Nancy Law Seminar – IDEALS: A design-aware learning analytics system

We were delighted to host Nancy Law, Professor and Associate Dean (Research) at the Faculty of Education, University of Hong Kong, who will be presenting a hybrid seminar on the innovative IDEALS system. Enjoy the replay below…

Abstract: Spectacular advances have been made in learning and pedagogical theories as well as in learning technologies that foster such learning, including learning analytics, but these have not changed teachers’ pedagogical roles in fundamental ways to become a learning design profession: designing learning experiences and learning environments tailored to learners’ diverse needs to scaffold their ability to engage in meaningful learning through collaborative inquiry. Teachers do not have a common design language, design tools, and design resources to become design professions.

In this seminar, Nancy will introduce the core elements of the IDEALS^TM, an intelligent design-aware learning analytics integrated system for 21st century learning that she and colleagues have been working on over the past decade to address this grand challenge. IDEALS^TM comprises a Learning Design Studio®, an interactive Learning and Assessment Platform, and a Design-aware Learning Analytics and Visualization (DLAV) engine to close the loop from learning design to learning analytics and feedback.

Nancy will speak about extending the concept of learning design patterns to include the specification of “learning analytics storyboards” as part of the learning design process. And explore the feasibility of embedding writing analytics as an integral part of learning design patterns underpinned by robust writing pedagogy.

Bio: Nancy Law is a professor and Associate Dean (Research) in the Faculty of Education at the University of Hong Kong. She served as the Founding Director for the Centre for Information Technology in Education (CITE) for 15 years from 1998 and is currently the Deputy Director for CITE. She is an elected Fellow of the International Society of the Learning Sciences. She received a Humanities and Social Sciences Prestigious Fellowship Scheme Award by the HKSAR Research Grants Council in recognition of her research in scalability of technology-enhanced learning innovations. She is known for her contributions to research on learning and assessment of digital citizenship, as well as on learning design and design-aware learning analytics.