Critiques of learning analytics?

Re: Critiques of learning analytics?

by Bert De Coutere -
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I'm just reading a newspaper article on the findings of the USA commission on the financial crisis and what went wrong.
One of the reasons/excuses that came up during the hearings is the utter trust bankers had in their mathematical models to calculate risk. To the point that risk was not managed, but justified by reports.

Learning and all other analytics face similar danger. All the algorithms in the world will not stop us people from having to think really hard. Even harder, because all the algorithms and their findings will give us more to think about... Are we up for that?
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Re: Critiques of learning analytics?

by Paul Bond -
We have to keep in mind that they're tools and not rules. And if we come up with any automated systems based on analytics and algorithms they all have to have manual overrides.