Where
Learning Analytics Meets Learning Design
29 April 2011
1/2 day workshop @ the Second International
Conference on Learning Analytics and Knowledge (LAK12)
Facilitators:
Lori Lockyer & Shane Dawson
Objectives
The wealth of data available
through student management systems and eLearning systems has the
potential to provide faculty with important, just-in-time
information that may allow them to positively intervene with
struggling students and/or enhance the learning experience during
the delivery of a course. This information might also
facilitate post-delivery review and reflection for faculty who
wish to revise course design and content. But to be
effective, this data needs to be appropriate to the context or
pedagogical intent of the course – this is where learning
analytics meets learning design.
In this workshop, participants
will
- Further develop their
understanding of learning design and learning analytics
- Explore how learning
analytics that can support faculty during course delivery and
for course review
- Identify the types of
learning analytics that can be useful for different learning
designs
Overview of
activities
This workshop will involve:
- brief overview
presentations about learning design and learning analytics
- participant brainstorm
session about what learning analytics might support faculty
during (1) course delivery and/or (2) course review
- participant groups (2 to 3
participants each) working with specific learning designs to
identify relevant learning analytics
Intended
audience
- Researchers
- Faculty members
from all disciplines
-
Instructional/learning designers
- Training and
development professionals
- Course management
system developers and leaders
Relevant
references and resources for this workshop include:
- "Seeing" networks:
visualising and evaluating student learning networks project
and related resources
http://research.uow.edu.au/learningnetworks/seeing/about/index.html
- Learning Designs project
products http://www.learningdesigns.uow.edu.au/
- Lockyer, L., Bennett, S.,
Agostinho, S., & Harper, B. (Eds) (2009). Handbook
of Research in Learning Designs and Learning Objects. Hershey,
New York: IGI Global.
About the
facilitators
Professor Lori Lockyer teaches
and researchers in educational technology in the Faculty of
Education at the University of Wollongong in Australia.
Lori’s research and development work has focused on how online
technology can support teaching and learning particularly to
foster collaborative learning. Over the past decade
Lori has been investigating how Learning Designs can support
university faculty to effectively integrate technology into their
teaching.
e: llockyer@uow.edu.au
w: www.uow.edu.au/~llockyer/profile.html
Dr Shane Dawson is the Director
of Arts Instructional Support and Information Technology at the
University of British Columbia. His research centres on the
application of quantitative data derived from student online
activity to inform teaching and learning practice. Shane's
research demonstrates the use of student online interaction and
network data to provide lead indicators of learning support, sense
of community, course satisfaction, learning dispositions and
creative capacity.
e: shane.dawson@ubc.ca
Shane and Lori have been working
with collaborators to understand how social network analysis
supports effective teaching in higher education and are extending
this work to investigate the integration of learning analytics
with learning design.