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Researching with and through technologies
Gráinne Conole PhD Research Day
University of Leicester14th September 2012
Emergent technologies and
affordances
Resources, OER and Pedagogical
Patterns
The e-learning landscape
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Evaluations
What is needed in a world of new and
proliferating e-learning practices are research approaches that are multiple and varied and that recognise their heterogeneity explicitly. (Friesen,
2009)
From Web pages and forums to complex online
interactionsAre we up for the challenge???
Examples
•Learning analytics
•Social Network Analysis
Learning Analytics
Measurement, collection, analysis and reporting of
data about learners and their contexts, for the purposes of
understanding and optimising learning and the
environments in which it occurs US Department of Education
We leave trails everywhere we go and that data is valuable (George Siemens)
Erik Duval
Contribution•Learning analytics:
•as a tool to understand learning behaviour
•to provide evidence to support design of more effective learning environments
•to make effective use of social and participatory media
Pedagogies
•Learning analytics to foster:
•Assessment and feedback
•Enquiry and sensemaking
•Discourse
Assessment & feedback•Importance of assessment and
feedback as part of the learning process
•Issues around marking and workload
•Open Mentor and Open Comment: feedback through reflection and social networking
•Coding of feedback comments and power of Bale’s categories of group interaction Whitelock
Enquiry and sensemaking•New social networking spaces like
Cloudworks to support dialogue and knowledge construction
•Cloudworks: object- rather than ego centric, collective aggregation and improvement, supporting collective intelligence and distribution cognition (Salomon, 1983)
•Disputational, cumulative and exploratory talk
Ferguson
Discourse•Cohere: structured discourse and
knowledge construction
•Discourse as an indicator of learning
•Language as social action
•Visualisation both as an analytic tool and a means of supporting sensemaking
Buckingham Shum
Putting it all together•Combining different forms of data
analytics
•VLE stats
•Library analytics
•Sitewide tracking
•Course analytics
•Powerful new analytics tools to understand data and network connections
•Making sense of Massive Open Online Courses
Hirst
Resources• LAK11 conference
https://tekri.athabascau.ca/analytics/
•Special issue of ETS http://www.learninganalytics.net/
•Definitions http://learninganalytics.net/LearningAnalyticsDefinitionsProcessesPotential.pdf
•Siemens: presentation http://www.slideshare.net/gsiemens/learning-analytics-educause
Social Network Analysis
OER communities•7 in-depth case studies
•Articulate the nature of the OER communities and the patterns of user behaviour
•Using the LOOK SNA tool
•Relationships between individuals and themes
LOOK tool
•Interviews
•Thematic analysis
•Key themes
•Filter by user and theme connections