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"Evidence shows that engaged students perform better academically than disinterested students. Measurement of engagement with education is difficult and imprecise, especially in large student cohorts. Traditional measurements such as summary statistics derived from assessment are crude secondary measures of engagement at best and do not provide much support for educators to work with students and curate engagement during teaching periods. We have used academic-related student contributions to a public social network as a proxy for engagement. Statistical summaries and novel data visualisation tools provide subtle and powerful insights into online student peer networks. Analysis of data collected shows that network visualisation can be an important curation tool for educators interested in cultivating student engagement."

Worth keeping this one in mind

For the second consecutive year, the eLearning Guild survey, which measures use of over 100 professionally-developed LMS products and excludes in-house created sys­tems, shows that Moodle™ is ranked as the #1 LMS product among eLearning Guild members with over 24% of respondents selecting it as their primary LMS.

For the second consecutive year, the eLearning Guild survey, which measures use of over 100 professionally-developed LMS products and excludes in-house created sys­tems, shows that Moodle™ is ranked as the #1 LMS product among eLearning Guild members with over 24% of respondents selecting it as their primary LMS.

Downes on Mooc quality and why common measurements are flawed.

project led by University of Sussex to develop advanced analytics in Mahara

"Today's XKCD comic inspired this article. It details the rise of Tumblr and the subsequent fall of blogs. That's in terms of simply the popularity of the term as it's used across the web. While not an exact measure of blogging or Tumblr, it's an important turning point in the age of the web."

In growing numbers, scholars are integrating social media tools like blogs, Twitter, and Mendeley into their professional communications. The online, public nature of these tools exposes and reifies scholarly processes once hidden and ephemeral. Metrics based on this activities could inform broader, faster measures of impact, complementing traditional citation metrics. This study explores the properties of these social media-based metrics or "altmetrics," sampling 24,331 articles published by the Public Library of Science.

"In 1939 a young musician from the Zulu cultural group in South Africa, penned down what came to be the most popular albeit controversial and internationally acclaimed song of the times. Popular because the song somehow found its way into international households via the renowned Disney's Lion King. Controversial because the popularity passage of the song was tainted with illicit and grossly unfair dealings tantamount to theft and dishonest misappropriation of traditional intellectual property, giving rise to a lawsuit that ultimately culminated in the out of court settlement of the case. The lessons to be gained by the world and emanating from this dramatics, all pointed out to the dire need for a reconsideration of measures to be urgently put in place for the safeguarding of cultural intellectual relic such as music and dance."

"Competencies not Literacies! Measurable, deliverable, understandable. Why are people trying to burden students [& staff] with things they can't even define?"<--hmm something rang true for me here.

Course it's not piracy - that's something that happens on the high seas. And it's also not p2p either, which is used as a measure by RIANZ for copyright infringement.

Interesting and easy to read piece on why predictive analytics can be beaten by knowledge on the ground and what we can learn from data and measurement error.

Post on how to design PD so we can determine if it worked.

Eric Mazur has swapped the nature of teaching and non-contact time and released it as a software. "The basic idea is that the bulk of information consumption should be done outside the classroom and in-class time should be spent doing guided, measured, optimized peer-to-peer discussion in order to maximize retention of knowledge"

Measured but sharp letter from Gian Perrone to MP re NZ Filesharing Bill 

A very long and detailed post looking at the maths of the pandemic and mitigation measures. The sooner you implement distancing the better.

A set of measurable criteria to assess how well the design of classrooms support and enable active learning

Interesting look at the difference between f2f and online/flipped classes and why any chorus complaining that online doesn't have the human impact is a red herring. Also uses Mazur's thresholds as an example.

Following #mootau15 & @vmarchant's session on #retention using @Jeanette_242's #completion #research http://t.co/qWBEUM3WsA looks useful.

Following #mootau15 & @vmarchant's session on #retention using @Jeanette_242's #completion #research http://t.co/qWBEUM3WsA looks useful.