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Ge Vue and Tracey Hall Purpose to teach middle school students how to become effective writers through web based learning tools. Needing to integrate writing elements, such as making statements, cognitive strategies and affective strategies. Designed a visualisation dashboard to … Continue reading →

Erica Snow, Laura Allen, Matthew Jacovina, Cecile Perret and Danielle McNamara Writing is not easy! Aim is to better understand the writing process and build that understanding into interventions and strategies to improve writing. Focus on linguistic features that make … Continue reading →

Perry Samson Qus: how can we know whether students are engaging with our teaching? What makes a smart student smart? Do smart students engage in a different way? Outcomes likely to be impacted by motivation, academic background and their participation, … Continue reading →

Rodriguez-Triana, Martinez-Mones and Villagra-Sobrino Based on previous studies into LA in higher education. Little awareness previously paid to data privacy and ethical issues (“because the data was already there and available”). A recognition that automatic data (VLE) is not enough. … Continue reading →

Khalil and Ebner Key issues are: Transparency and 3rd party issues, identification, ownership, accuracy, security. Research into how to de identify students. In context of education, tensions between learning analytics and personal information. Students don’t want research into their personal … Continue reading →

Tore Hoel and Chen Privacy control of data and trust essential to learning analytics. What are the implications for LA design of setbacks in learning analytics/privacy issues? Who owns the data? LACE suggests we give parents and students control of … Continue reading →

Summary of our recent paper neatly borrowed from the LACE blog (with thanks): http://www.laceproject.eu/blog/moral-tightrope-learning-analytics/