Learning analytics cannot be left to the researchers, IT leadership, the faculty, the provost or any other single sector alone.

An executive at a large provider of digital learning tools pushed back against what he saw as Thille’s “complaint about capitalism.”

a debate over who should control the field of learning analytics

What teachers want in a data dashboard

timely

Data “was something you would use as an autopsy when everything was over,” she said.

Low-shot visual object recognition

While generally misused today, analytics can (theoretically) be used to predict and personalize many facets of teaching & learning, inc. pace, complexity, content, and more.

Connected Course Design at Virginia Commonwealth University

educators and students alike have found themselves more and more flummoxed by a system that values assessment over engagement, learning management over discovery, content over community, outcomes over epiphanies

more student engagement beyond the walls of a school.

I have Serious Rant-y Thoughts on requiring that students inhabit public spaces in professional contexts, and I do wonder how much a class hashtag is useful beyond self-promotion of the course and its amazing instructor.

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Unsupervised convolutional neural networks for motion estimation

the LMS is a platform students will never again use outside of school

similar to picking texts for the course well in advance

“learners must be actively engaged in learning” to achieve deep understanding (Barkley, Cross, & Major, 2005, p. 10).

the algorithm was somewhat more accurate than a coin flip

Both Udacity and Knewton require the human, the learner, to become a technology, to become a component within their well-architected software system. Sit and click. Sit and click.

Identifying issues important in their lives and community, and deciding on one to address

High unemployment■■Racial discrimination■■Neighborhood violence■■Deportation of undocumented immigrants■■High cost of college attendance■■Juvenile justice

To borrow a phrase from libraries and archives, how do we get to a point where we curate connections rather than curating content?

Mistakes are not just opportunities for learning; they are, in an important sense, the only opportunity for learning or making something truly new. Before there can be learning, there must be learners. There are only two non-miraculous ways for learners to come into existence: they must either evolve or be designed and built by learners that evolved. Biological evolution proceeds by a grand, inexorable process of trial and error — and without the errors the trials wouldn’t accomplish anything.

My experimentation with open pedagogy – and my attempts to guide students’ learning with/in and across open platforms – was a social endeavor that invited reciprocal networking.

Generally the literatures related to transformational learning hinge on active student engagement in the learning process and on students assuming responsibility for their learning. Transformative learning, self-directed learning, experiential learning, and collaborative learning, each of which aims to enhance students’ engagement,are some of the pedagogical approaches that are widely described and evaluated in the literature. In addition to active student engagement, another key feature of transformational learning is transformational teaching. In order for students’ role to change, the role and responsibility of faculty must change as well.

Researchers have tracked student emotions while using Crystal Island–a game-based learning environment– and used that research to predict how students will react in other learning situations

The Student-Centered Lecture

A PLN is a self-directed system meant to support lifelong learning through the development, maintenance, and leveraging of digital networks.

Connected Learning is based on the notion that learning is about expanding the connections between people and information within a learner's personal network

Providing Transformative Personalized Student Learning Opportunities as a Path Toward Equity

We are naturally creative and curious. We just have to build systems that nurture our inherent abilities. Schools do not do that.

networked discovery of connections would be at the center of both the learning environment as designed by faculty and the learning environment as experienced by students

the clumsy and often linear arrangements often impede students from digesting each other’s comments and engaging in organic dialogue.

Small Blog On Networked Learning

What is “Connected Learning?”

Koranic school

Do adults (and which adults) have the resources necessary to pursue learning opportunities?

the use of networks is gradually nudging aside more traditional problem-solving approaches based on the marketplace and the choice of a small leadership group or “hierarchies.”

As Fung explains, wicked problems require “multi-sectoral problem-solving” and ways to remove the barriers to “pooling knowledge and coordinating action” through the formation of networks that connect organizations.7

And this leads me to another thought- it seems like in our field there is this desire to go big, to scale, to teach hundreds of thousands, to affect an entire sector. Scale at the dimension is really only achieved by a process of mass duplication where the level of heart-felt connectivity is probably low.

Team-based, contextualized learning underlies the instruction for each track;

“We wanted to create threads between courses so that students can understand connections,”

Ranty Blog Post about Big Data, Learning Analytics, & Higher Ed

A Framework for Identifying and Evaluating Openly Networked Connected Learning Course Designs

Connected Learning & Integrative Thinking: Teaching History at Virginia Tech

True personalized learning calls for a "rethinking and redesign" of schools, which could require them to overhaul classroom structures and schedules, curricula, and the instructional approaches of teachers, Mr. Calkins of EDUCAUSE argued. For instance, in an effective personalized learning model, teachers' roles are more like those of coaches or facilitators than "content providers," he said.

"Technology can help provide students with more choices on how they're going to learn a lesson," Ms. Patrick said. "[It] empowers teachers in personalizing learning" and "empowers students through their own exercise of choice."

Many times, the work we do as educators is actually taking away some of the most powerful learning from our students.

The future of learning analytics, a future in which it is not passé, is one in which learning comes before management

Crafting Connected Courses

Rhizomatic learning as an open pedagogy

Most recently I have been learning from two new-to-me online communities of practice – Wattpad for Writers and DeviantArt for Artists. Their online designs and supportive networked ways of working prompt me to continue thinking about the power of open ways of working in such communities.

gender neutrality, creativity, imagination and tinker time are the basis for learning

Regarding the major obstacles for higher education, blending formal and informal learning is considered one of the solvable challenges

Patrick Ball—a data scientist and the director of research at the Human Rights Data Analysis Group—who has previously given expert testimony before war crimes tribunals, described the NSA's methods as "ridiculously optimistic" and "completely bullshit." A flaw in how the NSA trains SKYNET's machine learning algorithm to analyse cellular metadata, Ball told Ars, makes the results scientifically unsound.

“Search is the cornerstone of Google,” Corrado said. “Machine learning isn’t just a magic syrup that you pour onto a problem and it makes it better. It took a lot of thought and care in order to build something that we really thought was worth doing.”

Pictures of Philosophy

You don’t have to do everything yourself!

Theprincipleismerelythisthatdifferentsubjectsandmodesofstudyshouldbeundertakenbypupilsatfittingtimeswhentheyhavereachedtheproperstageofmentaldevelopment.

There is no single correct way to implement personalized learning

We analyzed the relationship between students’ level of online engagement, and traditional learning metrics, to understand the effectiveness of discussion forums in the context of flipped classrooms.

most e-learning systems

Dweck’s message is that we can’t just adopt a growth mindset and forget about it, and simply praising effort regardless of actual progress is completely counterproductive. Successfully cultivating a growth mindset is an ongoing process that consists of teaching strategies for growth and praising effort thoughtfully, rather than regardlessly.

n and d

Offering students the possibility of experiential learning in personal, interactive, networked computing—in all its gloriously messy varieties—provides the richest opportunity yet for integrative thinking within and beyond "schooling."

Moreover, the experience of building and participating within a digitally mediated network of discovery is itself a form of experiential learning, indeed a kind of metaexperiential learning that vividly and concretely teaches the experience of networks themselves.

Go into your nearest college or university library. Ignore the computer stations and the digital affordances. Enter the stacks, and run your fingers along the spines of the books on the shelves. You're tracing nodes and connections. You're touching networked learning—slow-motion and erratic, to be sure, but solid and present and, truth to tell, thrilling.

“The chief trick to making good mistakes is not to hide them — especially not from yourself.”

Apprendre à programmer permet aux enfants un nouveau rapport aux technologies: de consommateur interactif de manuels scolaires numérisés à la capacité de créer des ressources éducatives numériques et même des mini-jeux.

The whole organic nature of learning experience through the #walkmyworld learning events meant that I learned what I needed to learn as I needed to learn it. It wasn’t a top down dictate of learning outcomes because the outcomes were determined by the process. It is a revolutionary concept — yet as ancient as Aristotle. Learning should never be measured solely by standard outcomes; people learn, and I mean really LEARN, when they discover for themselves what they know, what they want to know, and how they want to know it.

“The key is deliberate practice: not just doing it again and again, but challenging yourself with a task that is just beyond your current ability, trying it, analyzing your performance while and after doing it, and correcting any mistakes. Then repeat. And repeat again. There appear to be no real shortcuts: even Mozart, who was a musical prodigy at age 4, took 13 more years before he began to produce world-class music.”

focus groups where students self-report the effectiveness of the materials are common, particularly among textbook publishers

It’s educators who come up with hypotheses and test them using a large data set.

learned from experience

a good example of the kind of insight that big data is completely blind to

I will investigate the details on this, including the relevant contractual clauses, when I get the chance.

taking a swipe at Knewton

they are making a bet against the software as a replacement for the teacher and against big data

a set of algorithms designed to optimize the commitment of knowledge to long-term memory

numbers have to be interpreted by those who do the daily work of classroom teaching

The challenge, of course, is how to balance concerns of the Hawthorne effect with privacy.

Regular readers know that I am a big fan of the standard-in-development.

If Knewton were doing more of this, I wouldn’t be as critical.

purchasable à la carte

Personalized course materials made possible by real data

Soon, data will make learning outcomes for these courses highly transparent

to offer just lectures

when outcomes are non-transparent

Unbundling has played out in almost every media industry.

wring out every ounce of performance

increased investment in professional development and teaching-friendly tenure and promotion practices

OpenAI is a non-profit artificial intelligence research company. Our goal is to advance digital intelligence in the way that is most likely to benefit humanity as a whole, unconstrained by a need to generate financial return.

Big Sur is our newest Open Rack-compatible hardware designed for AI computing at a large scale. In collaboration with partners, we've built Big Sur to incorporate eight high-performance GPUs

The most popular project for the MUA to tackle was Learning Analytics

Lambda Solutions [Corrected.]

help build a community that functions as a collective pool of knowledge and possibility

literary Facebook

a study by Stephen Schueller, published last year in the Journal of Positive Psychology, found that people assigned to a happiness activity similar to one for which they previously expressed a preference showed significantly greater increases in happiness than people assigned to an activity not based on a prior preference. This, writes Schueller, is “a model for positive psychology exercises similar to Netflix for movies or Amazon for books and other products.”

elementary school children become increasingly inattentive in class when recess is delayed. Similarly, studies conducted in French and Canadian elementary schools over a period of four years found that regular physical activity had positive effects on academic performance. Spending one third of the school day in physical education, art, and music improved not only physical fitness, but attitudes toward learning and test scores. These findings echo those from one analysis of 200 studies on the effects of exercise on cognitive functioning, which also suggests that physical activity promotes learning.

TPOT is a Python tool that automatically creates and optimizes machine learning pipelines using genetic programming. Think of TPOT as your “Data Science Assistant”: TPOT will automate the most tedious part of machine learning by intelligently exploring thousands of possible pipelines, then recommending the pipelines that work best for your data.

Nanodegree Program Summary Machine learning represents a key evolution in the fields of computer science, data analysis, software engineering, and artificial intelligence. It has quickly become industry's preferred way to make sense of the staggering volume of data our modern world produces. Machine learning engineers build programs that dynamically perform the analyses that data scientists used to perform manually. These programs can “learn” based on millions of experiences, all rigorously and numerically defined.

learning spaces

SUNY

grows exponentially.

What is the correlation between levels of student responses to each other and outcomes?

read by any Caliper-compliant system

Caliper WordPress plugin

most blogs have a feature called “pingbacks,”

prior learning assessments

adaptive learning with multiple levels of support.

technology-assisted differentiated instruction

Personal Learning Record will define how to represent, capture and leverage user activity, including ratings, test results and performance measures in a distributed learning and work environment.

Resource Repository Network will create a resource graph of learning/training resources data from multiple sources and formats including live and dynamic data

e-learning technologies and standards: SCORM, LOM, IMS-LD, IMS-CC, IMS-QTI, IMS-CP, LDL, SLD