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Thursday, May 6 • 12:30pm - 1:30pm
Learning Analytics in Practice: A Conversation with Dr. Leah Macfadyen LIMITED

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Kate Quinn and Dr. Leah Macfadyen meet virtually for a conversation on Learning Analytics (LA) in Practice. As a leading scholar-practitioner of Learning Analytics, Dr. Leah Macfadyen will draw from her extensive knowledge and experience to explain LA as a tool to inform course design and its relation to Academic Integrity. Dr. Macfadyen will also touch on the common challenges in implementing LA and the surprising insights that LA have offered. This session has been pre-recorded (due to time zone differences) and comes fresh off the heels of the Learning Analytics and Knowledge (LAK) 2021 conference, an international conference organized by the Society for Learning Analytics Research (SoLAR). For more information, please visit solaresearch.org.

Session Objectives
Through participation in this session, participants will
  • consider a leading scholar-practitioner's experience with Learning Analytics in practice
  • gain real-world Learning Analytics insight
  • explore further resources related to Learning Analytics.
Speakers
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Leah Macfadyen

UBC Faculty of Arts
Originally trained in the experimental sciences, I fell into the world of eLearning in 2002 and never looked back. I’m excited that I can bring my hybrid academic background and skillset to the MET program. My early eLearning research (mostly qualitative) drew on my interest in... Read More →
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Kate Quinn

Instructional Design Technologist, Georgian College

Thursday May 6, 2021 12:30pm - 1:30pm EDT
  Session (60 minutes)

Attendees (5)