“consider each of your areas of concern in turn and note whether learning analytics could potentially address this issue and, if so, how this might be done” In this activity we are asked to analyse the PISA, OECD (2012) report comparing key metrics of two countries (including your own) I have chosen to compare the UK and Italy in the 2012 PISA results. In the reported year students in the UK felt positive about school compared to Italy where one…
Consider the reasons for the use of learning analytics that are given in these papers, and reflect on them in relation to the recommendations you and others made in Activity 3 and the problems that you thought learning analytics might be able to address. Norris et al. (2009) describes new ways of combining data using Web 2.0. Although this terminology is now outdated, the concept of pulling many data sources together through the web has come to pass. Campbell et.al…
Identify some of the educational challenges in the environment that you are considering. They may include those identified earlier. Formulate two or three recommendations that set out how data gathered in this environment could be used better to support learners or educators. Educational Challenges Recording engagement. One of the main challenges facing our staff in the current circumstances is to record student engagement. As noted in Kirkpatrick (2020), our metrics to fulfil student funding requirements were changed from attendance to…
Reflect on your current teaching environment or on a teaching environment that you know well. How are student data used in this case? Record the data use under four headings: Used to benefit learner(s) These are a few examples from my own context: Students have access to their own profiles so they can check if we hold the correct information about them and report any errors. Student’s mobile phone numbers are used to contact them with important announcements such as…