Recent and Desired Future Trends in Learning Analytics ResearchPanel session, John Doove - SURF, 11-04-2013

We are..

• Not a Research Funder

• But a collaborative organisation for innovation through ICT to improve the quality of higher education and research

= bring people and expertise together in programs (projects, communities, events etc.)

• And learning analytics is a topic where we think that has value…

Why?

Research

PracticePolicy

SURF

SURF

SURF

PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT

EXPERIMENT, DEVELOP AND ENCOURAGE USE

PROVIDE TECHNICALPRECONDITIONS

EXPLORE AND EVALUATE

FACILITATE AND PARTICIPATEIN NETWORKS

BUILD KNOWLEDGE ANDSHARE INFORMATION

http://www.slideshare.net/ChristienBok/surf-educause-2011

http://youtu.be/9fbhR6KW53Q

 

 

Prof. Dr. Erik Duval Dr. Hendrik DrachslerProf. Dr. Wil van der Aalst

Prof. dr. Ton de JongProf. Dr. Paul Kirschner

Expert group

Special Interest Group

https://www.surfspace.nl/learninganalytics

Research/projects that would make us happy

• Research driven by a question from educational practice

• Ongoing exchange between practical experience/validation and research focus

• A bit stating the obvious… but learning analytics is a multidisciplinary topic. Strong project proposals involve those multiple disciplines.

• Stakeholder involvement (service providers, users) throughout the process

Research/projects that would make us happy (2)

• Impact analysis!! helps big time in reporting back to policy and decision makers about the added value of learning analytics

• Research that is as transferrable, reproducible and broadly applicable as possible

• Research that makes use of the expertise from related educational fields (digital assessment, adaptive learning environments, open educational resources/MOOC’s etc.). Don’t put learning analytics on an island..

John Doovedoove@surf.nlwww.surf.nl