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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

University of Phoenix are on the right track here. "In an effort ambitiously dubbed the "Learning Genome Project," the for-profit powerhouse says it is building a new learning management system (or LMS) that gets to know each of its 400,000 students [ed. now reduced to 360,000] personally and adapts to accommodate the idiosyncrasies of their 'learning DNA.'" Elliot Masie put it nicely last week in a webinar I was on - he said self-directed learning is like a sandwich bar where customers make their own sandwiches. It is up to us to provide them with great ingredients and then stand back and let them go for it. LA enables that sandwich bar to observe its customers, analyse their needs and dynamically adapt itself to help them make a better sandwich. Cool! #LAK13

Now I just want to see a distribution of this LMS for corporate use!! #LAK13

About the Course: In this eleven-week course you'll learn about the tools used by scientists to understand complex systems. The topics you'll learn about include dynamics, chaos, fractals, information theory, self-organization, agent-based modeling, and networks. You'll also get a sense of how these topics fit together to help explain how complexity arises and evolves in nature, society, and technology. There are no prerequisites. You don't need a science or math background to take this introductory course; it simply requires an interest in the field and the willingness to participate in a hands-on approach to the subject.

"One thing is certain - as learning materials digitise and the popularity of Moocs grows, we will see a very different model of education unfold. This model will draw on data and insight, as much as faculty knowledge and experience, to ensure that education materials and learning processes are as effective as possible."

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?

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

From the comments: Breaking News . . . scholars at Harvard University announced today that they have made an important discovery of a new activity they are calling, "college teaching." Although not at liberty to divulge details, one senior official indicated that this new activity may have important implications for education. Scholars believe "college teaching" has something to do with student learning but they are not at all sure what that connection is. If this turns out to be true then, as one anonymous, but really famous NYT columnist said, "This is the greatest development in modern society since the ones I reported on in my last book. Fortunately, you will be able to read about it in my new book very soon."

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

Imagine when these families come into contact with MOOC-provided learning experiences/content; a domain of the MOOC discussion I haven't heard explored with empirical data before ...