Webmaker/LearningAnalytics
Introduction
We're starting some work around Learning Analytics for Webmaker and we'd like as many people to be part of it. Our MozFest session will help set the direction we go in - see below!
Learning Analytics for good in the age of Big Data
What will your session or activity allow people to make, learn or do?
- Make: connections between one another and approaches to learning metrics
- 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 propose a 1h 30m session in which we will:
- Introduce ourselves and allow introduce themselves
- Icebreaker activity - including measuring current understanding of 'learning analytics'
- Short overview of work to date and the landscape
- Crowdsource challenges to open learning analytics
- Break into small groups to look for potential solutions
- Feed back to main group
- Decide as a group on ways to approach implementing solutions
- 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 two 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 artefacts 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 – @adamlofting
- Doug Belshaw – @dajbelshaw
- Simon Knight – @sjgknight
Organization
Mozilla Foundation
Theme
Open Science and the Web