Many of the Web 2.0 tools will enhance the teaching and learning process. Unfortunately keeping up with all of the latest and greatest tools can seem overwhelming at times. However, they even have tools out there that can help to alleviate that stress too! I use a tool called Delicious. It is a website bookmarking website that allows me to categorize, organize, and keep notes about all of the websites and links I've chosen to include. It also allows me to connect with others through a network while it provides me suggested links, articles, and websites based upon my selected links.
According to the NCCE Leadership Innovation Learning webpage, educators who use Web 2.0 tools and technologies, "...make teaching with technology easy, intuitive and powerful" (Northwest Council for Computer Education, n.d.).
Learning Analytics are just that...they are technology tools that will increase the ease of collecting data and results to reflect on the teaching practices to improve the learning of students, thus making the entire learning process more powerful and effective.
Learning Analytics is not submitting all kids through testing and removing the human interaction in the process. It is not implying that students will learn through a computer without even being evaluated by individuals. It is not saying that computers will read the students minds to understand how they are learning. Learning Analytics is about using tools and techniques to understand how students are or are not learning. It may include using learning objects and other Web 2.0 tools.
Here are two sites which offer excellent suggestions for Web 2.0 tools that can work well with Learning Analytics:
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