Learning analytic devices - co-forming, re-forming, in-forming
- Publisher:
- Information Research
- Publication Type:
- Conference Proceeding
- Citation:
- Information Research: an international electronic journal, 2017, 22, (1), pp. 1-9
- Issue Date:
- 2017-03
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Introduction. This work-in-progress paper explores the intersection of theorising in human-data-interaction, information studies and learning analytics as part of a discussion about the role informative artefacts play as agents of learning. Method. The artefacts crafted by learners through collaborative work in two different classroom context are considered both as representations of and representations about learning. Analysis. Framing analytic devices crafted through collaborative work in these classroom examples as boundary objects draws attention to their value as carriers and constructers of ideas within and beyond the classroom. Results. The fluid, transient nature of the activities contributed to their value as informative artefacts in individual and collective sensemaking. Through the constant refreshment and reinvention of the material forms that students exchange with one another (and ultimately with their instructors) information is produced. Conclusion. By playfully allowing for multiple means of interaction, the artefactual agents in the two examples create a range of multimodal action possibilities as material and informative artefacts. The paper invites further conversation about these possibilities and the valuable "social life"(Brown & Duguid, 1996) of analytic devices that shape the ways that learning is understood and enacted as objects of assessment.
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