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SURF Innovation programme. Learning Analytics

26 January 2012

Learning analytics is a relatively new phenomenon in education. It involves analysing the online behaviour of students within an electronic learning environment or a digital learning and working environment. Analysing the data can help higher education institutions to gain a better understanding of:

  • students’ study behaviour;
  • the quality of the educational resources used;
  • how the digital learning and working environment is in fact used;
  • the quality of test items;
  • student progress.
learning analytics, OER, learning experiences, assessment, behaviour
Events

ICALT2012 - International Conference on Advanced Learning Technologies

20 December 2011

Growing by architecting on top of our memories with design inspired learning, fostering creativity and fun, complex educational experiences and their monitoring, ubiquitous learning and flexible environments as featured topics (for an extended list see Topics of Interest).

The technical program will feature keynote addresses, workshops, tutorials, panels in addition to presentations of standard full and short papers, posters and doctoral consortium's contributions.
The novelty of the 12th edition is the introduction of two new tracks:
- an 'Industrial track'
which focus is on: a) the presentation of a technologies ready to be transferred to the industrial context or to be exploited; b) the presentation of successful case histories of industrial development and or application;
- an 'European project track'
which aim is: a) the demonstration of the impact that outcomes of past European projects had or are expected to have in the next future on the technology enhanced education ; b) the presentation of concepts, prototyping, etc. that are produced by the on-going European project and that are expected to have a relevant impact on the technology enhanced education; c) critical analysis of past and on-going experiences.

Creativity, learning experiences
Articles

Involving students in managing their own learning

21 September 2010
The primary function of universities is to equip students with the knowledge and skills they need to prosper throughout their professional career. Today, to be successful, students will need to continually enhance their knowledge and skills, in order to address immediate problems and to participate in a process of continuing vocational and professional development.

Involving students in managing their own learning in a variety of contexts, such as building their own personal learning environments (PLEs) according to their goals and interests, is one way of developing the skills and motivation that will serve as tools for lifelong learning beyond their formal education.This paper tracks the process of PLE building by students studying for their bachelor degree in Computer Science and Electronics. It looks at their learning experiences of using the Netvibes home page and discusses the advantages of using Netvibes in the context of instructional strategies and technical solution forming. In addition, it proposes and implements a model for effective communication between the university Learning Management System (LMS) and PLEs. Finally, students' opinions about the learning done in their PLE are examined through inquiry and discussed. Most students consider PLE building to be a very useful process for learning and personal development.

Personal Learning Environment, Netvibes, Web 2.0, learning experiences