Last Call: Early Career Research Grant Applications due May 3 at 5pm EDT
The SoLAR ECR Research Grant serves to support promising early career researchers who demonstrate the potential to advance research and practice in learning analytics and increase the educational and socio-economic impacts of learning analytics. Proposed projects should improve our understanding of learning analytics and learning in general, result in positive impacts on education, and alignContinue reading →
Beyond Threaded Discussions: Learning with Knowledge Building Analytics
Chats and threaded forums dominate how we run online discussions in education. But the quality varies widely and it’s impossible for teachers to tell at a glance if learning is going on. In this article, we introduce new kinds of learning analytics that support Knowledge Building discourse.
AcaWriter: designing automated feedback on writing that teachers and students trust
We know feedback is of paramount importance to help students learn to write and improve their writing skills, but providing good formative feedback is a lot of work for educators. In this blog post, I’ll share what we’re learning about the effective use of automated feedback tools in teaching.
Welcome to NEXUS: A learning analytics blog!
It’s a pleasure to welcome you to Nexus, the new blog from SoLAR — The Society for Learning Analytics Research!