Slides from a session with Stanford University PhD students on the Educational Digital Futures programme #StanfordEDF

1. Oct. 17 2012, Stanford University
Learning Analytics
what are we optimizing for?
Simon Buckingham Shum @
http://twitter.com/sbskmi
Knowledge Media Institute, The Open University UK
http://simon.buckinghamshum.net
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2. rough plan…
an analytics ecosystem
what do you think C21 learning is?
how do we do analytics for this?
examples of work in progress
comments/discussion throughout
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3. analytics ecosystem
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4. A learning analytics ecosystem
learners
educators
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5. A learning analytics ecosystem
learners
educators
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6. A learning analytics ecosystem
learners
?!*?!*
?!*?!* educators
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7. A learning analytics ecosystem
dashboard
design team
learners
?!*?!*
data curators/
translators
?!*?!* educators
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8. Where did the data come from?
learners
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9. Where did the data come from?
learners
theories
pedagogies
assessments
tools
researchers / educators / instructional designers 9

10. Where did the data come from?
learners
technologists
theories
pedagogies
assessments
tools
researchers / educators / instructional designers 10

11. The map is not the territory
Analytics are not the end, but a means
The goal is to optimize the whole system
outcome
feedback
learners
design
Intent theories
Data
pedagogies
assessments
tools
intent
researchers / educators / instructional designers 11

12. Optimize the system
for what?
Your thoughts on
“21 st century learning”?
(a selection of artifacts brought by participants which say something
about the future of learning)
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13. Other slides I used…
http://www.slideshare.net/sbs/ascilitewebinaroct2012
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