Week 2 Readings

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I was glad to learn about the distincition between learning analytics (learners and their contexts) and academic analytics (business focus on the institutional, regional and international level). This helps to understand where and how analytics can be transformative.

The Educause article by Campbell and Oblinger was informative with respect to the depth and breadth of academic analytics and who the players and stakeholders are as well as describing the data, how it is gatehered and reported and what can be achieved. I particulary appreciated the straightforward listing of the potential and the concerns.

The wordle was fun as always. The article on data mining for education was too researchy for my taste and too specific for my purposes.