In this talk, I describe a number of emerging practices associated with online learning, networked scholarship, and MOOCs. I bring together results from 3 upcoming studies to describe how online learning is an emerging practice, how the field is becoming more interdisciplinary, how learning analytics are becoming more pervasive, and how various experiences and practices (e.g., notetaking and the scheduling of online learning to fit adult life's realities) evade learning analytics methods.

2. Collaborators: Royce Kimmons, Amy Collier, Emily Schneider,
& Peter Shepherdson
Funders: Canada Research Chairs program, NSF, RRU

3. Royal Roads University

4. Emerging practices and technologies

5. Online learning: Emerging

6. 1. Research into online learning is
becoming more interdisciplinary

7. A positive trend, but we need
collaborators more than others writing
about education.

8. “By collecting every click, homework
submission, quiz and forum note from
tens of thousands of students, Coursera
[a MOOC platform] is a data mine that
offers a new way to study
learning” (May, 2012),
2. Data, data, everywhere

9. 2. Data, data, everywhere

10. Can online learning be fully understood
and improved using data trails?

11. 3. Life’s daily realities shaping learning
and participation

12. 4. Notetaking – on paper

13. 4. Notetaking – digital

14. Image attribution
• Royal Roads University, Hatley Caste
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
Hatley_Park_National_Historic_Site#mediaviewer/
File:Hatley_Castle_BC.jpg
• Life emerges from the dark https://flic.kr/p/7LxQTe
• Taking notes https://flic.kr/p/oyYv6M
• Typing I https://flic.kr/p/drswmN
• Day [009] Schedule https://flic.kr/p/8XbPUw
• My new old pants https://flic.kr/p/GyggV
• Abstract fluid
http://th08.deviantart.net/fs70/PRE/i/2012/227/a/e/
abstract_fluid_painting_65_by_mark_chadwick-d5b6u21.jpg