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Using advanced sensing and artificial intelligence technologies, we are investigating new ways to assess project-based activities, examining students' speech, gestures, sketches, and artifacts in order to better characterize their learning over extended periods of time. Particularly aimed at assessing important skills that are currently hard to assess: creativity, innovation, critical thinking, problem solving, communication, and collaboration. And this is even more challenging in large scale learning environments. Using sensing and data mining technologies could make it possible to capture and analyze massive amounts of process data of classroom activities. https://tltl.stanford.edu/project/multimodal-learning-analytics

"We see students coming in as freshmen saying they want to be statisticians," said Robert Gould, who is on the statistics faculty at the University of California, Los Angeles. "That was unheard-of before the AP test." In a still-soft jobs market, rising demand for statisticians also has spurred interest in the field. There were 28,305 postings for jobs in statistics, analytics and, in the trendy phrase, "big data" at the jobs website icrunchdata last month, up from 16,500 three years earlier, according to Todd Nevins, a site co-founder.

Presents the Learning Analytics Acceptance Model (LAAM) of factors influencing the beliefs of educators concerning the adoption a learning analytics tool.

Kicked off my reading with Simon's briefing on Learning Analytics. An excellent summary of the high-level concepts and potential use cases of LA, as well as notes on the aspects of LA that still require further debate. #LAK13

This article really has me jumping up and down because I can see how it could be applied in a business / large enterprise setting. #LAK13

https://docs.google.com/drawings/d/1wEsOLyiSO364yKtRkhkSRoOiQIPBW7MZfwu_rJvpfek/edit?usp=sharing #LAK13

If we can do a tricorder for health, then we can do one for learning? That would be like a 'killer app' for learning analytics?

"The companies that figure out how to generate intelligence from that data will know more about us than we know ourselves, and will be able to craft techniques that push us toward where they want us to go, rather than where we would go by ourselves if left to our own devices. "