The Logic of Data-Sense: Thinking through Learning Personalisation

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Title: The Logic of Data-Sense: Thinking through Learning Personalisation
Language: English
Authors: Thompson, Greg, Cook, Ian
Source: Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education. 2017 38(5):740-754.
Availability: Routledge. Available from: Taylor & Francis, Ltd. 530 Walnut Street Suite 850, Philadelphia, PA 19106. Tel: 800-354-1420; Tel: 215-625-8900; Fax: 215-207-0050; Web site: http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals
Peer Reviewed: Y
Page Count: 15
Publication Date: 2017
Document Type: Journal Articles
Reports - Evaluative
Descriptors: Individualized Instruction, Educational Research, Data Collection, Data Analysis, Educational Environment, Technological Advancement, Technology Uses in Education
DOI: 10.1080/01596306.2016.1148833
ISSN: 0159-6306
Abstract: Big Data and Learning Analytics' promise to revolutionise educational institutions, endeavours, and actions through more and better data is now compelling. Multiple, and continually updating, data sets produce a new sense of "personalised learning." A crucial attribute of the datafication, and subsequent profiling, of learner behaviour and engagement is the continual modification of the learning environment to induce greater levels of investment on the parts of each learner. The assumption is that more and better data, gathered faster and fed into ever-updating algorithms, provide more complete tools to understand, and therefore improve, learning experiences through adaptive personalisation. The argument in this paper is that Learning Personalisation names a new logistics of investment as the common "sense" of the school, in which disciplinary education is 'both disappearing and giving way to frightful continual training, to continual monitoring'.
Abstractor: As Provided
Number of References: 38
Entry Date: 2017
Accession Number: EJ1150643
Database: ERIC
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