scholarly journals Scientometrics as an Important Tool for the Growth of the Field of Learning Analytics

2014 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 1-4 ◽  
Author(s):  
Negin Mirriahi ◽  
Dragan Gasevic ◽  
Shane Dawson ◽  
Phillip D. Long
Keyword(s):  
Learning Process ◽  
Learning Analytics ◽  
Theory And Practice ◽  
Allocation Of Resources ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Learner Interactions ◽  
Digital Environments ◽  
Insight Into

This article introduces the special issue from SoLAR’s Learning Analytics and Knowledge conference. Learning analytics is an emerging field incorporating theory and practice from numerous disciplines to investigate how learner interactions in digital environments can provide actionable data about the learning process. As the field continues to expand there is a timely opportunity to evaluate its ongoing maturation. This evaluation could be in part informed by regular scientometric analyses from both the Journal and Conference publications. These analyses can collectively provide insight into the development of learning analytics more broadly and assist with the allocation of resources to under-represented areas for example.

scholarly journals Learning as a Machine. Crossovers Between Humans and Machines

2017 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Mireille Hildebrandt
Keyword(s):  
Learning Process ◽  
Learning Analytics ◽  
Active Participation ◽  
Theory And Practice ◽  
Academic Disciplines ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Rich Diversity ◽  
Current Thinking ◽  
Multidisciplinary Nature ◽  
The Rich

This article introduces the special issue from SoLAR’s 2016 Learning Analytics and Knowledge conference. The field of learning analytics (LA) draws heavily on theory and practice from a range of diverse academic disciplines. In so doing, LA research embodies a rich integration of methodologies and practices, assumptions and theory to bring new insights into the learning process. Reflecting this rich diversity, the theme of LAK 2016 highlights the multidisciplinary nature of the field and embraces the convergence of these disciplines to provide theoretical and practical insights to challenge current thinking in the field.  This overview introduces six articles, each of which expands on an invited talk or paper from the conference, with the added goal of offering a small taste of the rich experience that comes from  active participation in the conference. 

scholarly journals LAK16 Editorial

2017 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Carolyn Penstein Rosé ◽  
Shane Dawson ◽  
Hendrik Drachsler
Keyword(s):  
Learning Process ◽  
Learning Analytics ◽  
Active Participation ◽  
Theory And Practice ◽  
Academic Disciplines ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Rich Diversity ◽  
Current Thinking ◽  
Multidisciplinary Nature ◽  
The Rich

This article introduces the special issue from SoLAR’s 2016 Learning Analytics and Knowledge conference. The field of learning analytics (LA) draws heavily on theory and practice from a range of diverse academic disciplines. In so doing, LA research embodies a rich integration of methodologies and practices, assumptions and theory to bring new insights into the learning process. Reflecting this rich diversity, the theme of LAK 2016 highlights the multidisciplinary nature of the field and embraces the convergence of these disciplines to provide theoretical and practical insights to challenge current thinking in the field.  This overview introduces six articles, each of which expands on an invited talk or paper from the conference, with the added goal of offering a small taste of the rich experience that comes from  active participation in the conference.

Introduction to Special Issue: New Developments in Public Defense Research

2020 ◽  
Vol 31 (6) ◽  
pp. 791-799
Author(s):  
Janet Moore ◽  
Andrew L. B. Davies
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Data ◽  
Theory And Practice ◽  
Decision Makers ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
New Developments ◽  
Public Defense ◽  
Client Communication ◽  
Defense Research ◽  
Insight Into

This special issue focuses on interdisciplinary research in public defense. Seven papers represent a diverse group of scholars in an understudied field. Two overarching themes emerge. The first theme, “System Interventions: Evaluating Programs and Identifying Opportunities,” includes three studies of innovative policies and practices. Two evaluate new resource injections that support, respectively, social work-initiated holistic defense and counsel at first appearance. The third examines state sentencing schemes to identify opportunities for emphasizing defendant assets instead of deficits. The second theme, “Understanding Decision Makers,” includes four papers drawing on qualitative data regarding juvenile resentencing and reentry, defendant views of attorney–client communication, defender motivations for remaining in the profession, and manager perspectives on likely effects of caseload reductions. As a collection, these papers bridge gaps between theory and practice, offer new insight into public defense as a critical component of criminal legal systems, and identify new avenues for future research.

Templates for the Development of Business Technology Strategies

2010 ◽  
Vol 3 (3) ◽  
pp. 1-10
Author(s):  
Stephen J. Andriole
Keyword(s):  
Best Practices ◽  
Learning Process ◽  
Development Process ◽  
Theory And Practice ◽  
Strategy Development ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Graduate Level ◽  
Technology Strategies ◽  
Villanova University ◽  
Business Technology

At Villanova University, there are several courses that focus on the role that technology plays in business. At the graduate level, it is required that students develop business technology strategies for their companies. This task is placed in context of the best practices around the development of business technology strategies. Part of the learning process is for students to understand all of the components of a useful strategy. In this regard, the author has developed templates that help students organize and develop their strategies. The templates form the basis for both the “theory” and “practice” of business technology strategy, and are presented in this paper to provide a framework for understanding the strategy development process and a lens through which the strategies in this special issue can be assessed.

scholarly journals Learning Analytics Research, Theory and Practice: Widening the Discipline

2014 ◽  
Vol 1 (3) ◽  
pp. 4-6 ◽  
Author(s):  
Abelardo Pardo ◽  
Stephanie Teasley
Keyword(s):  
Big Data ◽  
Learning Analytics ◽  
Theory And Practice ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Broad Audience ◽  
Learning Research ◽  
Depth View

This article introduces the special issue presenting five papers from SoLAR’s Learning Analytics and Knowledge 2014 conference. The authors of these papers were invited to expand their original papers to provide a more in-depth view of their work and one that would reach out to a broad audience. The papers included here provide a view into the diversity of LA research presented at LAK 14 and demonstrate exciting new avenues by which the field is expanding. We believe that the papers presented here move the field ahead by contributing to a wider discourse about how we can effectively and ethically utilize “big data” to inform learning research and theory, and the resulting practices that support learning.

scholarly journals Editorial: Brain, mind and educational technology

2016 ◽  
Vol 32 (6) ◽  
Author(s):  
Jason M Lodge ◽  
Gregor Kennedy ◽  
Lori Lockyer
Keyword(s):  
Cognitive Neuroscience ◽  
Virtual Classroom ◽  
Educational Technologies ◽  
Educational Neuroscience ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Digital Environments ◽  
Foundational Research ◽  
Improving Student Learning ◽  
The Brain ◽  
Insight Into

The emergence and growth of research in cognitive neuroscience over recent decades has led to important discoveries about how the brain and mind work. These discoveries have potential implications for the use of educational technologies and provide insight into possibilities for improving student learning in digital environments. Despite the promise of the emerging field of educational neuroscience, it is difficult to translate findings from the laboratory to the physical or virtual classroom. The articles in this special issue of AJET are attempts to bridge this gap. We hope that this special issue will serve as a catalyst for further work on the translation of foundational research on the brain and mind to learning design and teaching with educational technologies.

scholarly journals Editorial: Augmenting Learning Analytics with Multimodal Sensory Data​

2016 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 213-219 ◽  
Author(s):  
Xavier Ochoa ◽  
Marcelo Worsley
Keyword(s):  
Learning Process ◽  
Learning Analytics ◽  
Technological System ◽  
Multimodal Learning ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Sensory Data ◽  
Video And Audio ◽  
Multimodal Learning Analytics

The goal of Learning Analytics is to understand and improve learning.  However, learning does not always occur through or mediated by a technological system that can collect digital traces.  To be able to study learning in non-technology centered environments, several signals, such as video and audio, should be captured, processed and analyzed to produce traces of the actions and interactions of the actors of the learning process. The use and integration of the different modalities present in those signals is known as Multimodal Learning Analytics.  This editorial presents a brief introduction to this new variation of Learning Analytics and summarizes the four representative articles included in this special issue.  The editorial closes with a small discussion about the current opportunities and challenges in multimodal learning analytics.

Pengembangan Media Pembelajaran Berbasis Ispring Suite 8 Pada Materi Perwasitan Matakuliah Teori dan Praktek Bola Voli 1 Tahun Akademik 2018/2019

2019 ◽  
Vol 25 (2) ◽  
pp. 18-26
Author(s):  
Antonius Prasetyo Hadi
Keyword(s):  
Learning Process ◽  
Success Factors ◽  
Field Trials ◽  
Theory And Practice ◽  
Research Subjects ◽  
Study Program ◽  
Expert Review ◽  
Critical Success ◽  
Media Learning ◽  
Academic Year

: The use of learning media is one of the critical success factors in higher education, therefore an educator must have innovation to use of learning media. The purpose of this research is to develop learning media based on the Inspiring Suit 8 on arbitration material courses of theoretical and practice for Volleyball 1 academic year 2018/2019 at IKIP Budi Utomo Malang. The existence of media will be a big successful support in learning process, so that students do not feel boredom because of the weaknesses of the lecturers, in which they are unable to provided good learning variation or even have difficulty in conveying or transferring knowledge. The research was descriptive qualitative design. The research subjects were students of Physical Education, Health, and Recreation Study Program who took volleyball theory and practice courses in the even semester academic year 2018/2019. The instruments used were the media expert review questionnaire, the learning expert questionnaire, and the trial analysis questionnaire. The questionnaire will be analyzed to see the feasibility of the developed media. Based on the data results review by media expert volleyball, media learning expert and field trials, it can be concluded that media developed is useful in learning process. In addition, it is used to provide independent motivation, which can be used in lesson for students.

What are the risks of Virtual Reality data? Learning Analytics, Algorithmic Bias and a Fantasy of Perfect Data

2021 ◽  
pp. 146144482110127
Author(s):  
Marcus Carter ◽  
Ben Egliston
Keyword(s):  
Virtual Reality ◽  
Learning Process ◽  
Learning Analytics ◽  
Soft Skills ◽  
Education Technology ◽  
Skills Training ◽  
Emerging Technology ◽  
Critical Issues ◽  
Vr Training ◽  
Algorithmic Bias

Virtual reality (VR) is an emerging technology with the potential to extract significantly more data about learners and the learning process. In this article, we present an analysis of how VR education technology companies frame, use and analyse this data. We found both an expansion and acceleration of what data are being collected about learners and how these data are being mobilised in potentially discriminatory and problematic ways. Beyond providing evidence for how VR represents an intensification of the datafication of education, we discuss three interrelated critical issues that are specific to VR: the fantasy that VR data is ‘perfect’, the datafication of soft-skills training, and the commercialisation and commodification of VR data. In the context of the issues identified, we caution the unregulated and uncritical application of learning analytics to the data that are collected from VR training.

scholarly journals TOOLS FOR RECORDING PROTOTYPING ACTIVITIES AND QUANTIFYING CORRESPONDING DOCUMENTATION IN THE EARLY STAGES OF PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT

2021 ◽  
Vol 1 ◽  
pp. 3159-3168
Author(s):  
Sohail Ahmed Soomro ◽  
Yazan A M Barhoush ◽  
Zhengya Gong ◽  
Panos Kostakos ◽  
Georgi V. Georgiev
Keyword(s):  
Product Development ◽  
Learning Process ◽  
Design Education ◽  
Development Process ◽  
Digital Fabrication ◽  
Prototype Development ◽  
Early Stages ◽  
Creative Solutions ◽  
Insight Into

AbstractPrototyping is an essential activity in the early stages of product development. This activity can provide insight into the learning process that takes place during the implementation of an idea. It can also help to improve the design of a product. This information and the process are useful in design education as they can be used to enhance students' ability to prototype their ideas and develop creative solutions. To observe the activity of prototype development, we conducted a study on students participating in a 7-week course: Principles of Digital Fabrication. During the course, eight teams made prototypes and shared their weekly developments via internet blog posts. The posts contained prototype pictures, descriptions of their ideas, and reflections on activities. The blog documentation of the prototypes developed by the students was done without the researchers' intervention, providing essential data or research. Based on a review of other methods of capturing the prototype development process, we compare existing documentation tools with the method used in the case study and outline the practices and tools related to the effective documentation of prototyping activity.

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