A potential danger of academic analytics
Colin Beer,
Col's Weblog,
Mar 26, 2011
This is my concern as well: "One of the dangers as I see it, is that while academic analytics provides some great data for educators on what is happening in learning situations facilitated by an LMS, there may be a temptation to use it as some sort of performance measurement." Learning is not reductive. Or, more accurately: even if learning is reductive, attempts to assess learning through reductive mechanisms such as analytics are very likely to abstract out essential elements of that learning. For example, analytical indicators can describe a doctor's performance, but fail to detect his complete lack of compassion. Or analytics may describe a pilot's practice flights, but fail to detect his habit of pushing buttons without looking at them.
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