The Quantified Learner: Giving Students Their Data to Empower Them
The Quantified Learner: Giving Students Their Data to Empower Them
Thursday, November 01 | 4:15PM–5:00PM MT | Meeting Room 403
Session Type:
Breakout Session
Delivery Format:
Interactive Presentation
Hear about a "quantified-self" student application developed to help students become more reflective learners. Get details about a data-driven paradigm shift directed at students as consumers of their learning data. Design and development of the application, implementation, and outcomes of a cross-institutional pilot of this unique learner analytics application will be shared. Participants will engage in an activity to brainstorm strategies to motivate students to remember to track their time.
Outcomes: Understand the theoretical use case central to a learner analytics initiative * Understand principles for applying learner analytics to create more empowered and reflective learners * Explain the affordances of a quantified-self student application in the context of a data-driven decision-making paradigm
Presenters
Kim Arnold
Director, Learning Analytics Center of Excellence, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Bethany Croton
Educational Technologist, Purdue University
Resources & Downloads
The Quantified Learner Giving Students Back their Data to Inform and Empower