Welcome to the LACE SoLAR Flare

Welcome!

LACE SoLAR Flare24 October 2014

The Open University, Milton Keynes, UKCo-Chairs:

Doug Clow, Rebecca Ferguson, Simon Cross

Practicalities

• Please turn mobile phones to Airplane Mode– They interfere with the sound system and make it hard for people

watching the live stream

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• If you hear the fire alarm, please leave the way you came in.

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Using Lanyrd

The Lanyrd social directory of events provides access to information about:

• Events• Speaker• Participants

The entry for this event will include:

• Slides• Twitter archives

Feel free to add your details.

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Vision for the day

• Bring people together• Facilitate conversations

– One to many good, many to many better

• Help build the field

Practicalities

• Two exciting plenary presentations• Poster session & coffee• Lightning presentations• Lunch• Evidence Hub activity• Networking session & tea

Evidence Hub activity groups

• Allocated you to a group, on boards outside• Two questions per group• Swap group if you want to

– Cross out your name and put it on the other one– BEFORE THE END OF MORNING COFFEE/POSTER BREAK

• We will guide you to the right room.

What is learning analytics?

• the measurement, collection, analysis and reporting of data about learners and their contexts, for purposes of understanding and optimising learning and the environments in which it occurs – First International Conference on Learning Analytics And Knowledge (LAK11), Banff, Alberta, Feb 27-

Mar 1, 2011

Photo (CC)-BY Cris: http://flickr.com/photos/chrismatos/6917786197/

Clow, LAK12, 2012

• LAK conferences• LASI workshops• Flare local meetings• Storm PhD training• Journal of LA• … and more!

www.solaresearch.org

www.laceproject.euLearning Analytics Community Exchange (FP7)

• Coordination and Support• Evidence Hub• Events: SoLAR Flare, 24 Oct 14, UK• Publications, briefings, webinars

#DALMOOC Data, Analytics and Learning

• George Siemens, Carolyn Rosé, Dragan Gasevic, Ryan Baker

@dalmooc http://bit.ly/1wqdkfy

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“Welcome” by Doug Clow, Institute of Educational Technology, The Open University, was presented at the LACE SoLAR Flare, The Open University, Milton Keynes, UK, on 24 October 2014.

@dougclowdougclow.orgdoug.clow@open.ac.uk

This work was undertaken as part of the LACE Project, supported by the European Commission Seventh Framework Programme, grant 619424.

These slides are provided under the Creative Commons Attribution Licence: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/. Some images used may have different licence terms.

www.laceproject.eu@laceproject