Simon Buckingham Shum

Simon Buckingham Shum Infrastructure to be trusted     wants to be invisible

    hardly neutral. Models distort, simplify the world

Danielle McNamara: writing analytics

The fourth paradigm: this mode of science is data-intensive     sample size less relevant

    significant patterns easy to find in big data

datasociety.net

Find Pasteur’s quadrant in learning analytics: use this as justification for deep design of the unfold.studio API. Make a general, publically-available API and build the teacher-facing dashboard on top of it.  Use this as the basis for conversations on designing writing analytics software. 

Hybrid innovation/services center Innovtion centers set up outside of faculty structures 

board room, common room, server room

read Carolyn Rose’s chapter on learning analytics in the new handbook of the learning sciences