Learning analytics are increasingly relevant, and prominent, in education. Startups and established software vendors are targeting learning analytics in their product offerings for the education and training and development sector. Many of the companies that serve the higher education market– including Sungard, Blackboard, and Pearson – are already heavily committed to analytics. Analytics is quickly becoming a term that gets slapped onto any existing product (remember social media from a few years ago? In education, everything is becoming “data” and “analytics”). MORE >>

Analytics eLearning Events Innovation Mobile News Research TrendsBeen a busy couple of months of elearning road-trips. From EDUCAUSE to Online EDUCA, from WCET to WICHE, from DevLearn to AECT (with a little bit of virtual Sloan-C tossed in for good measure). Literally thousands of plenaries, presentations, and. MORE >>

Educational datamining and learning analytics are getting substantial attention in education. With learning analytics in particular, the term has come to mean anything and everything that involves data in learning. It reviews some analytics trends broadly, implications for education, a research project on developing an open learning analytics platform, and finally, what analytics have to do with connectivism. Learning Analytics: Higher Education The term needs to be broken down so it can be meaningfully used. MORE >>

Liveblogging from mLearn12: learning analytics in mobile and pervasive learning environments Naif Aljohani Clean nice suit, glasses and linking to other researchers to anchor it into existing research and adding his ideas. An important feature of the literature review of LA is that LA has not provided a significant benefit in terms of learner mobility to date since not much research has been carried out to determine the importance of LA in facilitating or enhancing the learning experience of mobile learners. A big issue with learner analytics is privacy of the data. MORE >>

Under the lead of the wonderfully driven Apostolos Koutropoulos , Sean Abajian and Michael Sean Gallagher , all of us in the MobiMOOC research team (other members are Nilgün Keskin , Rebecca Hogue and Osvaldo Rodriguez and myself) got a chance to collaboratively write a paper on "emotive vocabulary in MOOCs: context and participation retention". Here is the abstract: Massive Online Open Courses (MOOCs) have been growing in popularity with educational researchers, instructors, and learners in online environments. learning analytics research eden paper mooc eurodl mobimooc MORE >>