{"id":317,"date":"2014-09-24T17:51:20","date_gmt":"2014-09-24T17:51:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/marendeepwell.wordpress.com\/?p=317"},"modified":"2014-09-24T17:51:20","modified_gmt":"2014-09-24T17:51:20","slug":"big-data-learning-analytics-do-you-know-enough-about-your-learners-data-and-what-you-do-with-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/marendeepwell.com\/?p=317","title":{"rendered":"Big data? Learning analytics? Do you know enough about your learners&#8217; data and what you do with it?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;&#8221;<strong>With policy and commercial developments firmly focused on &#8216;big data&#8217; 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 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/playlist?list=PLxoWy14N6f8tzGESpBkgW9jAXEUuS2SPU\">ALT&#8217;s Annual Conference<\/a> earlier this month.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Earlier in the year, as part of ALT&#8217;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 &amp; Simon Knight, from the Knowledge Media Institute, Open University, UK (you can read their submission in full in this <a href=\"http:\/\/people.kmi.open.ac.uk\/sbs\/2014\/06\/learning-analytics-input-to-etag\/\">blog post from 5 June 2014<\/a>). 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&#8221;&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>You can read my full article in <a title=\"Link to article\" href=\"http:\/\/www.fenews.co.uk\/featured-article\/big-data-learning-analytics-do-you-know-enough-about-your-learners-data-and-what-you-do-with-it\">FE News here<\/a>. Published 24 September 2014.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;&#8221;With policy and commercial developments firmly focused on &#8216;big data&#8217; 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&#8217;s Annual Conference earlier this month. Earlier in the year, as part of ALT&#8217;s work for ETAG, the Education Technology Action Group, we had invited contributions from a range of individuals and organisations and received what I&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/marendeepwell.com\/?p=317\">Read more<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Big data? Learning analytics? Do you know enough about your learners&#8217; data and what you do with it?<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,12,13,16,27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-317","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-analytics","category-fe","category-fe-news","category-learning-technology","category-tech","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7wa4N-57","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/marendeepwell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/317","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/marendeepwell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/marendeepwell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marendeepwell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marendeepwell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=317"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/marendeepwell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/317\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/marendeepwell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=317"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marendeepwell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=317"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marendeepwell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=317"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}