“How can we use learning analytics to foster more effective design practices?” Learning and social analytics are important in understanding how people interact with your online content. In my world, where I create content for people I may never meet, I can use surveys to ask people about what they liked or didn’t like, found useful or […]
Continue reading Activity #2 – Conole’s questions Posted in: Week 12: Social Analytics
This is an amazing database! I have been accessing Springer journal articles for some time now, but usually only through the UBC library access since most articles were not free. However, on this site, I was able to do many keyword searches and had no issue with downloading article after article – so that was […]
Continue reading Day 2 Springer Realtime Posted in: Week 12: Social Analytics
Social analytics describes the process of measuring, analyzing and interpreting the results of interactions and associations among people, topics and ideas. These interactions may occur on social software applications used in the workplace, in internally or externally facing communities or on the social web. Social analytics is an umbrella term that includes a number of […]
Continue reading Social Analytics Posted in: Emerging Markets Poll
Before you publish your posting, please make sure that you select a category (eg. Introductions) as well as assign some meaningful tags (keywords).
Allie 10:26 am on November 23, 2011 Permalink | Log in to Reply
I like how you point out how analytics can be an effective supplement for surveys. It reminds me of one of the old adages of anthropology – what people *say* they do (in your case, surveys), and what they *actually* do (say, as perceived through analytics) can often differ. Both are significant pieces of data, and the points of difference and overlap between them can be illuminating.