In 2011 the book Academically Adrift "documented how little time students were actually spending on their college coursework — and how little they were learning." It was criticized at the time for drawing sweeping conclusions from limited data. Now one of the authors wants to expand that research and standardize the measurement of learning. A sceptical Goldie Blumenstyk notes that this idea has been around since the pre-internet days but never successfully implemented. She also argues that such an effort would have to dislodge existing learning analytics systems. But they measure different things, says one of the book's authors. But that - in my view - is kind of the point. The content is a McGuffin in academia, and it doesn't really matter whether you learn it.
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