Social Learning Analytics

From the blog Tim's Learning Analytics blog

January 28th, 2012

Slideshare on social learning analytics:
This slideshare outlines much of the work that’s already happening in terms of learning analytics. From the CALRG 2011 Conference.… [Read more...]

Lots of interesting work at Carnegie Mellon is happening around the refinement of online learning materials with analytics.

I find the Digital Dashboard Project for Learning (DDL) particularly interesting.  This project attempts to model a positive feedback loop between instructors, students, and content in an online learning system.

Digital Dashboard for Learning - CMU

Publications page here.

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Due: Tuesday, February 21st, 2012 at Noon

Objective: In this assignment, you will be conducting a contextual interview with a prospective set of users, and deriving a set of work models and notes based on that experience.

What to Do:

  1. Identify 4-8 different individual users, covering each of your user / stakeholder categories, and ask each for their permission to
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It was a long way up for the humble zipper, the mechanical wonder that has kept so much in our lives ‘together.’ On its way up the zipper has passed through the hands of several dedicated inventors, none convinced the general public to accept the zipper as part of everyday costume. The magazine and fashion industry made the novel zipper [Read more...]

From our discussion today:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technology_adoption_lifecycle… [Read more...]

Back in Action!

From the blog Tim's Learning Analytics blog

January 26th, 2012

After a much longer hiatus than I would have liked, I’m back chronicling my learning analytics adventures on this blog.  This promises to be an interesting year, and I look forward to sharing more of my thoughts and reflections on these topics on a regular basis over the next several months.… [Read more...]

NYTimes:
A poster being put up in the subway system shows a man who lost his leg to diabetes. But he really didn’t.… [Read more...]

A few announcements:
* Introductions
Please send us a short introduction to you, as soon as possible. We’re looking for a short description of who you are, where you come from, what you’re interested in and, if you have any, your entrepreneurial experience.
* Course website
The course website is available here: http://bit.ly/cal-ICE. In addition to the most recent

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I started out trying to make a record for a photograph, and, my, aren’t there a lot of ways to describe a photograph. For a collection that already has some sort of organizing system, manually entering that much detailed info for each item in a collection is prohibitive. I imagine that there’s some way to batch upload preexisting catalog information … [Read more...]

I officially filed my dissertation in December. It will be available through the UC Berkeley library and ProQuest soon enough, and I plan on having some version of it accessible through my site. But in the meantime, here’s the abstract. If you’d like to read the dissertation, email me and I’ll send you a copy.

Making Art, Creating Infrastructure: deviantART [Read more...]