Presented at the CETIS/CIEPD event Future Learners, new Opportunities and Technology at the University of Nottingham on 11th December 2012

1. Measuring Lifelong Learning
(E-portfolios become Big Data)
Future Learners, new Opportunities and Technology – JISC CETIS
December 12th 2012
Neil Bachelor

2. Progress so far
30,425 hours of learning activity
3,200 different learning events
>2,500 Web-articles
125 Research Papers
60+ Talks & Meetup Events
56 Books
43 Projects
20+ Conferences + Seminars
16 Qualifications
8 Job Roles

3. Why?
Track both formal and informal learning
Create a data-based CV
Help personalise learning + reduce
frictions in labour market

4. How?
Semantic bookmarking activity with Faviki

5. How?
Into a spreadsheet…

6. Visualisation

7. Visualisation

8. Visualisation

9. September

10. October

11. November

12. Other Challenges
The 4 Vs of Big Data
Volume
Velocity
Variety
Veracity

13. Other Challenges
The 4 Vs of Big Data
Volume
Velocity
Variety
Veracity

14. Other Challenges
The 4 Vs of Big Data
Volume
Velocity
Variety
Veracity

15. Other potential data sources

16. Other Challenges
The 4 Vs of Big Data
Volume
Velocity
Variety
Veracity

17. Despite challenges, is there hope?
Yes!
Volume
Velocity } technology (hardware, NoSQL, apache
drill)
Variety } Standards (RDFa lite + Schema.org)
Veracity } Timestamping, Linked-data, reputation
networks
And sometimes just the right small data

18. November

19. November – Small Data

20. Next steps?
2 key projects:
- Complete semantic vocabulary for E-portfolio
- Extensible open-source bookmarklet to
capture activity in a standard data format
neil@omnifolio.org / @omnifolio