Learning analytics: challenges and limitations Learning analytics: challenges and limitations Learning analytics: challenges and limitations. Wilson, A., Watson, C., Thompson, T., L., Drew, V., & Doyle, S. Technical Report abstract bibtex Learning analytic implementations are increasingly being included in learning management systems in higher education. We lay out some concerns with the way learning analytics-both data and algorithms-are often presented within an unproblematized Big Data discourse. We describe some potential problems with the often implicit assumptions about learning and learners-and indeed the tendency not to theorize learning explicitly-that underpin such implementations. Finally, we describe an attempt to devise our own analytics, grounded in a sociomaterial conception of learning. We use the data obtained to suggest that the relationships between learning and the digital traces left by participants in online learning are far from trivial, and that any analytics that relies on these as proxies for learning tends towards a behaviourist evaluation of learning processes.
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