The use of big data and analytics in education continues to grow. A vast apparatus of measurement is being developed to underpin national education systems, institutions and the actions of the individuals who occupy them. […] The presence of digital data and software in education is being amplified through massive financial and political investment in…
College and university libraries can provide important contributions to institutional efforts to use learning analytics to improve student learning and success.
In this learning analytics blog post, Andrew Downes dives into the Data Evaluation complexity—including 16 analysis types that fall under this complexity.
(This is the second part of a report of the #LAK19 conference. See Part 1 here.) It was the only beginning of many fun conversations when the Main Conference kicked off on Wednesday! Our conference and program chairs delivered an exciting welcome message. LAK is becoming larger, Largest LAK ever & 60% attendees are 1st timers! - shared by conference chair @shoha99 #LAK19 pic.twitter.com/k7C02NGWol — Bodong Chen (@bod0ng) March 6, 2019
I just came back from the 2019 Learning Analytics and Knowledge (LAK) conference hosted by Arizona State University. This conference, surely one of my favorites, is inching to its 10th anniversary next year. I still remember when I was in the 2nd year of my PhD in 2010, Chris Teplovs told me about an exciting, upcoming gathering of 60~ people in Banff, Canada to discuss a thing called “learning analytics.
Probabilistic soft logic (PSL) is a machine learning framework for developing probabilistic models. PSL models are easy and fast, you can define them using a straightforward logical syntax and solve them with fast convex optimization.
According to technology experts that would have increased from 130 to 40000 exabytes ten and a half years before 2020. Some research writers have estimated that…
By Marjaana Jokinen on February 20, 2019: This is the story of my learning journey teaching myself how to use xAPI. I share resources and xAPI examples that helped me get started.
N. Rzepka, K. Simbeck, H. Müller, and N. Pinkwart. Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Computer Supported Education, SCITEPRESS - Science and Technology Publications, (2022)