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Learning analytics different from big data in "their concern for providing value to teachers and learners (p14)" Research challenges needing to be addressed to achieve ideal scenarios of use: - Develop expertise in the provision of formative feedback and analytics - Develop methods of presenting analytics and visualizing data that are easy to use and understand - Adopt standards for the structure and export of data - Adopt standards for the structure and export of data - Broaden the focus to include not only higher education in formal settings, but also schools, workplace learning, informal learning and lifelong learning - Identify and address the issues around ethics, privacy and ownership of data (p13-14) ABSTRACT: "Learning analytics is a significant area of technology‐enhanced learning that has emerged during the last decade. This review of the field begins with an examination of the technological, educational and political factors that have driven the development of analytics in educational settings. It goes on to chart the emergence of learning analytics, including their origins in the 20th century, the development of data-driven analytics, the rise of learning-focused perspectives and the influence of national economic concerns. It next focuses on the relationships between learning analytics, educational data mining and academic analytics. Finally, it sets out the current state of learning analytics research, and identifies a series of future challenges."

Andrew Chung (partner, Khosla Ventures); Beth Comstock (senior VP, GE); Andie Grace aka "Actiongrl" (communications manager and regional network manager, Burning Man); Jason Silva (co-founding host, Current TV); Don Tapscott (co-author, Macrowikinomics) "This is not an Information Age - it's one of networking, collaboration"; Craig Hatkoff (co-founder, Tribeca Film Festival) "The question is are we wise enough"?

An Introduction to SLAM at U-M, September 14, 2012 by the chair of the Provost's Learning Analytics Taskforce