Hack Education

JUNE 22, 2017

I was asked to speak about learning analytics, but like I said in my keynote last week at NMC , ed-tech is boring. But it’s become not so much a philosophy of introspection or reflection but a compulsion for data collection and data analysis. So this is a talk about pedometers. We now live in a culture of quantification.

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Iterating Toward Openness

JULY 17, 2020

Reposting this message I sent to the Learning Analytics mailing list earlier this morning. When I hear people say “learning engineering” I hear them talking about Reese’s cups. You measure its success at supporting student learning using a variety of analysis techniques. You re-design them.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 12, 2019

Not everyone thinks that’s possible, of course, and even Cavanagh, vice provost for digital learning at the University of Central Florida, admits that edtech can spark plenty of new ethical challenges along the way. We could probably do multiple episodes on learning analytics, maybe there's a whole podcast about it out there somewhere.

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IAD Learning

JULY 26, 2017

15 Strategies You Can Follow Today to Successfully Deploy Your Learning Analytics Tool. Deploying a learning analytics tool in your organization brings many benefits, including improving your students’ engagement and their success rates. Lead the project from the learning innovation side, not from IT.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 10, 2017

I pointed to several historical examples of how the collection, categorization, and analysis of data led to discriminatory and even deadly political practices – racism and the US Census, for example, and the history of IBM and how its statistical analysis helped the Nazis identify Jews.

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