Learning

Connecting the fields of student belonging and learning analytics: "Belonging Analytics" As with every purposeful human endeavour, motivation for learning and becoming a professional within a discipline is enhanced when individuals feel a sense of belonging. In the context of education, belonging refers to students’ subjective feeling of being a valued member of the learning community, that comes from a sense of connection with others as well as to the course of study. This affective dimensio...
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CIC's Simon Buckingham Shum keynoted at the inaugural Asian Learning Analytics Summer Institute this week. LASI-Asia is one node in the international LASI network organised by the Society for Learning Analytics Research. The title of his invited talk was Envisioning Learning Analytics for 21st Century Competencies. This is an overview of the edited volume on the same theme, published in the Journal of Learning Analytics. If this topic is of interest, see also Learning Analytics vs. Cognitive ...
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