Activity 3 – Week 12 (Analysing Learning Analytics – Investors/Venture Analysts)
This experience is designed to create an analysis of the current market for Learning Analytics Ventures. Its purpose is to help you understand critical information in the analysis, design and evaluation of a social/learning analytics venture. Multiple roles are presented: students, educators, instructional designers, venture analysts, entrepreneurs, and investors.
You may respond to one or more of the categories as desired.
This Blog is dedicated for your response as Investors/Venture Analysts
What elements would you desire to see in a pitch on learning analytics?
Why would/why would you not invest in social/learning analytics?
What elements will you use to analyse a social/learning analytic venture?
What elements do you consider essential in creating a successful social/learning analytic venture?
These questions are prompts. You may use them or respond in any other way.
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Posted in: Week 12: Social Analytics
Deb Kim 10:36 pm on November 24, 2011 Permalink | Log in to Reply
As Brenda mentioned in her post already, I think it’s a great idea to have a tool that analyzes that the data (e.g. graphs, tables, and digrams) represent.
If I see social analytics in a student’s point of view, it doesn’t seem that useful as an educational tool because I probably wouldn’t understand what those data (e.g. graphs, tables, and diagrams) represent. As an investor, I wouldn’t invest my money if I believed that students in general wouldn’t think it to be a helpful tool. As mentioned in ‘Limitations of Social Analytics’ (in Week 12 blog), “social analytics requires skillful analysts to statistically test findings to determine their significance, and to offer meaningful interpretations and explanations of them”. In other words, audience in general is not familiar with social analytics.
However, by adding the analysis of the data, audience would be able to understand the importance of social analytics and use it more often to monitor their interaction with others.
Deb
David Berljawsky 8:19 am on November 26, 2011 Permalink | Log in to Reply
Hi Deb,
thanks for your post. I couldn’t agree with you more. As an investor I wouldn’t want to invest in something that I didn’t believe that my clients wanted. I completely agree that by educating (if you will) your clients about the importance of social analytics than they are more likely to be supportive. My one issue is that perhaps due to the inquisitive and personal nature of social analytics than perhaps clients can possibly be turned off from investing in this technology. Of course this is just a potential outcome, I believe that yours is far more likely.
thanks for the post.
David.