Authority relations behind the scenes of online education – Bjarke Anderson, 24 Apr https://t.co/pkVxbnKndX #deresearch #mscde
— Jeremy Knox (@j_k_knox) March 31, 2017
I would love to be able to attend this event, as I would have liked to attend recent lectures by Audrey Watters and on Critical Pedagogy at Edinburgh. I will look out for recordings.
The title is interesting – erosion and sedimentation recall my lifestream analogyĀ and underpin how words and metaphors perform our world.
Just Pinned to Education and Digital Cultures:
Among the best ways to improve the usefulness of search results is to analyse which links were ultimately clicked by people who previously performed the same search, as well as what the user has searched for before.
Google has far more of that data than anyone else. That suggests the company may continue to shape our access to knowledge for generations to come.
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@helenwalker7 James said difficult to dictate count for artefact. Using my judgement š± #mscedc
— Cathy Hills (@fleurhills) March 26, 2017
@Digeded Keyhole analytics of #mscedc showing sentiment, gender split etc. https://t.co/qMGag1zvcS pic.twitter.com/2M2gL4Eqj5
— Nigel Painting (@nigelchpainting) March 24, 2017
Studying different analytical tools allows us a better view of ‘the processes inherent to analysis itself‘ (Knox, 2015), allowing us to see what might be considered success under their terms.
Knox, J. (2014). Abstracting Learning Analytics. Code Acts in Education ESRC seminar series blog. http://codeactsineducation.wordpress.com/2014/09/26/abstracting-learning-analytics/
Great #mscedc tutorial there, thanks everyone for your contribution. And thanks to @c4miller for bringing his green screen to class. pic.twitter.com/adHCTgOjFp
— James Lamb (@james858499) March 24, 2017
After some analysis, I consider this great picture to be one suitable representation of an interesting and useful tutorial!
I watched a demonstration of this automated essay-improving software on YouTube and desperately want to try it out to see if it works. I thought it interesting that in these days of hypermedia one of the aims of OpenEssayist was to ensure student essays followed the traditional beginning, middle and end, showing how our narrative linear literacies have not been challenged here.
culture, comms and algos 'we r past the days whre thr can be one single picture that encaps national taste' https://t.co/n8eZFua6NN #mscedc
— Cathy Hills (@fleurhills) March 23, 2017
Learning analytics can add to our understanding of the conditions for learning when used in conjunction with human judgement and triangulated with information from other sources. More importantly, it is a measure of wider political and societal concerns such as the marketization of education led by Silicon Valley giant corporations.
Image from https://hellohart.com/2015/05/25/the-mathematics-of-crochet/
by crocheting computer-generated instructions of the Lorenz manifold: all crochet stitches together define the surface of initial conditions that under influence of the vector field generated by the Lorenz equations end up at the origin; all other initial conditions go to the butterfly attractor that has chaotic dynamics. The overall shape of the surface is created by little local changes: adding or removing points at each step
Art or craft can make complex mathematics ‘visible’ for the layperson revealing its beauty and intricacies and opening up ways of understanding what composes ourĀ black boxed technologies.
@j_k_knox How could we use 'non-representational' data? We could wear it! https://t.co/tSWWXkg0BK #mscedc
— Cathy Hills (@fleurhills) March 23, 2017
@HerrSchwindenh_ #mscedc Thanks for posting this Dirk. I did notice Angela was missing!
— Cathy Hills (@fleurhills) March 23, 2017
What Learning Analytics prioritises may have little to do with what we consider important for learning.