Over the summer holidays, EU's new FP7 priorities for 2013 funding were communicated. Challenge 8. is related to learning, namely called "
ICT for Creativity and Learning"
...Europe must also support national efforts to help students to learn
better, teachers to teach better, and school systems to become more
effective. This goal can be greatly advanced by learning systems that
can adapt to effective use in a wide variety of diverse contexts.
Under 8.2 (technology enhanced learning), they also mention Learning Analytics:
b) Learning analytics, educational data
mining: tools and processes for collecting, storing, exploring and
reasoning on large-scale educational data to better understand learners'
knowledge, assess their progress and evaluate environments in which
they learn. These tools and processes should aim at improving learning
and teaching (including 21st century skills) for students and
instructors.
Learning analytics has now become such a hot topic. So, like all the others, I'm also studying the topic. Here is a link to
my recent paper on learning analytics. I presented it this summer at “
Open and Social Technologies for Networked Learning” in Tallinn.
