openness and learning analytics - Universidad del Sagrado Corazón

Transforming education: openness and
learning
analytics
George Siemens
October 15, 2010
Presented to:
Universidad del Sagrado Corazón
The inadequacy of traditional
knowledge processes (institutions?)
Rapid processes of iteration, invention
Complexity & connectivity (Morin)
more is different What would a university
ook like if created today?
Periods of innovation demand different
tactics than those needed in periods o
stability
Need idea
collision
Openness
Diversity
Spaces for collision to
Late February, 2003
Global, networked research
sensemaking, & knowledge
growth
April 16, 2003
First concept:
Innovation requires
openness
But what does
openness mean?
Product?
Process?
Open scholarship
Open teaching &
learning
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Second concept:
Openness produces
more of itself
Criticality of Creation
MOOC
Spaces of multi-voiced/perspective interaction
Coherence of knowledge formed (connected?)
through participation
Third concept:
Openness & innovation
require creation and
participation
Information
fragmentation
Knowledge coherence
Need time
Incubation
Idea collision
Randomness
Sensemaking
Through
1. Social and 2. Technological systems
Fourth concept:
Personal knowledge
must be shared and
interacted with
i.e. explicitation
and…
Once it s data, it s
analyzable
Fifth Lesson:
Computers should do
what they do best.
So should people.
Structure & innovation
Hard & soft technologies and methods
The need to know
ourselves
We aren't well acquainted with our thoughts (or
ourselves)
What does this produce?
Failed innovations, overlooked connections States of connectedness produce
different levels of understanding
What and how something is connected
determines what is possible
i.e. What is understood
Capacity, potential
Sixth concept:
Data trails reveal
ourselves (intentions)
The adjacent possible
Analytics and revelation
of serendipitous
connections
Living the connected life
Blending digital world with physical
Connection serendipity provided through socia
and technological systems
e.g. Feltron, Google analytics, social media
monitoring
Seventh concept:
Learning analytics
transform teacher and
learner roles (and
education)
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