Slides on what I consider important transitions in society which impact our education system and thereby the analytics we want to have. Slides will be used on the OWD13 symposium of SURF on the 12th of November. The slides are part of a bigger presentation about the current state of Learning Analytics in the Netherlands.

1. Change in society
Change in education
Change in analytics

2. Change in information
Hierarchical
Connected

3. Change in group
Homogeneous
Heterogeneous

4. Change in focus
?
?
Outcome
Process

5. ?
Change in education
?

6. Change in society
Change in education
Change in analytics

7. Change in information
Learning in open ecosystems
Exploration vs. exploitation
Learning Analytics should:
Drop the closed world assumption
Find useful learning material
Assess quality of material

8. Change in group
Mass personalized learning
Multi-disciplinary collaboration
Learning Analytics should:
Avoid pushing towards an average
Contextualize analysis of behavior
Support meaningful social interaction

9. Change in focus
?
Harder to predict outcome
More focus on “soft skills”
Learning Analytics should:
Support qualitative reflection
Focus on formative feedback
Find similar peers and mentors

10. Learning Analytics will be
More open-ended
More personalized
?
More supportive