Week 3: What to Assess: "New Competencies" in the Knowledge Age

• KF Clinic
• Readings & Discussion
• WG Mission Statements

• Technical glitches… Q&A
• Promising Ideas
• Remark (Private & Public)
• Star / Bookmark
• Analytic tools
  • Build-in
  • R-based

• Binkley, M., Erstad, O., Herman, J., Raizen, S., Riple, M., Miller-Ricci, M., and Rumble, M. (2012). Defining 21st century skills.
• Shum, S. B. and Crick, R. D. (2012). Learning dispositions and transferable competencies.
• Dawson, S. and Siemens, G. (2014). Analytics to literacies: The development of a learning analytics framework for multiliteracies assessment.

• Data
  • “Information infrastructure embodies and shapes worldviews.”
  • Types of data (‘intentional metadata’ vs. event logs)
• Pedagogies: “How can we as learners and current/future researchers critically evaluate learning analytics publications to determine the pedagogical context?”
• What would decide the quality of learning analytics?
• Feasibility & speed of adoption

• What matters? What do you want to assess?
• Articulate it (based on literature)
  • Define the concept
  • Identify its constructs
• Map it to learning data
  • What's available?
  • Which types of data? (e.g., self-disclosing vs. event logs)
  • What constitutes evidence?
• Analytics
• Validate
• Presentation

The following slides are from: talk 1 and talk 2

• Discuss plans with your group partner(s)
• Draft a class plan, which could include
  • presentations, demos, hands-on … really whatever you like …
• Setup a meeting with Bodong one week before your SIG presentation to discuss your plan
  • e.g., for SIG 1 who will present in Week 8, we should meet in Week 7

• Guest speaker: Simon Knight, Open University
• Google Hangouts
  • Attend from distance if you prefer