In this lecture series Bart Rienties (Professor of Learning Analytics, head of Academic Professional Development) will discuss how from the safety of your home you could use existing trace data to explore interactions between people (e.g., Twitter data, engagement data in a virtual learning environment, public data sets), and what the affordances and limitations of these trace data might be.
Literacy cannot be seen as only a linguistic accomplishment anymore and there is no longer the close association between print and learning Multimodality can be seen as an eclectic approach modal affordances: what is possible to express easily. The metalanguage of multimodalities must be taught and understood, as choice of mode can affect pedagogic design and interpretation: the teacher's choice of mode shapes the knowledge or even interpretation. New possibilities.
Lessons learnt in a course on social software using social software; concentrating on acquiring proficiency, learning critically about affordances, and using the software promote social change.
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