From Inge de Waard’s blog on a new Carnegie Mellon initiative making learning data public.
“Carnegie Mellon University will open the world’s largest database on student learning to the public in an effort to identify best practices and standards for using technology in the classroom”. The initiative will be called the Simon Initiative, and which will (initially?) build upon the research taking place at the Pittsburgh Science of Learning Center (PSLC) and their partners.”
John and Kris attended a session at NMSU a few years back to learn more about the Open Learning Initiative at Carnegie Mellon. Good to see that the data from the initiative is going public.
“Learning data” is the “gold” that can be mined to produce effective real time adaptive learning such as Knewton is working on, among others. The pot of gold under the rainbow PSA is hoping for would be “linking in” local or regional DLE to national or even world wide learning databases for real time adaptive learning.
That component is obviously a truly “massive” undertaking, and not a matter of mom and pop DLE providers doing it on their own and by themselves. Fortunately, any Learning Data center would be always driving to obtain more data from wherever they can get it…pretty much. So they’d have an interest in aggregating demand for their services from Mom and Pops.