Learning Analytics

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24 January 2020 at 2:23pm

Data, Flows and Benefits

Intelligent Campus

[A second post arising out of excellent discussions at the DALTAí project seminar in Dublin this week] We're all familiar, perhaps too familiar, with how data flows typically work online. We give commercial companies access to data about ourselves; they extract some benefit from it, for example by selling profiled advertising space; they share some of that benefit back to us, for example in the form of services we don't have to pay money for.

24 January 2020 at 2:17pm

Learning Analytics: helping tutors help students

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#DALTAI_HE

Talking to new audiences, who may not share your preconceptions, is a great way to learn new things. So I was delighted to be invited to Dublin to talk about learning analytics as part of their DALTAí project (an English backronym creating the Irish for student: bilingualism creates opportunities!). The audience - and my fellow panellists - came from a particularly wide range: students, tutors, ethics, regulatory, administrative, etc. all around one table.

6 December 2019 at 11:26am

Showing Accountability for Personal Data

A few weeks ago I gave a presentation to an audience of university accommodation managers (thanks to Kinetic for the invitation), where I suggested that we should view Data Protection as an opportunity, rather than a challenge.

26 July 2019 at 3:47pm

Draft Wellbeing Analytics Code of Practice

Following on from my previous blog post on the possible uses of wellbeing analytics, we'd very much welcome comments on this latest draft of our Code of Practice. Note that this includes the maximum safeguards from all legal bases that seem likely to apply, so even if our continuing investigations conclude that some of those bases are not appropriate, the Code's recommendations are unlikely to change significantly.

3 May 2019 at 10:16am

Wellbeing analytics: legal explorations

While colleagues are looking at whether data can be used to pick up early signs of mental health and wellbeing problems, I'm exploring possible legal frameworks for doing that safely. As the diagram shows, trying to deliver an early warning service to all students falls into a gap between three reasonably familiar areas of data protection law:

11 February 2019 at 8:02pm

My Algorithmic "Friend"

In a workshop at last week's AMOSSHE conference, we discussed how wellbeing analytics might be able to assist existing Student Support services.

7 February 2019 at 2:35pm

Data and Ethics: update

Earlier this week I did a presentation to a group from Dutch Universities on the ethics work that Jisc has done alongside its studies, pilots and services on the use of data.

12 December 2018 at 1:34pm

Explorations in GDPR