KMi hosted a Social Learning Analytics symposium, in which we provided an update on the research programme. It served as a student work-in-progress event, and was a hybrid f-f/webinar as part of SoLAR Storm — the new virtual research lab convened by the Society for Learning Analytics Research, to build research capacity in this new…
Vancouver has just hosted the 4-day 2nd International Conference on Learning Analytics & Knowledge. What we see unfolding is an intriguing landscape for educational research and delivery, whose contours may be remoulded in the way that data science has impacted other academic fields, and businesses. LAK’12 sold out, after doubling in size from last year’s…
One of the research fields which KMi leads is Computer-Supported Argumentation, in particular, Argument Mapping — the visualization of the structure of an argument or debate for greater comprehension, better analysis, and collaborative sensemaking. A great example of knowledge transfer to the OU’s frontline is the ArguEd project led by Paul Piwek (Maths, Computing &…
A great success story for KMi technology transfer: our Compendium knowledge mapping tool was customized by the OU’s Learning & Teaching Solutions team for a groundbreaking OU course U101 “Design thinking: creativity for the 21st century”. I met with U101’s chair Peter Lloyd several years ago when the course was in conception, and we discussed…
Simon Buckingham Shum presented FuturICT’s “Global Participatory Platform” to the FET Flagship organizers in November, Warsaw, at a meeting for all six pilot projects to report on progress. As reported in an earlier story (Sept 21, 2011), KMi is playing an active role in FuturICT, one of the EC’s FET Flagship pilots, funded to define…
Last night I was honoured to give a keynote address at Ascilite 2011, the Australasian conference on learning technology and higher education. Entitled “Learning Analytics: Dream, Nightmare, or Fairydust?”, the talk introduced the topic of learning analytics and considered some of the issues around power, principles and pedagogy that will lie at the centre of…
KMi’s Simon Buckingham Shum is Program Co-Chair for the 2nd International Conf. on Learning Analytics and Knowledge. There’s now 3 weeks to go to submit papers to the premier research forum for this fast moving field at the intersection of big data, learning sciences and analytics. Join us in Vancouver! (April 29-May 2, 2012) We…
KMi’s Simon Buckingham Shum and Anna De Liddo spent an intensive 4 days in Germany last week working with leading figures to envisage the future of research communication. Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz Center for Informatics is a premier venue for hosting invitational informatics workshops. “FORC: The Future of Research Communication” was a Perspectives Workshop, bringing…
KMi’s Simon Buckingham Shum has co-founded LearningEmergence.net, a research and development website and international network, with the Systems Centre: Learning & Leadership, University of Bristol. This collaborative venture exploits the complementary expertise of KMi’s work on social sensemaking knowledge media, with Ruth Deakin Crick’s work on 21st Century pedagogy, joining forces to drive forward our…
KMi’s Simon Buckingham Shum & Anna De Liddo gave a seminar at the Palo Alto Research Center (PARC), renowned for its ground-breaking computing R&D in many fields, including Human-Computer Interaction, Hypertext and Sensemaking. Their seminar at the Intelligent Systems Lab, hosted by Maarten Sierhuis (Knowledge, Language & Interaction Area Manager) and Gregorio Convertino (Augmented Social…
