Marius Wehner und Lynn Schmodde von der Wirtschaftswissenschaftlichen Fakultät der Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf berichten von ihrer Forschung zu Learning Analytics. Im Verbundprojekt LADi haben sie Diskriminierungspotenziale und Bias in den Algorithmen untersucht sowie die Wahrnehmung der Lernenden von Beurteilungen durch Learning Analytics. Interviewer in Folge 11 des DINItus Podcasts ist Erik Reidt vom ZIM/Multimediazentrum der HHU Düsseldorf.
There is a recognised lack of international literature on advising and tutoring in Higher Education (HE). In an international context, advising and tutoring is of great importance and, in that regard, global research can help to build a credible evidence base for our practice and to acknowledge the centrality of high quality advising and tutoring to teaching, learning and student success.
LSI provides standards-based, research-driven tools, technology, books, and professional development solutions for school improvement, school turnaround, school transformation, student-centered classrooms, observation and evaluation, curriculum, and leadership practices, resulting in rapid gains in student learning.
Keynote presentation at LASI-Rocky Mountains online conference, 12 June 2017, based on a similar talk at LAK17, Learning Analytics and Knowledge Conference 2017, Vancouver. An analysis of the nature of evidence, the state of the evidence in the field of learning analytics, and some suggestions for ways to improve, based on work from the LACE project's Evidence Hub.
"I have lost track of the number of times I have heard educators repeat the stereotypes about the Net Generation: short attention span, expert mutitaskers, technologically savvy etc etc. Countless Michael Wesch-like You Tube videos are circulating urging us to wake up and change our ways or else risk losing an entire generation of learners who we are failing to engage. The answer, we are told, is more digital technology. We are letting consultants, futurists, technology sales people and others with a limited understanding of education set the agenda. We blindly accept their recommendations and repeat them as fact"