About this Course
This course will explore how digital cultures and learning cultures connect, and what this means for the ways in which we conduct education online. The course is not about how to ‘do’ e-learning; rather, it is an invitation to view online educational practices through a particular lens – that of popular and digital culture.
This week, we look at current trends of technology development and technical interventions and innovations in teaching and learning and their implications for education.
This is the week 2 topic from the Learning Analytics and Knowledge: LAK12 MOOC. It provides a good outline of the emerging area, and acknowledges the different areas and approaches that have influenced it. Click here to view the original link.
This article from Educause Review provides a more in-depth account of learning analytics, co-authored by one of the prominent figures in the field George Siemens.
A DiCE (Digital Cultures in Education) seminar by Dr Ben Williamson. Dr Williams lectures about the broader trends of algorithmic culture in education, of which big data and learning analytics are a part.
A theoretical essay about the issues of using data to represent learning, drawing on the example of abstract art. Click here to open the original link.
Algorithmic culture. “Culture now has two audiences: people and machines”: A conversation with Ted Striphas