New paper out led by Rianne Conijn based on a collaboration supported by an Australia Awards Endeavour Research Fellowship, to explore the kinds of features and constructs different stakeholders are looking for from writing analytics tools. A nice piece of…
A new piece on augmenting assessment with learning analytics (or, sort of old, edited books can take a looonnggg time to go through the process – and my thanks to the editors who have stewarded this collection through!). You can…
This article was originally published on EduResearch Matters. Read the original article. Based partly on my sabbatical visit to UCL Knowledge Lab, and recent Internet and Higher Education papers on implementing learning analytics, and educator perspectives. Using evidence to help…
I’ve just returned from a week at Arizona State University, in the SOLET (Science of Learning and Educational Technology) lab, funded by a small NSF Data Consortium Fellowship with Laura Allen. Incredibly productive week with some really great researchers –…
One of my data-sources is the set of etherpads which were used to write (mostly in small groups) a report. This data includes the final output (obviously) including some basic formatting, across which we could look for the presence of…
Over the last week I’ve been in Boulder, Colorado for the 11th International Conference of the Learning Sciences (ICLS). I was over co-chairing a workshop on ‘Learning Analytics for Learning and Becoming in Practice’, and giving a talk on ‘Epistemic…
On Thursday & Friday I was in Manchester for a 2 day HEA summit on big data in the social sciences. The event focussed on how social scientists could engage with big data, and the implications of that for teaching…
I attended this event last week, I’ve got about 20 drafts at the moment so pushing this out unfinished… These are partial notes for various reasons, sorry :-). Michael Moore, D2L big data in education theory and practice Personalisation targeted…
Teachers out there,what advice do u give students on discriminating between stories on web? asks @dmrussell http://t.co/BZrT2pmMl8 #edtech — Simon Knight (@sjgknight) November 16, 2013 In that case, Dan was talking about a specific case which serves as a nice…
I’ve had this blog sitting in draft for so long that I’ve written a paper about it in the meantime! The working copy of that paper can be found on the KMi tech report site and we welcome any comments…
Earlier this year I took the Google Advanced Power Searching with Google MOOC. For one of the assignments I did some research on a relatively long standing interest of mine – the use of internet in exams in Denmark, a…
Last week I spent some time hosted by Stanford University’s Lytics Lab talking to people there, and in the tech world, about education, technology, search engines and epistemic practices. A really really big thank you to everyone who met up…
This evening I met up with Gene Golovchinsky, of FXPAL (Fuji Xerox research institute in Palo Alto). Gene’s work is pretty varied (there was some cool stuff on collaborative whiteboards & storing/retrieving info a while ago) but a big area…
Two of my four meetings yesterday were with people at the Wikimedia Foundation (the other two were with instagrok, and google). I had a chat with Tilman Bayer about Wikimedia research, and LiAnna Davis about the WMF Education program. With…
One of the tools I’ve been most impressed by in the student-research-support space, and one which I’ve had the longest interaction with is Instagrok. Instagrok is a tool in which searches map keyterms to related concepts, and provides quick facts…
Last night I went into Google (something very surreal about saying that, and about doing a search From:”Hotel California”; To:”Google”…). Here’s a picture of me with a big google sign… Google (and other search engines)…
I’m keen on using mediawiki as a platform for learning analytics. So projects which can use analytics on Wikipedia (and related mediawiki projects) are interesting because a) they’re hopefully useful to the individual project and b) they provide proof of…
Yesterday I spoke in Lincoln at the WikimediaUK Conference on Mediawiki for OER and Learning Analytics – slides (with audio) below, video (I think) available on the conference link some time later this week. I’d met a group of the…
CIS in wiki I’m interested in whether links (internal and external) are added to talk pages, and if so whether they then ‘flow’ into the main-page. I know I park links on talk pages, sometimes because I’m not qualified to…
Doing what I do, I talk a reasonable amount about moocs, OER, learning analytics, the sorts of opportunity they provide and how we might do research on them. I’ve also done a reasonable amount of work on the Wikipedia pages…
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