221 Matching Annotations
  1. Dec 2015
    1. The most popular project for the MUA to tackle was Learning Analytics

      Although Dougiamas claims Moodle already has what is needed in the form of logs and reports: no need for Caliper or xAPI.

    1. Lambda Solutions [Corrected.]

      Oh? They were quite present at MoodleMoot. Wonder what their ties are. Clearly, their solution isn’t free software. Nor is it pushing Open Standards for Learning Analytics.

  2. Nov 2015
    1. grows exponentially.

      As we get into “Big Data”, individual datapoints become less important.

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

      Levels and types of responses. Just read such an analysis, based on Brookfield and Preskill’s “Conversational Moves”.

    3. read by any Caliper-compliant system

      Or any Learning Record Store.

    4. Caliper WordPress plugin

      How long before we get such a thing?

    5. most blogs have a feature called “pingbacks,”

      Annotations should have “pingbacks”, too. But the most important thing is how to process those later on. We do get into the Activity Streams behind much Learning Analytics.

    1. 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.
  3. Sep 2015
    1. Commercial publishers and content producers say there's reason to doubt the quality of open resources

      Have they demonstrated so clearly that their textbooks have enhanced learning? Oh, wait. They set the criteria by which we assess learning and push for their own brand of Learning Analytics, so…

  4. Aug 2015
  5. Apr 2015
    1. But as this escalated, local governments and police lost sight of their original purpose and focused more and more on punching up the number of arrests and punishments — rather than helping impoverished communities rise up.

      True in education as well.

  6. Jan 2015