I published the last blog before I had completed it – which is why it seemed so unfinished… because it was! The Society for Learning Analytics Research defined learning analytics as “the measurement, collection, analysis and reporting of data about learners and their contexts, for purposes of understanding and optimizing learning and the environments in […]

I decided that for my learning analytics visualisation activity, I would log how many times I use Google Translate to look up a word in Kiswahili. I have been learning Swahili for a year, and I have two lessons a week, on Skype, with a retired Tanzanian Professor. I live in Nairobi, where English is […]

The Society for Learning Analytics Research defined learning analytics as “the measurement, collection, analysis and reporting of data about learners and their contexts, for purposes of understanding and optimizing learning and the environments in which it occurs”   Long, P.D., Siemens, G., Conole, G. and Gašević, D.(Eds) (2011), Proceedings of the 1st International Conference On […]