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George Bradford

About | SNAPP - Social Networks Adapting Pedagogical Practice - 3 views

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    "The Social Networks Adapting Pedagogical Practice (SNAPP) tool performs real-time social network analysis and visualization of discussion forum activity within popular commercial and open source Learning Management Systems (LMS). SNAPP essentially serves as a diagnostic instrument, allowing teaching staff to evaluate student behavioral patterns against learning activity design objectives and intervene as required a timely manner. Valuable interaction data is stored within a discussion forum but from the default threaded display of messages it is difficult to determine the level and direction of activity between participants. SNAPP infers relationship ties from the post-reply data and renders a social network diagram below the forum thread. The social network visualization can be filtered based upon user activity and social network data can be exported for further analysis in NetDraw. SNAPP integrates seamlessly with a variety of Learning Management Systems (Blackboard, Moodle and Desire2Learn) and must be triggered while a forum thread is displayed in a Web browser."
George Bradford

[!!!] Penetrating the Fog: Analytics in Learning and Education (EDUCAUSE Review) | EDUC... - 0 views

  • Continued growth in the amount of data creates an environment in which new or novel approaches are required to understand the patterns of value that exist within the data.
  • learning analytics is the measurement, collection, analysis and reporting of data about learners and their contexts, for purposes of understanding and optimising learning and the environments in which it occurs.
  • Academic analytics, in contrast, is the application of business intelligence in education and emphasizes analytics at institutional, regional, and international levels.
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  • Course-level:
  • Educational data-mining
  • Intelligent curriculum
  • Adaptive content
  • the University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC) Check My Activity tool, allows learners to “compare their own activity . . . against an anonymous summary of their course peers.
  • Mobile devices
  • social media monitoring tools (e.g., Radian6)
  • Analytics in education must be transformative, altering existing teaching, learning, and assessment processes, academic work, and administration.
    • George Bradford
       
      See Bradford - Brief vision of the semantic web as being used to support future learning: http://heybradfords.com/moonlight/research-resources/SemWeb_EducatorsVision 
    • George Bradford
       
      See Peter Goodyear's work on the Ecology of Sustainable e-Learning in Education.
  • How “real time” should analytics be in classroom settings?
  • Adaptive learning
  • EDUCAUSE Review, vol. 46, no. 5 (September/October 2011)
  • Penetrating the Fog: Analytics in Learning and Education
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    Attempts to imagine the future of education often emphasize new technologies-ubiquitous computing devices, flexible classroom designs, and innovative visual displays. But the most dramatic factor shaping the future of higher education is something that we can't actually touch or see: big data and analytics. Basing decisions on data and evidence seems stunningly obvious, and indeed, research indicates that data-driven decision-making improves organizational output and productivity.1 For many leaders in higher education, however, experience and "gut instinct" have a stronger pull.
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