There are lots of different factors to take into account, including people, communities and institutional culture, when introducing any form of technology-enhanced learning (TEL) into an educational institution.
Read More →
Part of the Numbers are not enough paper, by Macfadyen and Dawson (2012), looks at why there is resistance to change and innovation in universities. My notes from this paper on the reasons why learning analytics may be ignored in higher education can be found below. Read More →
We were asked to consider the mock-ups of different learning analytics that are presented in Figures 1–5 of the Ferguson et al (2012) paper. Question: Which would you choose if you had to prioritise the development of one of these for use on the H817 module website and why? Read More →
I read the Dawson et al (2014) paper written, for a Learning Analytics and Knowledge conference, for this activity in reading order of abstract, section 4.3, then sections 1 and 2. This paper is about learning analytics, rather than an example of learning analytics, but it also includes examples of social network analytics, i.e. the figures in the author network.
Using the examples from Dawson et al (2010) as a guide, I created a social network diagram from the interactions in two threads in the H817 tutor group discussion forum.
