with what should
reasonably be expected of a teacher in the relevant
role and at the relevant stage of their career’ (DE,
2012, p. 1).
● teachers are ‘accountable’ for ‘pupils’ ‘attainment,
progress and outcomes’
● Head teachers are expected to refer to the standards
when making their judgements and implement those
judgements through the appraisal system.
● Upchurch, M., Moore, P. & Kunter, A., 2014. Marketisation, Commodification and the Implications
for Teachers’ Autonomy in England. In Sraffa and Althusser Reconsidered; Neoliberalism
Advancing in South Africa, England, and Greece. Emerald Insight, pp. 133–153. Available at:
http://www.emeraldinsight.com/doi/10.1108/S0161-723020140000029005.
54. John Seddon
● Fierce critic of commodification of education
● Argues that targets bring with them their own de
facto purposes.
● There is a danger that targets will force teachers
to focus on the achievement of a constrained set
of criteria for successful outcomes, and the
expense of the pedagogic interventions which
have traditionally formed the core of their
practice.
Seddon, J. (2008). Systems Thinking in the Public
Sector: The Failure of the Reform Regime and a
Manifesto for a Better Way. Axminster: Triarchy
Press.
55. ● How does the use of data in
education support the policy of
teachers’ accountability?
● What is happening in the education
systems that you are studying?
56. Implications of management by
league table results
● “The commodification of school pupils’
assessment results means that to move
‘upwards’ in the league tables an individual
school must score more highly than
‘competitor’ schools on the proportion of its
pupils attaining grades A C in five GCSE
subjects including English and Maths.”
● This criteria is a decision taken by somebody
Upchurch, M., Moore, P. & Kunter, A., 2014. Marketisation, Commodification and the
Implications for Teachers’ Autonomy in England. In Sraffa and Althusser Reconsidered;
Neoliberalism Advancing in South Africa, England, and Greece. Emerald Insight, pp.
133–153. Available at: http://www.emeraldinsight.com/doi/10.1108/S0161-
723020140000029005.
57. A secondary teacher said that in
practice this meant:
“As a department we have a meeting round a big
table with all the childrens’ photographs in one year
scattered over the table. We then arrange the
photographs and construct a group out of those
children who are borderline D/C. We record their
names and put them down for extra revision classes
on Saturday mornings and so on. The rest are
subject to a process of ‘principled abandonment’
and not offered the same facilities or officially
expected to receive the same attention from us.”
Upchurch, M., Moore, P. & Kunter, A., 2014. Marketisation, Commodification and the
Implications for Teachers’ Autonomy in England. In Sraffa and Althusser Reconsidered;
Neoliberalism Advancing in South Africa, England, and Greece. Emerald Insight, pp. 133–
153. Available at: http://www.emeraldinsight.com/doi/10.1108/S0161-
723020140000029005.
58. Teachers pay rises
● “All teachers are awarded a pay rise when
the pay scales and allowances are
updated. Subject to satisfactory
performance, each September, teachers on
the main pay scale move to the next point
on the scale.
Teachers who have recorded excellence
performance may even advance by two
points.”
● How do we know about performance?
Through KPIs and the results of analytics.
https://www.tes.com/jobs/careers-advice/pay-and-conditions/qualified-teachers-pay-scales
62. Not a panacea, a problem to attend
to
● Education can use the methods of psychology to study
change in the individual, and the factors that bring it
about
– For example, the efficacy of learning materials
– The results can be valuable
● But we should be aware that factors of social
organisation are always involved in the educational
process
● Technology, economics (and politics) are inevitably
entangled with social organisation
● I suggest that all PhD students in education should pay
them attention
● If they are ignored, then the results of research will be
confusing, or misleading
63. More specifically
●
When you change technology you change a representation
●
When you change data collection, you change the
transparency of the process being managed
●
When you change the transparency of the process to be
managed, you increase the power of management
● When you change the balance of power between manager
and managed, you also empower a particular
representation of the process.
●
Whose representation is empowered, and what are the
consequences for
●
Ministries of education? Directors? Teachers? Learners? Parents?
● What alternative method can we offer for the design of
educational systems?
●
These questions are worthy of PhD research!
64. Two of my papers that are relevant
to what I have been discussing
● Griffiths, D., 2017. The Use of Models in
Learning Design and Learning Analytics
Interaction Design and Architecture(s)
Journal - IxD&A, N.33, pp. 113-133
http://www.mifav.uniroma2.it/inevent/eve
nts/idea2010/doc/33_6.pdf
● Griffiths, D., 2012. The impact of
analytics in Higher Education on
academic practice. Cetis Analytics Series,
Vol 1, No.10., CETIS. p.6-7. Available at:
http://publications.cetis.ac.uk/2012/532.