OU blog

Personal Blogs

New photo

Update on CLARA & ELLI. Conjecture not proper for an EMA (referred to as Bamlett 1016b)

Visible to anyone in the world
Edited by Steve Bamlett, Monday, 8 Aug 2016, 20:24

This blog is referred to as Bamlett (2016b) in my EMA:

Following on from my earlier BLOG, the situation with CLARA and ELLI can be clarified (in as far as I have been able to find appropriate information).

 In August 2016, the development of Dispositional Learning Analytics (DLA) is not as openly discussed as it was before – although I am aware that this, and much of what follows, contains conjecture that would have been improper in my submitted EMA.

The latest news of an ELLI e-learning platform I can find is a blog in ELLI-Global’s website from 2014. ELLI is now the property of ‘ELLI-Global’ (formerly ‘ViTalPartnerships’ (ViTalPartnerships 2011)).

 However Ruth Crick (the name change is made in learningemergence.net) is now developing a new platform with partners (Incept Labs). These developments were described as proposed changes to ELLI in Deakin-Crick et. al. (2015). Crick is now an Australian academic and presumably CLARA is registered globally from there (I got too tired by the fracas to research that further).

 News of CLARA (2015) as an alternative conception was available from learningemergence.net from January 2015, which suggests that the 2015 article had led to, or been contingent to, a rupture before its publication but after it could be amended (but I do not know if that is anything other than my own conjecture). 

Deakin-Crick et. al. 2015 pays tribute to Bristol University in such a way as it seemed to me when I read it (before I discovered CLARA) that they were then party to changing ELLI’s conceptual structure. Maybe, though, they were not.

ELLI (2016) may yield more than I found. Material about CLARA can be sourced from CLARA (2015) and elsewhere: UTS:CIC 2015. 

The politics of global institutional capitalism and ownership (as it manifests in university politics) may therefore be now regulating open access to the future of such systems (conjecturally in the absence of verifiable public realm data).

References

ELLI (2016) ELLI Available from: http://www.elli.global/ (Accessed 05/08/16)

 CLARA (2015) ‘Assessing My Learning Power’ in LearningEmergence.com website Available from: http://clara.learningemergence.com/portfolio/assessing-my-learning-power/ (Accessed 04/08/16).

 UTS:CIC (2015) ‘Crick Learning for Resilient Agency (CLARA)’ Available from:  https://utscic.edu.au/tools/clara/ (Accessed 07/08/16)

 ViTalPartnerships (2011) ‘Effective Lifelong Learning Inventory (ELLI)’ Available from: http://www.thelearningpartnership.com/downloads/vital.pdf (Accessed 06/08/16).

Permalink Add your comment
Share post