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Designing writing analytics to align with classroom practices and needs
30 January 2020, 12:30 pm–1:30 pm
How do educators make use of data to support their student’s learning, and where does learning analytics fit into that?
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Open to
- All
Availability
- Yes
Organiser
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Seray Ibrahim
Location
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Large seminar roomUCL Knowledge Lab23-29 Emerald StreetLondonWC1N 3QS
Educators are increasingly asked to work with data and technologies such as learning analytics to support and provide evidence of student learning. However, what learning analytics developers should design for, and how educators will implement analytics, is unclear.
Learning analytics risks the same levels of low uptake and implementation as many other educational technologies if they do not align with educator practice and needs. How then do we tackle this gap, to support and develop technologies that are implemented in practice, for impact on learning?
At the University of Technology Sydney, Dr Simon Knight takes a participatory design-based approach to designing and implementing learning analytics in practice, and understanding their impact. In his research, he has identified existing practices with which learning analytics may be aligned to augment practice.
This talk introduces some of these projects, particularly drawing on work in developing analytics to support student writing (writing analytics), giving examples of how analytics were aligned with existing pedagogic practices to support learning. Through this augmentation, supported by design-based approaches, Dr Knight argues that research and practice can be developed in tandem.
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About the Speaker
Dr Simon Knight
Senior Lecturer at University of Technology Sydney in the Faculty of Trans-disciplinary Innovation
Simon Knight’s research investigates how people find and evaluate evidence, particularly in the context of learning and educator practices. Dr Knight received his Bachelor’s degree in Philosophy and Psychology from the University of Leeds before completing a teacher education program and Philosophy of Education MA at the UCL Institute of Education (IOE). Following teaching high school social sciences, Dr Knight completed an MPhil in Educational Research Methods at Cambridge, and PhD in Learning Analytics at the UK Open University.