Week 1 - Introduction

Bodong Chen
January 21, 2015

Learning Analytics in the Knowledge Age

Learning Analytics as a Field

  • First academic conference: 2011, Banff, Canada
  • First summer institute: 2013, Stanford University
  • First issue of its journal: 2014

Learning Analytics as a Field (cont'd)

Unpacking Learning Analytics

Contrasts

  • learning analytics vs. analysis of learning data
  • big vs. small / rich vs. poor

A Knowledge Building Class

What does it mean?

  • collective responsibility
  • community discourse
  • solving authentic problems (vs. learning a technique)
  • production of something new

Themes

  • Learning and Knowledge Growth
  • Social Networks
  • Mining of Text and Discourse
  • Temporality in Learning
  • Prediction and Intervention
  • ?

KF Demo

Knowledge Forum

Other Courses on Learning Analytics

How is this course different from other courses?

Use them as additional resources!