Learning Analytics quantifying deeper learning dispositions?
Simon Buckingham Shum Knowledge Media Institute The Open University UK http://simon.buckinghamshum.net http://linkedin.com/in/simon
@sbskmi #LearningAnalytics
Big Data in Education NSF Workshop, George Mason University, March 2014
Learning Technology
KMi, Open U AI & Argumentation
Learning Dispositions Human-Centred
Informatics
Learning Analytics
Semantic Scientific Publishing
Dialogue / Issue / Argument Mapping
Discourse-Centric Learning Analytics
analytics that look beneath the surface, and quantify linguistic proxies for ‘deeper learning’
Beyond number / size / frequency of posts; ‘hottest thread’
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Monitoring the health of learning ecosystems
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Monitoring the health of learning ecosystems
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helps/forces us to make our theories of learning explicit — and test them
Why do dispositions matter?
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“Knowledge of methods alone will not suffice: there must be the desire, the will, to employ them. This desire is an affair of personal disposition.”
John Dewey
Dewey, J. How We Think: A Restatement of the Relation of Reflective Thinking to the Educative Process. Heath and Co, Boston, 1933
“We’re looking at the profiles of what it means to be effective in the 21st century. […] Resilience will be the defining concept. When challenged and bent, you learn and bounce back stronger.”
John Seely Brown
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US Dept. of Educ. http://reimaginingeducation.org conference (May 28, 2013) Dispositions clip: http://www.c-spanvideo.org/clip/4457327 Whole talk: http://www.c-spanvideo.org/program/SecD
Why do dispositions matter?
“We’re looking at the profiles of what it means to be effective in the 21st century. […] Resilience will be the defining concept. When challenged and bent, you learn and bounce back stronger.”
“Dispositions are now at least as important as Knowledge and Skills. …They cannot be taught. They can only be cultivated.”
John Seely Brown
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US Dept. of Educ. http://reimaginingeducation.org conference (May 28, 2013) Dispositions clip: http://www.c-spanvideo.org/clip/4457327 Whole talk: http://www.c-spanvideo.org/program/SecD
Why do dispositions matter?
Dispositional Learning Analytics Workshop
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http://learningemergence.net/events/lasi-dla-wkshp http://learningemergence.net/2014/03/01/ assessing-learning-dispositions-academic-mindsets
Quantifying learning dispositions agency; identity; motivation; responsibility
Buckingham Shum, S. and Deakin Crick, R. (2012). Learning Dispositions and Transferable Competencies: Pedagogy, Modelling and Learning Analytics. Proc. 2nd Int. Conf. Learning Analytics & Knowledge. (29 Apr-2 May, Vancouver). Eprint: http://oro.open.ac.uk/32823
http://learningemergence.net/2012/04/30/learning-powered-learning-analytics
Quantifying teaching dispositions
http://learningemergence.net/events/lasi-dla-wkshp Ruth Deakin Crick, Chris Goldspink & Margot Foster (2013). Telling Identities: Learning as Script or Design? Learning Emergence Discussion Paper (June, 2013). http://learningemergence.net/library/reports
Self-report through reflective blogging 9-10 yr old EnquiryBloggers • Bushfield School, Wolverton, UK
EnquiryBlogger Wordpress Multisite plugins http://learningemergence.net/tools/enquiryblogger
2020: personal data cloud generates my dispositional profile for reflection >>> help me take responsibility for my own learning
Shaofu Huang: Prototyping Learning Power Modelling in SocialLearn http://www.open.ac.uk/blogs/SocialLearnResearch/2012/06/20/social-learning-analytics-symposium Simon Knight: http://people.kmi.open.ac.uk/knight/2014/02/knowledge-in-search
Social network patterns, teamwork effectiveness and
initiation of relationships
Questioning, arguing and search behaviours reveal intrinsic curiosity
and epistemic commitments
Tagging/sharing/blogging/social
patterns reveal how you see
connections between ideas
Perseverance, grit, tenacity; overcoming
panic/stress when challenged — through
behavioural and somatic traces