The University of Edinburgh shares a number of its Learning and Teaching policies and associated guidance under Creative Commons licence to enable them to be reused by other institutions.
In 1687, Sir Isaac Newton published his seminal article “Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica” in which he described the motion of celestial bodies (Newton, 1987).
The 2019 Association for Learning Technology awards took place on Wednesday 4th September with the SHEILA project receiving the ALT 2019 research project award.
The policy and procedures setting out how the University will manage issues such as data governance, consent and security when developing and operating learning analytics systems.
Universities and colleges are having to adapt their policies and processes to meet the requirements of the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).
The SHEILA project team ran a workshop on “Developing an evidence-based institutional learning analytics policy” at the 13th European Conference on Technology Enhanced Learning on 3 September at the University of Leeds.
Contemporary education policy and practice is increasingly influenced by developments in data analytics. The big data analytics story of the year so far concerns the alleged 'psychographic' profiling techniques of data analytics firm Cambridge Analytica and its use of the personal data of millions of Facebook users.
The field learning analytics is established with the promise for the education sector to embrace the use of data for decision making. There are many examples of successful use of learning analytics to enhance student experience, increase learning outcomes, and optimize learning environments.
Are great teaching and assessment fundamentally at odds? One might think so because, unfortunately, the words “test” and “assessment” are often used interchangeably...
public draft articulating eight principles that all higher education institutions should consider when implementing technology for the collection and use of learning data
Learning Analytics (LA) is currently a very active topic in education, but its implementation is beset with potential pitfalls for an organisation wishing to develop extensive use of it.