Week 7: Cases and Examples

• Learning Catalytics (Sarah)
• Game-based assessment (Nic)
• GLASS (Gradient’s Learning Analytics System) (Jayden)
• Analytics in serious games / GLEANER (Jenifer)
• Collaborations in LA (Anu)

• Watch: Tony Hirst's talk on data wrangling (start from 3:25)
• Hands-on of your choice
  • Spreadsheets: Data Carpentry or Using a spreadsheet to clean up a dataset
  • R: Data Carpentry or Data Wrangling with R
  • Data Science Studio: a video tutorial by Bodong and more tutorials
  • Open Refine - a powerful tool for working with messy data: tutorials by Hirst, and many more
  • Overview - analysis of many many documents: tutorials

Knowledge Forum discussion

• Reflect on your experiences (success, failures, surprises, etc.)
• Share how you might use the tool(s) in the future

Guest speaker: Elle Yuan Wang, PhD Candidate in Cognitive/Learning Sciences, Columbia University

• When: 4:40PM (as usual)
• Where: Google Hangouts