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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."

characteristics of open: * enrollment (i.e., open registration), licensed materials (using Creative Commons) * gratis (available at no-cost), libre (everyone has legal rights to repurpose the resource) but some of the "new cohort of MOOCs are open enrollment but not yet openly licensed their courses (experimenting with various business models) "MOOCs should address copyright and licensing early on so they are clear to users how they can utilize and reuse educational materials offered on the site. MOOCs should choose to adopt an open license that meets their goals, but at minimum it is recommended that they choose a public, standardized license that grants to its users the "4Rs" of open content: the ability to Reuse, Revise, Remix, and Redistribute the resources. "