tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-65639789502956719692024-03-19T06:13:19.741-06:00Mined the SynapseM.R. McEwenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07457418881565774864noreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6563978950295671969.post-8060564127504350792011-01-25T03:52:00.001-07:002011-01-25T04:12:33.162-07:00LAK-11 Further forays into big data and critiques of learning analytics
There are a few resources I found while looking at big-data articles that I would like to include in a post, if nothing else as a handy reference for my own memory. They also seem to be tied in some way to concerns or questions that we should have about learning analytics. I would also like to address some of M.R. McEwenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07457418881565774864noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6563978950295671969.post-27880705120978325722011-01-24T23:56:00.007-07:002011-01-25T00:44:32.135-07:00LAK11 : Where do we find good critiques of learning analytics?
George Siemens started the discussion in LAK-11 with both a post and a forum. This post is in response to his question.
I’ve come to the preliminary conclusion that because the field is so new-especially referenced by the exact phrase “learning analytics”– that there probably aren’t a lot of good critiques. However, if you consider one (ugly step?M.R. McEwenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07457418881565774864noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6563978950295671969.post-44032776941312217342011-01-20T03:54:00.001-07:002011-01-20T03:59:19.182-07:00LAK11 Week 2: The Rise of Big Data
This was great stuff, from the concrete (10 Ways Data is Changing How we Live,) to the extremely abstract (Computing a Theory of Everything) and everything in between. In fact, there’s something for the paranoid, the optimist, the experimenter, the database/computing guru, the physicist or chemist, and more!
Given my propensity for fascination M.R. McEwenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07457418881565774864noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6563978950295671969.post-56320375923812044952011-01-18T05:21:00.003-07:002011-01-18T05:29:21.795-07:00A Little Perspective :-)I have a lot to say about the conversation engendered by George's post about good critiques of learning analytics but until I can get to that, I thought this video helps put things in to perspective, as we realize that no matter how "cool", emergent, or revolutionary (or even evil) we might think something is, years from now -- (or sooner!) we'll probably be smiling at our former perceptions, as M.R. McEwenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07457418881565774864noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6563978950295671969.post-62558647614412633792011-01-14T05:06:00.008-07:002011-01-18T04:55:31.122-07:00LAK11 Week 1: Playing with Hunch
I’m probably just as paranoid about privacy issues as anyone else in my generation, but I found that if you do a little exploring/digging you can actually create an account in hunch that is NOT linked to your twitter or facebook accounts. In fact , all you really need is a valid email address, and you can skip divulging the rest of the M.R. McEwenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07457418881565774864noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6563978950295671969.post-69370478753980111482011-01-14T04:18:00.003-07:002011-01-18T04:53:44.432-07:00LAK11 Week 1: Presentation - John Fritz
(Links to the elluminate session, and the mp3 and slides of that session)
John’s presentation and emphasis is (admittedly by him) biased toward the LMS/CMS, and much of the talk centered on students’ use of Blackboard. First let me say that my interest and focus is NOT at the CMS/LMS level, but is more at the level of the M.R. McEwenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07457418881565774864noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6563978950295671969.post-41467154526745485852011-01-14T04:13:00.002-07:002011-01-18T04:54:46.490-07:00LAK11 Week 1: Readings
I was already familiar with ECAR key findings about Analytics in Higher Education, but so excited about finding Tanya’s paper: Learning Analytics: The Definitions, the Processes, and the Potential. It was exactly the type of article I had been searching for – without a lot of success. About a year ago I had attempted to begin a literature M.R. McEwenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07457418881565774864noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6563978950295671969.post-85434512647179989032011-01-14T04:04:00.000-07:002011-01-14T04:04:07.069-07:00LAK11 MOOC<!--[if gte mso 9]> Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 <!--[endif]--><!--[if gte mso 9]>M.R. McEwenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07457418881565774864noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6563978950295671969.post-49997741010179932142011-01-14T03:44:00.000-07:002011-01-14T03:44:12.049-07:00IntroductionHey this should be first -- but it's going to have to wait :-)M.R. McEwenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07457418881565774864noreply@blogger.com0