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Tag Archives: higher education
What I heard, what I did not hear and what I wish I had heard… Reflections on the World Conference on Online Learning, Toronto, 2017
Recently I’ve had the privilege of attending the World Conference on Online Learning in Toronto, organized and hosted by Contact North I Contact Nord. What a conference it was! At times, it resembled a medieval marketplace or bazaar with a … Continue reading
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Tagged Contact North, distance education, higher education, online learning, open distance learning
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Decolonising the collection, analyses and use of student data: A tentative exploration/proposal
Voices from the Global South* (*I know the term is contentious) increasingly demand to not only be recognised in the extremely uneven and skewed terrain of knowledge production and dissemination, but to actively take part and contest and reshape knowledge … Continue reading
Posted in Change.mooc.ca, Uncategorized
Tagged decolonised, decolonising, higher education, learning analytics, Paul Prinsloo, student data
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Algorithmic decision-making in higher education: There be dragons there…
Algorithms do not have agency. People write algorithms. Do not blame algorithms. Do not blame the drones. The drones are not important. The human operators are important. The human operators of algorithms are not lion tamers. Do not blame the … Continue reading
Seeing Jesus in toast: Irreverent ideas on some of the claims pertaining to learning analytics
“In 2004 Diane Duyser sold a decade-old grilled cheese sandwich that bore a striking resemblance to the Virgin Mary. She got $28,000 for it on eBay” (Matter, 2014), and in 2009 Linda Lowe found an image of Jesus staring at … Continue reading
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Tagged e-learning, higher education, learning analytics, predictive modelling, student success
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Students’ role in learning analytics: From data-objects to collaborators
Image credit: http://www.forensic-news.com/hackers-copy-fingerprint-data-from-android-devices-3/ In most of the discourses on learning analytics students and their data are seen as mere data-points or data-objects and recipients of services. Student data are the source for many hours of enjoyment as data analysts, educators, … Continue reading
Of heresies, heretics, and the (im)possibility of hope in higher education
Detail: Bucher Boys (1985/86) by Jane Alexander Abandon all hope, ye who enter here (Inferno, Dante) Amidst the absolute horror, fear and nausea triggered by events such as the recent attacks in #Beirut, #Paris and #Mali, and the continued sponsored … Continue reading
Troubling open education: from ‘Fauxpen’ to open
The third keynote at the recently held ICDE2015 conference was Laura Czerniewicz, one of the most critical and informed scholars in higher education on the African continent, and a critical voice in international higher education, knowledge production and dissemination. The … Continue reading
Posted in Change.mooc.ca
Tagged commons, copyright, higher education, Laura Czerniewicz, open education
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Designing hope: Some ramblings and personal reflections on ICDE2015
I write this blog not firstly as Scientific Chair of the recent ICDE2015 that was hosted by University of South Africa (Unisa), but as a participant observer, a player, a small node in the broader contexts of weak and strong … Continue reading
Silence as counter-narrative in higher, open, distance and e-learning
At the start of 2014 it is important to claim a space in the blogosphere by making predictions for 2014 or analysing the trends in 2013. Writing a blog on being silent or ‘pausing’ is therefore most probably strange (or … Continue reading
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Tagged blog, blogging, distance education, e-learning, education, higher education, Nicoli Humphry, open distance learning, power, silence
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