Maren Deepwell

Category: analytics

  • Reports as chief executive of ALT

    In my role as chief executive of the Association for Learning Technology, I write regular reports on the work we do with and for our members. You can read all of the recent reports in ALT’s online newsletter.

    Annual SurveyIn my most recent report I mentioned ALT’s new Annual Survey, findings from which have been published at the end of February 2015. The report and the related data are now openly accessible via ALT’s Open Access Repository. You can download both here. The findings provide interesting insights into the priorities of ALT members for the year ahead, including a marked rise in learning analytics and related use of data. I am really interested to see how these trends will change in the next twelve months.

  • Big data? Learning analytics? Do you know enough about your learners’ data and what you do with it?

    …”With policy and commercial developments firmly focused on ‘big data’ and all that entails, I was interested to come across quite a few sessions and speakers talking about how we use data in learning, particularly formal education at ALT’s Annual Conference earlier this month.

    Earlier in the year, as part of ALT’s work for ETAG, the Education Technology Action Group, we had invited contributions from a range of individuals and organisations and received what I think is a really helpful contribution from Simon Buckingham Shum & Simon Knight, from the Knowledge Media Institute, Open University, UK (you can read their submission in full in this blog post from 5 June 2014). Personally, I found the way in which some of the terminology is explained helpful, for example, the way in which the concept of learning analytics was visualised”…

    You can read my full article in FE News here. Published 24 September 2014.