Learning Analytics - Introduction: #lak12

Opening video by George Siemens:
http://learninganalytics.us4.list-manage.com/track/click?u=a4ec1ac8f3a7bdd588aa1ebf1&id=5afcab363f&e=dd73527070

- this was informative and provided an acceptable introduction and overview to the course

Per George, here were some of the notes I captured from his introduction, for class reference:

This will be an Open Online Course for the next 8 weeks, which will lead up to the Learning Analytics conference in Vancouver some time in April or May 2012. This course is being hosted by the Society for Learning Analytics Research

This online course is different from other centralized management or learning systems.
This course is a participatory pedagogical model.
This will be a distributed course with distributed conversations.

Each week during the course participants can expect to:
- create a blog
- interact with other students and track other participants involvement in the course
- own your own space of interaction, through your blog, or choice of social media
- allows participants to form a personal learning network or structure that naturally lasts beyond the duration of the course, which serves as one outcome for the course

There will be a weekly live session through Blackboard Collaborate (instructions are provided on the website where to access Blackboard Collaborate).

Participants are being asked of various things:
- active blogging
- share resources
- contribute to the wiki
- Biblio on the main site - list other resources that might be useful to the field of learning analytics

There will be a week where we are focusing on tools and techniques
How do we analyze a text document?
How do we analyze interaction space?
How do we analyze physical world data that we capture from classroom activities?
- ask of participants to:
- share their favorite tools and techniques
- what do you do with the tools
- provide an opportunity to learn from the course instructors and other participants

Ethical and Appropriate Uses of Learning Analytics
- think together - what would be an ethical criteria
- what are the ethics that influence analytics

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