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…

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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…

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“big data” and Youtube. I am broadly positive about the use of my data by Youtube. I would much rather be shown suggestions for videos I may be interested in. I often find new channels to subscribe to through the use of the home screen when logged into Youtube. This is where Youtube get the chance to show me what they think I will be interested in. I do create some Youtube content myself, however I find that I do…

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In analysing the Wikipedia page (2020a) relating to learning analytics it is clear that the core definition on Wikipedia (2020b), published by Siemens (2010) has not changed in the past ten years: “Learning analytics is the measurement, collection, analysis and reporting of data about learners and their contexts, for purposes of understanding and optimising learning and the environments in which it occurs” This definition has remained constant, however, it has been expanded upon such as in the Wikipedia (2020c) revision…

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The Big List of OERs published by University of Pittsburgh is published here: https://pitt.libguides.com/openeducation/biglist This could prove to be a valuable resource in future course building. It contains links to many large repositories and MOOC providers.

Here is my response to activity 24. I would like to have placed a creative commons license on the video. Unfortunately, I have used licensed resources from Envato Elements which do not allow remixing or reuse. How ironic.

Create a Visitors and Residents map for yourself, considering the technologies you use (e.g. email, VLE, blog, Facebook, Skype, Google, etc.), using the personal/institutional axis as well as the visitors/resident one. There is not a definitive list of technologies, you should include any technologies you use regularly (for example, if you are a keen user of Flickr, add that). You can use a tool such as Word, or Powerpoint to create the grid, or a drawing package if you have…

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Write a short blog post suggesting one additional technology that is important for open education, either from the role of a learner or a provider. The technology can be one that has been significant, or one that you feel is going to become increasingly relevant. Internet Streaming for Open Education One additional technology I think will become increasingly important for open education is Internet streaming. I realise that the ability to and technology for streaming live on the internet is…

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1. Were you convinced by rhizomatic learning as an approach? I found rhizomatic learning an interesting concept. The growth of Bamboo is a useful visual metaphor for the learning experience. This approach seems to be designed more to prepare learners for dealing with uncertainty than would be the case with rote instruction. There is an emphasis on learners deciding/discovering what they need to know then researching this within a community. As Cormier (2012) alludes to when describing his early work…

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Take the description of the short course on digital skills that you developed in Week 8 and recast it, so that it adopts a highly connectivist approach. Staff Digital Induction In this course the participants receive an introduction to computing services in our context. The cohort will share their corporate blogs (if they wish to do so) where they will post their contributions.  Some blogs posted by experienced members of staff will be linked in week 2. Week Topic Activities…

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