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Writing analytics and the LAK15 “State of the Field” panel

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Tweet We just concluded an outstandingly run LAK15 conference hosted expertly by Marist College, Poughkeepsie NY. In the closing panel, a few of us shared thoughts on the state of the field. International LA expert panel with @sbuckshum rep Australia @dgasevic UK @hthwaite Canada @stephteasley US pic.twitter.com/lyAHciNjnu — Shane Dawson (@shaned07) March 20, 2015 The replay will join all the other LAK talks on the SoLAR YouTube channel eventually. Meantime, here’re my extended notes+links, a...
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Evaluating Writing Analytics

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CIC is now initiating a series of pilots in close collaboration with UTS academics across the faculties, and other units (HELPS; Jumbunna; IML) to test the potential of language technologies to provide rapid, formative feedback on draft writing. This builds on the work at The Open University's Knowledge Media Institute (KMi), initiated by Simon Buckingham Shum, in collaboration with Ágnes Sándor, a linguist in the Parsing & Semantics Group at Xerox Research Centre Europe, Grenoble. ...
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Dispositional Learning Analytics @High School

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As part of CIC's mission to prototype analytics and learning futures, we are working with the High Schools — who are of course the providers of the next generation of UTS students. In close partnership with Ruth Deakin Crick (CIC Visiting Professor in 2014), we are developing a systemic form of action research building on Ruth's experience in educational research, Simon's work in analytics, and educational improvement science concepts developed by Tony Bryk at the Carnegie Foundation for the Ad...
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Analytics for learning outside the LMS

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Tweet Just kicking off, a project funded by Australian OLT which I’ve long been dreaming about under the heading of Social Learning Analytics [1-2], and now brought to life by Kirsty Kitto and her team at QUT, in collaboration with Mandy Lupton who is developing the concept of teaching+learning in the wild. The point of departure is their Connected Learning Analytics (CLA) Toolkit: “The CLA toolkit helps students and teachers to harvest data about their activities in standard social media envi...
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Learning Analytics for 21st Century Competencies

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CIC’s Simon Buckingham Shum and Ruth Deakin Crick (CIC Visiting Professor last year) are editing a forthcoming issue of the Journal of Learning Analytics, which seeks to bring together leading examples of how we can evidence 21st century competencies using Learning Analytics approaches. This is a short version of the full call for submissions [pdf] A strategic educational response to a world of constant change is to focus explicitly on nurturing the skills and dispositions which equip learners...
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New Book: Knowledge Art

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A new book has just been published, as part of the Human-Centred Informatics series (Morgan Claypool), edited by Jack Carroll. Constructing Knowledge Art  An Experiential Perspective on Crafting Participatory Representations This book is about how people (we refer to them as practitioners) can help guide participants in creating representations of issues or ideas, such as collaborative diagrams, especially in the context of Participatory Design (PD). At its best, such representations can rea...
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Learning analytics and educational research – what’s new?

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Tweet A brief note that I thought I’d post to see what people think. [1] A research team conducts an investigation into some aspect of the effectiveness of teaching and learning. It’s really not important what the details are. They analyse their data, using some techniques whose details don’t matter, find some patterns they consider to be significant, which they are able to report to fellow researchers.  Is this a “learning analytics system”? If so, why? If not, why not? OK, try this: [2] The...
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New Book: Knowledge Cartography

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Knowledge Cartography: Software Tools and Mapping Techniques CIC’s Director Simon Buckingham Shum has co-edited a new edition of Knowledge Cartography: Software Tools and Mapping Techniques. This exemplifies CIC’s approach to visualization as an aid to sensemaking when building Contested Collective Intelligence grounded in dialogue and argumentation. The book includes an extensive collection of real world case studies from research and education, with particular attention to the processes by whi...
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Constructing Knowledge Art: new book

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Tweet A new book has just come out as part of the Human-Centred Informatics series (Morgan Claypool), edited by Jack Carroll. Constructing Knowledge Art: An Experiential Perspective on Crafting Participatory Representations As many of you will know, Al Selvin is a close colleague and friend in New York, whose PhD research with me is the heart of the book’s story. Al is passionate about understanding the ability that some people have (including himself), of being able to add value to a group’...
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