LMS Reporting is a crucial feature of any modern online course and it shows full advantage of Big Data nowadays. But admit it, just looking at figures and metrics is of little use.
When big data in eLearning is discussed, I often reflect on the difference in the terms data and information. Data is, of course, raw recorded information...
The use of big data and analytics in education continues to grow. A vast apparatus of measurement is being developed to underpin national education systems, institutions and the actions of the individuals who occupy them. […] The presence of digital data and software in education is being amplified through massive financial and political investment in…
According to technology experts that would have increased from 130 to 40000 exabytes ten and a half years before 2020. Some research writers have estimated that…
In this learning analytics blog post, Andrew Downes dives deeper into the dimensions within the learner categories and explores how organizations report on the data about their learners.
Are you already involved in learning analytics or want to find out how the new big data era can support your teaching or research activities? Maybe you are ...
Professor Mark Brown is Director of the National Institute for Digital Learning (NIDL) based at Dublin City University (DCU) interviewed by LACE project's Maren Scheffel at EC-TEL conference in Toledo, Spain, September 2015
Across the globe institutions are exploring the opportunities technology affords to provide a better, more consistent, and more personalised service to their students and stakeholders.
von: Nina Wieczorek Einleitung Big Data – das große Thema der digitalen Transformation. Mit den rasanten digitalen Entwicklungen und der Informationsexplosion gehen zahlreiche Veränderungen einher. Diese Veränderungen spiegeln sich auch in unseren Bildungssystemen wieder, denn Big Data bietet auch für das Lernen enorme Potentiale. Ein Beispiel hierfür sind die beiden Entwicklungen von „Educational Data Mining“…
Learner interaction in an online educational environment (logging for example into a virtual learning management system) leaves a lot of digital traces behind.
Eliciting useful and reliable insights from educational data is part science, part art. With decades of experience in data analysis of educational technologies' performance, Macmillan Learning has developed a playbook of best practices to help you succeed in your own educational data analysis.
Using wireless-network data to determine where students spend their time on campus could help those students succeed. The idea is a little cool. It's also kind of creepy.
La analítica de aprendizaje resulta de la aplicación del big data a la formación y el desarrollo consiste en analizar los datos que deja tras de sí un estudiante en sus procesos de formación y aprendizaje y utilizar la información para mejorarlos
Purdue University researchers have developed a new way to track the effectiveness of online learning programs, speeches and businesses, and determine if anyone really cares enough to download the material.
Guest presentation by Paul Prinsloo: SASUF Symposium: Digital Technologies, Big Data, and Cybersecurity, Vaal University of Technology, Vanderbijlpark, South Africa, 15 May 2018
Learning data analysis can help you make important decisions about your eLearning content. But how are you going to collect this information and, most importantly, how are you going to use it properly?
Vassilios Verykios from Hellenic Open University gave a presentation about Assessing Students and Tutors with Learning Analytics Dashboards as part of the online events by expert pool Assessment within EMPOWER
Critical thoughts from a professor (mso) in the Department of Communication and Psychology at Aalborg University who works within the area of educational technology and is more specifically interested in Networked Learning, Problem Based Learning and collaborative learning
As Big Data and analytics become increasingly central to the management of both the academic and bureaucratic arms of postsecondary institutions, it’s critical for leaders to deal with issues around algorithmic bias, transparency, data ownership and more.
With access to predictive analytics and more data than ever before, how can universities avoid invading students’ privacy while promoting academic success?
Candace Thille, with the Stanford Graduate School of Education highlights the power of platform tools and technologies to transform observation and data collection.
Many new online teachers I work with as a faculty trainer do not fully understand what all the fuss is about when it comes to learning analytics, data analysis, predictive analytics, and even the popular big data concept.
UNE Center for Global Humanities and its founding director, Anouar Majid, host Frank Pasquale on "Technology, Self and Society in an Era of Digital Rankings."
Bonnie Tijerina discusses the Supporting Ethics in Data Research project, which explores the current and potential partnerships between computer science researchers, librarians, and support systems on campus to address emerging ethical issues in the research process
With more than 425,000 students set to start university in the coming weeks, here's how big data can help institutions provide the best service possible
The same big data techniques that are transforming other industries are seeping into the college and university admissions process to help predict whether students will succeed and graduate.
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