The Linking Open Data cloud diagram / Work found at http://richard.cyganiak.de/2007/10/lod/ / CC BY-SA 3.0 “Everything in the entire world that you can name or address is going to need a page.” http://vimeo.com/11529540 We are almost there. Nearly everything we know in this world is represented in some way on the internet. The next step […]
Visualizing 100 #LAK11 tweets from Twitter
After visualizing chat room dialogue earlier this week, I thought it might be neat to try and visualize some Twitter dialogue from the #LAK11 course. For some reason I thought it would be simple to extract tweets from Twitter for analysis. It wasn’t! So if you happen to know an easier way please leave a […]
Visualizing Online Social Interactions
We have been playing with the social network analysis (SNA) tool NodeXL this week as part of the Learning and Knowledge Analytics 2011 course. NodeXL is a plug in for Excel 2007/2010 which allows you to visualize networks of interactions. I have to say, it is a pretty neat tool! We have produced some awesome […]
LAK11 Week 2: Rise of “Big Data” and Data Scientists
by moppet65535 How many floppy discs would you need to install: Adobe Photoshop CS4 = 358 disks The Sims 3 = 1760 disks Firefox 3 = 12 disks Figures Approximate – Source It’s hard to imagine but only 10-15 years ago we carried around media which held 1.2 megabytes of data. Remember the good old floppy […]
Week 1: Introduction to learning and knowledge analytics
by The Planet I am reflecting on week one of the Learning and Knowledge Analytics 2011 (#LAK11) open online course. I have spent the week reading the articles assigned by the course leaders, exploring the Moodle forum where discussions are taking place, listening in on the Eluminate session which featured guest speaker John Fritz from […]
Learning and Knowledge Analytics 2011
by Marc_Smith I am about to embark on my third massive open online course (MOOC) which starts next week. The course is an introduction to Learning and Knowledge Analytics, a burgeoning area of interest for educational technologists. The course is facilitated by George Siemens (TEKRI, Athabasca University), Jon Drown (SCIS, Athabasca University), Dave Cormier (University […]
Assessing learning in online learning environments
by Chickenball Squish “Nothing that we do to, or for, our students is more important than our assessment of their work and the feedback we give them on it. The results of our assessment influence our students for the rest of their lives and careers – fine if we get it right, but unthinkable if […]
OpenContent Search – What are people looking for?
I created the wordle above using the search terms which have been submitted to the UCT OpenContent website. The larger the word, the more often it is being searched in the directory. I find it fascinating to see what