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Map your own PLN, in whatever format you find easiest to work with. For further guidance or to see some examples of other people’s PLNs, take a look at this ‘Mapping Your PLN’ guide. This is a small beginning mapping my PLN. I have entered work colleagues as well as a few external connections including the broader H880 Community and my tutor. I have included the SMUG group and CDN who influence my work. This could be developed to be…
Visit your study group and work together to create a master list of possible ways in which the listed data types could be useful for a tutor, module author or the OU as an institution. Working on this task in a small group will allow you to discuss your ideas and explore group members’ different perspectives before sharing your thoughts with the wider H880 community. Age – If students are particularly young, perhaps immediately post undergraduate study, they are less…
Compose a second email to the same teacher, which succinctly summarises an example of the use of an e-portfolio and draws attention to the implications of this example for her context. I don’t know about succinct but here is my follow up email Dear lecturer, This email provides further details about the use of eportfolios in assessment. You state that your students are required to work collaboratively but it is likely that they will be working on individual eportfolios. As…
In this weeks activities we have considered how the role of the mentor changes in Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) when compared with roles we traditionally associate with teaching. In this unscientific juxtaposition I have summarised how I perceive the main differences. As you can see as the participant count increases the role of the educator changes. When courses become massive it is not possible to maintain some of the traditional tasks of educators such as marking or one to…
As part of my study of the OU Module H880: Technology Enhanced Learning, Foundations and Futures I have completed the FutureLearn MOOC ‘The Online Educator’. This course covered a range of important topics when considering online delivery. There were valuable lessons related to online identities and privacy, navigating hype in learning technologies, accessibility and inclusion, evaluating research and digital inclusion. I scored 72% in the final test.
ATTENDEES We are currently working with a third party company who implement data science solutions so it would be helpful for them to lead one of the sessions to give ideas on the types of visualisation can be achieved with the application of analytics. It is likely that they will be providing the visualisation platform but will most likely need to be supplied with the data to populate this through a proxy data source (IT / IS involvement is mentioned…
* Goals and visions are not the same thing, and some of these goals are too mundane or too succinct to be inspiring. In a blog post, or in your learning journal, combine or develop some of these goals to construct a vision of what learning analytics could be at your institution or at one you know well. Aim for a vision statement that is no longer than two sentences. “Our vision is to maximise the potential of our College…
I calculate it would take someone over an hour to read all of the OU privacy policy and related documents (around 2,000 words). In your learning journal, note the issues reported in the paper that were raised by students and that you consider to be the most important. Several issues are raised by the answers given to the research questions: The most important concern in my opinion is : No informed consent opt out is available. “Do you think the…
Read the OU’s policy on the ethical use of student data for learning analytics. Write a one-page summary of the key points in the policy. The Open University (OU) (2014) Policy Document outlines the reasoning for the universities use of analytics. Generally this is focussed on proactive interventions to assist students with their studies. The university has produced a policy statement with 8 principles stating how the university aims to ethically use the data gathered, provide boundaries and detail the…
In your learning journal, take the problems and barriers you identified and listed in the previous two activities and map them to the steps of the ROMA framework. You could do this in the form of a list, or you could use presentation software, such as PowerPoint or Keynote, to produce visualisations of the links between steps and issues. Having read the relevant section of the Ferguson et al. (2015) paper I have listed the barriers identified in the previous…