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Tweet At the imminent LAK13 conference, I’m convening a panel to investigate an important challenge for the field – the skills shortage, definition, and career trajectory for data scientists in education. Who?… Over the coming few weeks before LAK13, we want to gauge the community’s thoughts and queries on these issues. Specifically, we invite your [...]

Tweet (With thanks to George Siemens, John Stamper and Emily Schneider for helping my thinking on this with their postings to the Learning Analytics group, and yesterday’s conversation at BETT13 with Daphne Koller) We are about to see the emergence of a MOOC data/analytics ecosystem. Part of the value proposition to partners who sign up to [...]

Tweet I’m at the huge BETT2013 tradeshow, which has a HigherEd track for the first time (I think). Touring around the stands to see how many vendors are aware of where analytics is going… Just gave a LearnLive session on Learning Analytics: Unlocking student data for 21st century learning? Learning Analytics BETT2013 from Simon Buckingham [...]

Tweet As we draw to the close of an extraordinary year in the development of the Learning Analytics field, the invitation to write an executive summary on the topic is the chance to sum up where I think we’ve got to, and where we might want to be heading. We’re at, or approaching, the peak [...]

Tweet In joint work with Ruth Deakin Crick and Shaofu Huang at University of Bristol, Rebecca Ferguson and I are developing an approach to modelling learning dispositions, based on the educational research underpinning the ELLI instrument for Learning Power: Buckingham Shum, S. and Deakin Crick, R., Learning Dispositions and Transferable Competencies: Pedagogy, Modelling and Learning [...]

Tweet The European FET Flagships competition has the following mission: FET Flagships are ambitious large-scale, science-driven, research initiatives that aim to achieve a visionary goal. The scientific advance should provide a strong and broad basis for future technological innovation and economic exploitation in a variety of areas, as well as novel benefits for society. As [...]

Tweet Stanford University, July 1-5, 2013 www.solaresearch.org/events/lasi twitter: #lasi13 This should be a field-defining network of events — see website for full details…

Tweet There’s been a flurry of interest in mapping within the Open Educational Resources community, catalysed by Susan D’Antoni’s facilitated 3-week online discussion to crowdsource requirements for a participatory “OER World Map”. This has sparked many dreams and visions about what could or should be usefully ‘mapped’. This discussion triggered memories from back in 2008 [...]

Tweet Tomorrow we host the first national meetup on learning analytics, one of the SoLAR “Flares” lighting up all round the world, following the gathering in the US, with Sydney next week… This is the first UK gathering dedicated to the exploding field of Learning Analytics. Under the auspices of Society for Learning Analytics Research [...]

Tweet Last week I joined 90 PhD students and about a dozen other academic tutors in a converted monastery in the hills above Girona, for the ICO 2012 Fall School. This brings together students from across Europe primarily, to present and discuss their research into education, in some cases involving learning technologies. I piloted a [...]