LAK2012

While it might make people uncomfortable, this makes sense for the FBI. There's value in that there data. Poindexter's TIA is moving ahead!!

We use QM Perception extensively for evaluating learning/capability and deploying surveys. Most valuable to our analysis is the Item Analysis report which has extensive data and built in data for psychometric analysis.

Social tools in a highly regulated financial org are highly controlled, so we use Sharepoint for most of the sharing and collaboration. We analyze SP activity streams and add in some links for our LMS content where appropriate. We are now looking to integrate with our assessment platform (Questionmark) and feeds from out BI Tools (proprietary) to create KPI dashboards to track performance issues, prescribe learning assets where appropriate (still working on model/mechanics)

One word? Analytics.

Analytics meets the Academy Awards...The "People's Oscar" tool co-developed by the L.A. Times, IBM and the University of Southern California Annenberg Innovation Lab analyzes Twitter opinions about who's going to win Academy Awards. An 'entertaining' example of how semantic analysis is performed on large set of unstructured data/tweets.

IPO season in analytics

city analytics

Most of the consumers of data from today's marketplaces are developers. By adding another dataset to your own business data, you can create insight.

lots of VC flowing into big data startups...

Big Data Gap

New! NMC Horizon Report > 2012 Higher Ed Edition. Learning analytics is on the 2nd Horizon, in two or three years...

This project seeks to assess the emergence of Personal Learning Environmentsboth as a concept and as a new set of tools in the area of E-Learning. While existinglearning or instructional design theories within formal education have traditionally beenadopted in E-Learning to deliver content in the form of Learning Management Systemsfor instance, recent technological and sociological developments are starting to challengethis dominant design. Over the last few years, Web 2.0 technologies have enabled a moreactive user participation, interaction and collaboration which in turn have affected theway people learn in general. A new learning theory like Connectivism theory is echoingthese changes while at the same time acknowledging that the process of knowledgeacquisition is no longer confined to formal education. Learning also takes place ininformal settings, in the workplace and is increasingly becoming a social activity. Auser-centric Personal Learning Environment can support these new approaches tolearning in a wide range of contexts. This research proposes a conceptual model for ageneric Personal Learning Environment using the PersonalBrain mind-mapping software.Even though every individual user of a PLE will have a different perspective and require separate tools to fulfil distinct objectives, the proposed generic PLE conceptual modeldemonstrates that it can fulfil core activities of searching, analysing, authoring,collaborating, organising and presenting/

good chart at the end of the article comparing different IaaS solutions