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From Actionable Dashboards to Action Dashboards

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Dashboards in educational contexts are usually comprised of visualizations of educational data. For example, dashboards inside the LMS are often comprised of line charts, bar graphs, and pie charts of data like logins and quiz scores. The primary goal of educational dashboard design is, ostensibly, for them to be “actionable.” In other words, a teacher, … Read more

On the Impossibility of the Community-based Production of Learning Content

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UPDATE: I borrowed the “community based” language in the title of this post from Martin’s blog, which reminded me of Yochai’s article and prompted this post. That language has caused confusion on social media. (Long-time readers of this blog will be surprised to learn that definitions matter!) I should have used Yochai’s language of “peer … Read more

Learning Engineering and Reese’s Cups

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Reposting this message I sent to the Learning Analytics mailing list earlier this morning. When I hear people say “learning engineering” I hear them talking about Reese’s cups. I hear them talking about delicious chocolate (instructional design, or applied learning science or whatever you like to call it) and yummy peanut butter (learning analytics, or … Read more