{"id":1419,"date":"2014-10-26T19:40:38","date_gmt":"2014-10-26T17:40:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.idethloff.de\/wordpress\/?p=1419"},"modified":"2018-05-06T14:51:52","modified_gmt":"2018-05-06T12:51:52","slug":"learning-analytics-mooc-week-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.idethloff.de\/wordpress\/?p=1419","title":{"rendered":"Learning Analytics MOOC &#8211; Week 1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a title=\"Horizon Report 2014 HE\" href=\"http:\/\/cdn.nmc.org\/media\/2014-nmc-horizon-report-he-EN-SC.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Horizon Report Higher Education 2014<\/a> sees Learning Analytics in the Time-to-Adoption Horizon as &#8222;One Year or Less&#8220; (in the<a title=\"Horizon Report 2013 HE\" href=\"http:\/\/net.educause.edu\/ir\/library\/pdf\/hr2013.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> Report 2013<\/a> it was &#8222;Two to Three Years&#8220;), so the topic LA is quite an interesting one for Educators.<\/p>\n<p>However, Learning Analytics (LA) is a term which needs definition &#8211; The Society for Learning Analytics Research defines it as &#8222;the measurement, collection, analysis and reporting of data about learners and their contexts, for purposes of understanding and optimizing learning and the environments in which it occurs&#8220;.<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/idHxNSTZhNM\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The slide at 3:00 min shows that it&#8217;s a good idea to know more about LA: &#8222;Data trails reveals our sentiments, our attitudes, our social connections, our intentions, what we know, how we learn and what we might do next&#8220;.<\/p>\n<p>I really liked the link to the fulltext article &#8222;<a title=\"Lit\" href=\"http:\/\/www.columbia.edu\/~rsb2162\/BakerSiemensHandbook2013.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Educational Data Mining and Learning Analytics<\/a>&#8220; (Baker &amp; Siemens 2014) as it gives an introduction and overview of the field (graduate programs, journals, conferences, methods &amp; tools, differences between Educational Data Mining, EDM, and LA research communities). The reasons of the growing use of LA are cited as &#8222;a substantial increase in data quantity, improved data formats, advances in computing, and increased sophistication of tools available for analytics&#8220;.<\/p>\n<p>What about software (analytics \/ research tools)? I try to remember that for single functionality there is NodeXL and Gephi whereas integrated suites would be SAS, IBM BI Analytics suite and Pentaho. Open Socurce tools are R and Weka and in our course we will focus on Tableau, Gephi, RapidMiner and LightSide. I intentionally skipped doing a tool matrix because at the moment I don&#8217;t feel like being competent enough and other things were more important to me (I decided that it&#8217;s\u00a0 the kind of MOOC where I choose my learning goals).<\/p>\n<p>In week 1, I spent about 5 hours with the MOOC: at first looking at the course \/ resources \/ activities <a title=\"DALMOOC\" href=\"https:\/\/www.edx.org\/course\/utarlingtonx\/utarlingtonx-link5-10x-data-analytics-2186\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">in edX<\/a> (plus joining one of the live hangouts until midnight local time on Tuesday) and then signing in <a title=\"ProSolo DALMOOC\" href=\"http:\/\/dalmooc.prosolo.ca\/prosolo\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">ProSolo<\/a>. My first impression of ProSolo was that is wasn&#8217;t very intuitive, so in week 2 I&#8217;ll\u00a0 have a closer look at what the menus &#8222;plan, learn&#8220;, &#8222;goals, competences, activities&#8220; mean.<\/p>\n<p>I look forward to week 2 of DALMOOC and I&#8217;m curious what we will do with the Tableau software.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Horizon Report Higher Education 2014 sees Learning Analytics in the Time-to-Adoption Horizon as &#8222;One Year or Less&#8220; (in the Report 2013 it was &#8222;Two to Three Years&#8220;), so the topic LA is quite an interesting one for Educators. However, Learning Analytics (LA) is a term which needs definition &#8211; The Society for Learning Analytics &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.idethloff.de\/wordpress\/?p=1419\" class=\"more-link\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">\u201eLearning Analytics MOOC &#8211; Week 1\u201c <\/span>weiterlesen<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[16],"class_list":["post-1419","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dalmooc","tag-dalmooc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.idethloff.de\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1419","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.idethloff.de\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.idethloff.de\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.idethloff.de\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.idethloff.de\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1419"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/blog.idethloff.de\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1419\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2000,"href":"https:\/\/blog.idethloff.de\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1419\/revisions\/2000"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.idethloff.de\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1419"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.idethloff.de\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1419"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.idethloff.de\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1419"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}