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short article arguing that prediction misses the reality of random events that cannot be anticipated as well as human agency in creating futures beyond what we can predict

I am not sure where there is direct relevance to Learning Analytics. There is no doubt that mining the public data of social network will be useful for identifying trends, possibly with implications for learning. The big unknown is how reliable is it? Are these networks representative of a population or specific group? I am not convinced of that.

Rather depressing, but data trails are neutral. The only value they hold is what we apply to them during analysis.

Note: I am involved with this project and can answer questions. As might be expected, the article makes things sound further along than they actually are.

good short article that introduces the concept of learning analytics