29 Sep Founder Michelle Elia Participates in Learning Analytics Workgroup at Stanford University
Our founder Michelle Elia participated in an international event hosted by Stanford University as part of a brain trust called the The Learning Analytics Workgroup. The result of this workgroup was an excellent white paper. Hit the jump to download the article and learn more.
The National Academy of Engineering (2008) identified 14 grand challenges humans must solve to sustain and improve the human condition for current and future generations. The proposed effort targets the challenge that they identified of advancing personalized learning at scale for all learners with varying needs, skill levels, interests, dispositions, and abilities...
From September 2012 through July 2014, the LAW Project planned and conducted four different workshops, planned and presented three conference panels, led a crowd-sourcing campaign for soliciting learning analytics resources for the field, launched the first Learning Analytics Summer Institute (LASI-13), commissioned 11 white papers on a variety of vital issues for building the field of learning analytics, and completed this final report as a culmination of this work. This report would not have been possible without the 37 contributors or advisors to the LAW Project, who represent multiple interested sectors: 13 from the academy, 9 from for-profit companies, 7 from nonprofit organizations, 4 from government, and 4 from philanthropic foundations. We provide an overview of each of these key activities as an important context for this report.
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