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More stuff for the Analytics box. If this can grab authenticated data then return it through a dashboard display, it could give students a wide view of what they are doing - Moodle, library, facebook contacts with classmates etc.

A review of UK and international practice.

"This post is to mark post conference publication which provides you with a variety of examples on how Moodle is used throughout Ireland and the UK. The publication contains six articles where the authors of each article volunteered to expand upon their conference presentation and share their experience in detail with you. This publication covers a wide variety of topics from optimising the layout of your Moodle course to analysing the usage of your course through Google Analytics. Hopefully this represents the first of many publications along the same line where Moodle users from the conference produce detailed articles sharing their Moodle experience."

George Siemens on failing to get a research chair but also including his proposal for a centre to study social media and learer analytics.

Start of a project at Bolton Uni to data warehouse with Linked Data components.

A great analytical history of LMS development by Dave Kernohan.

"R is an open source statistical programming language"

"I saw a post about Collusion - a Firefox add-on that maps links between websites, both the ones you go to directly, and the ones that send media and pull tracking info."

Google Correlate finds search patterns which correspond with real-world trends.

Long piece on breaking HE into component parts, technology and competency education.

Research on the sources that Wikipedia contributors use.