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Four to Five Years: Learning Analytics « 2011 Horizon Report - 1 views

  • Learning analytics promises to harness the power of advances in data mining, interpretation, and modeling to improve understandings of teaching and learning, and to tailor education to individual students more effectively. Still in its early stages, learning analytics responds to calls for accountability on campuses across the country, and leverages the vast amount of data produced by students in day-to-day academic activities. While learning analytics has already been used in admissions and fund-raising efforts on several campuses, “academic analytics” is just beginning to take shape
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    horizon report
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    This website shows how Learning Analytics can help in different things, like School, and technology
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    This is the horizon report that the whole project is based on.
MARISA R

What Can We Learn About Assessment From Video Games? | edte.ch - 0 views

  • The types of “dynamic and ongoing feedback” that help a player improve at the point of learning - the summary sheets help us to reflect on how we scored but this is the same as what grade did I get
  • Not just seeing the individual method of feedback in isolation but placing it within the whole picture, the whole plan for supporting new players and helping them to be successful.
  • Unfortunately points scoring and rewards are in the short term ‘easy’ ways for teachers to motivate pupils to do what the are told. Look at the number of ‘team points’ and ‘star charts’ that exist in primary schools. This may get them to behave in the required way, but it teaches pupils that only things that are worth doing are things that get them a number score…
    • MARISA R
       
      Good point was made here. How do we keep them interested without taking away from them making their own choices.
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  • to only value tangible and quantifiable outcomes like rewards and grades
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    Article about game based learning.
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