Envisioning Learning Analytics for 21st Century Competencies (LASI-Asia2016)
Channel: Simon Buckingham Shum
Date: 20/09/2016

Educational systems are slowly shifting their teaching and assessment practices to intentionally equip students with the knowledge, skills, and dispositions that will better prepare them to thrive despite the turbulence and uncertainty of our complex world. Many terms are used that relate to the idea of “21st century competencies”, since these distinctively human qualities are now at a premium in the workplace, as routine cognitive work is automated and the problems we face grow in complexity. Learning Analytics offer different kinds of computational support for tracking learner behaviour, managing educational data, visualising patterns, and providing rapid feedback to both educators and learners. In this talk I provide examples of different approaches that are being developed, and identify some of the challenges that must be tackled if we are to quantify C21 competencies in a meaningful way.