Indicators of engagement

Colin Beer; Ken Clark; David Jones

ASCILITE - Australian Society for Computers in Learning in Tertiary Education Annual Conference 2010 (2010) pp. 75–86

Student engagement has become synonymous with the measurement of teaching and learning quality at universities. The almost global adoption of learning management systems as a technical solution to e-learning within universities and their ability to...

Analytics and complexity: Learning and leading for the future

Colin Beer; David Jones; Damien Clark

ASCILITE - Australian Society for Computers in Learning in Tertiary Education Annual Conference 2012 (November 2012)

There is growing interest in the application of learning analytics to manage, inform and improve learning and teaching within higher education. In particular, learning analytics is seen as enabling data-driven decision making as universities are...

The indicators project identifying effective learning: Adoption, activity, grades and external factors

Colin Beer; David Jones; Ken CLark

ASCILITE - Australian Society for Computers in Learning in Tertiary Education Annual Conference 2009 (2009) pp. 60–70

Learning management systems have become almost ubiquitous as a technical solution to elearning within universities. Extant literature illustrates that LMS system logs, along with other IT systems data, can be used to inform decision-making. It also...

Academic involvement with the LMS: An exploratory study

Ken Clark; Colin Beer; David Jones

ASCILITE - Australian Society for Computers in Learning in Tertiary Education Annual Conference 2010 (2010) pp. 487–496

There is growing interest in the use of academic analytics however most of the reported work is being done at the level of institutions, and groupings of courses within those institutions.This study is an exploratory case study aimed at analyzing an ...

Identification of "At Risk" Students Using Learning Analytics: The Ethical Dilemmas of Intervention Strategies in a Higher Education Institution

Celeste Lawson; Colin Beer; Dolene Rossi; Teresa Moore; Julie Fleming

Educational Technology Research and Development Vol. 64, No. 5 (2016) pp. 957–968

Learning analytics is an emerging field in which sophisticated analytic tools are used to inform and improve learning and teaching. Researchers within a regional university in Australia identified an association between interaction and student...

Bringing 'second life' to a tough undergraduate course: Cognitive apprenticeship through machinimas

Nona Muldoon; David Jones; Jennifer Kofoed; Colin Beer

ASCILITE - Australian Society for Computers in Learning in Tertiary Education Annual Conference 2008 (2008) pp. 653–657

Exploring a Cross-Institutional Research Collaboration and Innovation: Deploying Social Software and Web 2.0 Technologies to Investigate Online Learning Designs and Interactions in Two Australian Universities

Dolene Rossi; Henriette van Rensburg; R E. Harreveld; Colin Beer; Damien Clark; P A. Danaher

Journal of Learning Design Vol. 5, No. 2 (2012) pp. 1–11

One significant manifestation of the proposition of a "classroom without walls" is the online learning environments evident in most contemporary Australian universities. A key element of the effectiveness of those environments is the quality of the...

Reflections on Online Learning Designs and Cross-Institutional Research Collaborations: Revisiting "Classrooms without Walls" in Two Australian Universities

Dolene Rossi; Henriette van Rensburg; Damien Clark; R E. Harreveld; Colin Beer; P A. Danaher

Journal of Learning Design Vol. 8, No. 3 pp. 78–91

The article on which this paper reflects ["Exploring a Cross-Institutional Research Collaboration and Innovation: Deploying Social Software and Web 2.0 Technologies to Investigate Online Learning Designs and Interactions in Two Australian...