Shahrinaz Ismail

I do believe that both LAK and EDM are from the areas of Educational Research even though not directly; more on technicalities in terms of data/information, methods of analysis. They are the shared areas between Educational Research and other technological research, such as artificial intelligence and of course data mining.

So far, this is what I understand from the 'research areas' that makes LAK (as shown in attached diagram).

- Shazz
Kuala Lumpur 10:30PM

Thanks, Viplav... Your explanation really put my understanding in words, quite clearly (about the patterns and paths versus numbers).

Tailing this, I wonder:
- How can this pattern be presented to senior management (assuming they are not at 'our level of understanding') in a form that they appreciate?
- How can we be certain that the paths the employee takes in getting to the final point are something they learnt and contributing to the final result, or merely a waste of time until they found the right 'nodes'?
- How should the evaluation be designed to make it fair for every employee (because some people do take time to understand after a long-winded paths, etc...)?
- Does this mean an experienced 'wanderer' could achieve the KPI better than newbies? I don't think so too.

There's still further way to go after this, and I believe corporate sector is very particular about 'measurement' in evaluation.

Hope I'm in track with my points,
- Shazz
Kuala Lumpur 1:33AM

For the purpose of this course, I've created a blog at:
http://shazz-lak.blogspot.com/

As for my personal twit, the location is: http://twitter.com/sha905

Have fun connecting! ;D
- Shazz
Kuala Lumpur

I think I've mentioned before in one of my replies or reviews that this learning analytics is becoming more and more of 'education management' area. Yes, we can still use it to measure performance and understand the situation in classroom scenes, but what is the point if only a few classes (or facilitators) use it, and the result of overall system cannot be tabulated?

I guess I'm talking on behalf of 'small lecturers' in an establishing university that is yet to understand and realise the power of learning analytics.

My concerns are more on measurement, whether the results meet the initial objectives we want (because we tend to 'drown' in the pool of data overflow), and what's next...

I mean, we can analyse all we want from the stats and figures we retrieve, but do we really know what to do with it, or what difference can we make out of it? Because again, this is education management level, and the results may say that "this is for registrar dept to change, not me" or "this is my faculty board's responsibility, not me".

Honest opinion,
Shazz
Kuala Lumpur 6:13AM 17Jan2011

Agreed. In fact, what I did was merely extracting parts in the article that interest me, including definitions... and my summary on the gist of article is so short.

You can check my 'review' on http://shazz-lak.blogspot.com/2011/01/gist-of-first-reading.html

Digesting slowly still...
-sz