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I had an absolutely fascinating collaboration with some group dynamics colleagues, using Compendium, our most mature knowledge cartography tool, to map the dynamics they were seeing as therapists. Delighted to say that an article we wrote up has now come out in one of the leading journals in the field, which is starting to attract [...]

Vancouver has just hosted the 4-day 2nd International Conference on Learning Analytics & Knowledge, which sold out after doubling in size from last year. With sponsorship from the Gates Foundation, EDUCAUSE, and leading VLE vendors, this testifies to the huge interest and energy around the implications of the Big Data/Analytics/Predictive Modelling wave — for when [...]

Here in Vancouver, everyone’s gathered for the kickoff tomorrow for LAK 2012! I’ll be chairing a panel to explore what makes the Learning Analytics & Knowledge conference and community distinctive and complementary to the longer established Educational Data Mining community. For unfathomable ‘technical reasons’ the final set of position statements from our panellists didn’t make [...]

Learning Analytics for Learning Power Knowledge Media Institute, The Open University, Milton Keynes, UK 3 year fully-funded PhD (Oct. 2012-Sept.2015), Stipend: £40,770 (£13,590/year) Supervisors: Simon Buckingham Shum & Rebecca Ferguson Full details SocialLearnResearch blog…

Presented this morning to delegates visiting from Cambridge 2012: Innovation and Impact – Openly Collaborating to Enhance Education which includes links on the slides to the many movies I didn’t get time to show [HiRes PDF]. Developing Innovative Technologies @open.edu   View more presentations from Simon Buckingham Shum

EDUCAUSE just completed two afternoons of online presentations and discussions in their  Learning Analytics Online Spring Focus Session. In my talk [abstract+resources] I continued to explore the potential dream/nightmare theme that I’ve been running for the last few months [Ascilite2011; Networked Learning Hotseat 2012], but updated to explore in more detail some of the legitimate [...]

A great success story for KMi technology transfer: our Compendium knowledge mapping tool was customized by the OU’s Learning & Teaching Solutions team for a groundbreaking OU course U101 “Design thinking: creativity for the 21st century”. I met with U101′s chair Peter Lloyd several years ago when the course was in conception, and we discussed [...]

One of the things that fascinates me is Argument Mapping. So, I had a fascinating time with Paul Piwek this morning, as he showed me the fruits of his ArguEd project, an OU strategic project aiming to provide “evidence-based improvement of VLE-based formative assessment of students’ argument analysis and evaluation skills.” “Context: The ability to [...]

Here are the slides from the briefing I gave on Tuesday as part of the Learning Analytics MOOC, the open course we’re running in the build-up to LAK12 next month in Vancouver… This summarises the SoLAR White Paper Open Learning Analytics [pdf] of which I was one of the contributing authors. Webinar replay (launches the [...]

Just posted the slides on the SocialLearn blog, from today’s joint OpenU/UNED Madrid webinar, organised as part of the Open Educational Innovation & Incubation project, as a SCORE Workshop on New Models for Education and Training Built on Open Educational Resources