[Open-education] Introduction - and information about the EU-funded LACE project

Tue Jul 8 12:46:28 UTC 2014

Hi all

    Although I subscribed to this list shortly after it was set up in August
2013 I don't think I got round to introducing myself and summarising my
areas of work.

    My job title is Innovation Advocate. I'm based at Cetis, the Centre for
Educational Technology, Interoperability and Standards which is located at
the University of Bolton.  I previously worked at UKOLN, University of Bath
from 1996-2013 where I first became involved in making use of and promoting
open practices, including my UK Web Focus blog.

     One of my current areas of work is supporting the EU-funded LACE
project.  As described on the LACE web site [1]:

LACE partners are passionate about the opportunities afforded by current and
future views of learning analytics (LA) and educational data mining (EDM)
but we are concerned about missed opportunities, undesirable consequences of
mis-application, investment funding failing to realise value, market
failure, etc. LACE is our response, a project to reduce risk and to increase
benefit through an approach that accounts for the necessary unity of
research, policy and practice.

We have recently launched the LACE newsletter [2] and are looking to
encourage others with interests in learning analytics and educational data
mining to join our community [3]. WE are also providing information on
learning analytics events [4].

I'd be interested to hear from others on this list who have an interest in
this area. Clearly open education and learning analytics have an overlap
(although learning analytics will be relevant to closed learning as well!)

Thanks

Brian

References

1 About LACE,  <http://www.laceproject.eu/lace/>
http://www.laceproject.eu/lace/

2 https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?A0=LACEPROJECT

3 http://www.laceproject.eu/join-community/

4 http://lanyrd.com/profile/laceproject/

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Brian Kelly, Innovation Advocate, Cetis, University of Bolton, UK

Email:  <mailto:ukwebfocus at gmail.com> ukwebfocus at gmail.com

Twitter: @briankelly

Blog:  <http://ukwebfocus.wordpress.com/> http://ukwebfocus.wordpress.com/

Cetis web site: http://www.cetis.ac.uk/

LACE project web site: http://www.laceproject.eu/

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