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Holland, C
SMART 2014 - SOCIAL MEDIA IN ACADEMIA: RESEARCH AND TEACHING
Re-conceptualizing learning ecologies and learning analytics as rhizome
2015
January
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The penetration of social media in everyday life has resulted in a corresponding growth in the availability of large data-sets, so called 'Big Data', emergent from tracking and/or mining of user interactions in online settings. It is now possible to better support (and even predict) learner/s achievement through analysis of their interactions within online learning environments. Learning Analytics involves the measurement, collection, analysis and reporting of online data about learners and their contexts, for the purposes of understanding, adapting and optimizing the process of learning and/or the environments in which it occurs. In the context of education, the analysis of this data has the potential to help us learn more about learners' frames of reference, learning styles, preferred modes of learning and patterns of behavior in learning environments. This paper considers learning analytics in online learning ecologies, and posits the rhizome/rhizomatic thinking introduced by Deleuze and Guattari as inspiration for re-conceptualising the processes of learning analytics in the 21st Century.
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