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This is just a short blog post to capture some thoughts on the ethical principles of learning analytics as set out in official documentation provided by The Open University. I have attended various briefings at the OU around this subject, mainly because there is a lot of complexity here with regard to the ethical significance …
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This morning I’m attending a talk given by Sharon Slade about the ethical dimensions of learning analytics (LA), part of a larger workshop devoted to LA at The Open University’s library on the Walton Hall campus. I was a bit late from a previous meeting but Sharon’s slides are pretty clear so I’m just going to …
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Slides for my presentation tomorrow at the 8th Grace EDEN workshop.
Today I’m in the research laboratories in the Jennie Lee Building at The Institute of Educational Technology (aka work) for the ELESIG Guerrilla Research Event. Martin Weller began the session with an outline of the kind of work that goes into preparing unsuccessful research proposals. Using figures from the UK research councils he estimates that …
Here at eLearning 2014 Fred Lokken of Truckee Meadows Community College presented the results of the most recent ITC survey into distance education. This is the 10th annual edition of the survey, which is the the primary college-focused distance education survey. The results are sent to all college presidents as well as to key media outlets. …
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I’ve spent the last couple of days here in Nottingham at OER13, where I presented yesterday on the OERRH project and about some of the issues surrounding research synthesis. Here are my slides: The Ecology of Sharing: Synthesizing OER Research from Robert Farrow In addition to presenting and generally taking part I’ve been liveblogging some …
We currently have the following books available for review at the Journal of Interactive Media in Technology. Please forward these details to anyone who might be interested in being a reviewer for us. If you’d like to nominate yourself as a reviewer, please email rob.farrow [at] open.ac.uk or tweet philosopher1978. Dede, Chris and Richards, John …
Tess Pajaron sent me the following infographic which attempts to substantiate the claim that Apple is winning the battle for tech presence in the classroom and for use by educators. You can see the full page at http://newsroom.opencolleges.edu.au/features/the-teachers-apple/.
The recently published Innovating Pedagogy report explores contemporary and innovative forms of teaching, learning and assessment for an interactive world, to guide teachers and policy makers in productive innovation. Here are the different sections of the report: About Assessment for learning Badges to accredit learning Learning analytics MOOCs New pedagogy for e-books Personal inquiry learning …
Terry Anderson is currently visiting us here in IET and he just gave a brief presentation on the ‘Athabasca Landing’, which is the virtual learning environment and social network that supports their students. These are my notes from the session…
Dr. Robert Farrow 