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==Introduction==

We're starting some work around Learning Analytics for Webmaker and we'd like as many people to be part of it. Our [http://2014.mozillafestival.org MozFest] session will help set the direction we go in - see below!

==Learning Analytics==
<blockquote>Learning analytics is the measurement, collection, analysis and reporting of data about learners and their contexts, for purposes of understanding and optimising learning and the environments in which it occurs. ([https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Learning_analytics Wikipedia])</blockquote>

==MozFest Session: Learning Analytics for good in the age of Big Data==

* MozFest Sessions are currently being scheduled - Exact time of this session TBC.

===What will your session or activity allow people to make, learn or do?===

* '''Make:''' connections between one another and approaches to learning analytics
* '''Learn:''' about the challenges and opportunities in this space, and build a shared list of questions - as well as tentative answers
* '''Do:''' agree a way to continue this conversation into the future, and potentially opt-in to a working group

===How do you see that working?===

We're running a 1h session in which we will:

# Introduce ourselves
# Icebreaker activity - measuring our current understanding of 'learning analytics'
# Break into (up to) three groups depending on participant interest
## Learning Analytics for Web Literacy Map 
## Contribution Data (Wikimedia as case study)
## Owning your own learning analytics data
# Crowdsource challenges to open learning analytics (lots of post-it notes)
# Feed back to main group
# Decide on method of communication going forwards
# Pledges: what participants will (optionally) have done by a certain time
# Measure new understanding of 'learning analytics'. Demonstrate impact.

===How will you deal with varying numbers of participants in your session?===

We will have at least three facilitators, which gives us some flexibility should we have a large number of participants. If we have a smaller number, then we will seek to dive deeper into a few core solutions. Either way, we will amplify the session through social media and provide a clear call to action via the digital artifacts we create.

===What do you see as outcomes after the festival?===

The aim of this session is to build a constituency of people interested in open learning analytics. We will decide in the session the best means of keeping in touch, but the aim is to create a working group to further explore the issues raised in the session.

===Facilitators===

* Adam Lofting – [https://twitter.com/adamlofting @adamlofting]
* Andrew Sliwinski - [https://twitter.com/thisandagain @thisandagain]
* Doug Belshaw – [https://twitter.com/dajbelshaw @dajbelshaw]
* Simon Knight – [https://twitter.com/sjgknight @sjgknight]

===Theme===

Open Science and the Web