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Learning analytics in a Ugandan context

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Edited by Tabitha Naisiko, Wednesday, 30 Oct 2019, 14:32

From the article Ferguson (2012), learning analytics: drivers, development and challenges, I have come up with the following key issues that would contextualize the article in Ugandan realities.

⁃   Learning analytics is a huge data driven measurement approach aimed at promoting efficient and effective management of learning and educational processes. It is done by the academic institutions to measure, demonstrate and improve performance.

⁃   Learning analytics is an implementation of social technology to addresses pedagogical issues to using technology so that education becomes functional to address societal issues in the formulation of informed policies. In other words, learning analytics addresses anthropological/sociological behind the production and impact of technology in education.   

⁃  However, while the above is the idea of learning analytics, it is unfortunate that learning analytics have turned out to aim at promoting consumerism drive through new technologies. It turns out that now the consumerists turn educational technologies into business whereby at times, the industry informs the curriculum through financing research and innovations which will compel the education sector to buy from them.

⁃  Precisely learning analytics is a double sharpened sword whose impact depends on the usage and motive. However, I would promote the use of learning analytics for it systematizes the educational process and can enable academic quality assurance and promotion.  


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