Activities, Ideas, Events
Reflecting on data literacy with school teachers
Invited by the DETECT project where I take part as team for the Open University of Catalonia, I teamed up with Anastasia Gouseti from the University of Hall to develop a workshop for educators. The project stemmed from our initial reflection on the act to generate teachers’ significant opportunities to develop their professional skills to…
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An activity to develop critical data literacies in Higher Education Juliana E. Raffaghelli, Marc Romero, Teresa Romeu Edul@b Research Group Introduction Last year, Edul@b implemented a learning activity to raise awareness on data tracking, privacy and ethics in Digital Competence. Our team had been reflecting on the relevance of cultivating critical digital literacies through our participation in the…
Renewing assessment in Higher Education: exploring the contribution of data literacy
In conversation with Valentina Grion Introduction We started a conversation with Valentina Grion, expert in assessment and evaluation, through the Webinar Series. She has been working for several years in perspectives that support the students’ to be more active, starting from her work on Students’ Voice and her following studies on peer-assessment (with Anna Serbatti)…
Building Fair Data Cultures in Higher Education
Conceptual consolidation after fieldwork! While moving forward in my endeavour to build complex and critical perspectives of data in society, I launched the concept of Data Culture. In the last months, in conversation with several colleagues, I realised that I have been using the term throughout the Webinar Series and in some articles but there…
Un espacio para “educar con sentido”
Fui invitada, el 7 de Junio, a compartir mi trabajo de investigación y reflexiones respecto de la problemática de los datos en la sociedad y en la educación. Vamos a empezar por agradecer a Pablo Rivera Vargas, Raquel Mió Puigcercós y Ezequiel Passeron por la inteligencia de este formato, que permitió generar charlas con tantas…
Datos en la Educación Superior: de las prácticas a la praxis
Tres talleres para analizar (y construir) culturas de datos en la educación superior Y la historia no se ha quedado en tratar de ver las perspectivas que atraviesan las culturas de datos en las IES, ni en observar de cerca nuestros dos casos de estudio en Europa. Hace ya casi un año comenzó una conversacion…
How to build fair data cultures in HEIs?
Overcoming the tension between technology and social criticism Greetings an hope for the upcoming 2021… Closing the Webinar Series “Fair Data Cultures in Higher Education: emerging practices, professionalism and the challenge of social justice” On December 16, a work chapter of my project Ramón y Cajal UOC “Professional Learning Ecologies for Digital Scholarship: Modernizing Higher…
Construir culturas de datos justas en las IES: en busca del equilibrio
Otro capítulo de este viaje que se desarrolla a través de CINEDU 2020, el Congreso Internacional de Innovación Educativa Universitaria Nos movemos a Arequipa, Perú, para encontrarnos con una extensa red de docentes universitarios iberooamericanos, acomunados por el objetivo de buscar mejorar continuamente la educación universitaria. El congreso CINEDU2020 ha sido organizado en un noble…
¿Cómo construir culturas de datos justas en las IES?
Superar la tensión entre tecnología y crítica social En Diciembre se cierra un capítulo de trabajo relacionado con mi proyecto Ramón y Cajal UOC “Professional Learning Ecologies for Digital Scholarship: Modernizing Higher Education by Supporting Professionalism” (Ministerio de Innovación y Ciencia de España, RyC-2016-19589). Este proyecto se abría en a la comunidad UOC en el…
Sustainable Metrics in Higher Education
From assessment of learning to assessment for learning within datafied systems Yes, mostly done, this year. The Webinar Series on Data Cultures in Higher Education is reaching its end, and this piece could not be missed: the needed talk about metrics, quantification and assessment in Higher Education. And for this complex endeavor I called my…
Exploring data practices in Higher Education Institutions: A study
A tale of two universities… Read the synthesis of results We keep on exploring the idea of Data Cultures. We did it now through this survey which uncovered data practices in teaching. Our initial assumption is that the institutions adopt data practices (or get used to them) according not only to individual initiatives of research…
Data literacy in HEIs: a concern for all stakeholders
Data Practices and Cultures: their impact on Educational Quality A new Webinar in the Series “Data Cultures in Higher Education”REGISTRATION OPEN! The question of educational quality in higher education has been a matter of concern for all of us in the last 50 years, particularly since we understood that when talking about quality, we did…
Alfabetización en datos en las IES: una cuestión que implica a todos los grupos de interés
Prácticas y Culturas de Datos: su impacto en la Calidad Educativa Un nuevo seminario Web de la Serie “Culturas de Datos en la Educación Superior”INSCRIPCIONES ABIERTAS La cuestión de la calidad educativa en la educación superior nos ha desvelado en los últimos 50 años, desde que comprendiéramos que al hablar de calidad, no todos nos…
A hierarchy of limitations in machine learning: Data biases and the social sciences
Webinar Series: we are back ;)29 September – 16-18hs (GMT +2) Registrations now Open. We are definitely back after a long and strange summe,r that has seen us trying to clear our minds in the context of a second wave of pandemic in Europe. This webinar series was born in the pre-COVID19 era and yet…
Machine Learning: una jerarquía de limitaciones en la aplicación en ciencias sociales
Volvemos con la Webinar Series ;)29 de Septiembre – 16-18hs (GMT +2) ¡Inscribirse aquí! Luego de un largo y extraño verano que nos ha visto tratando de despejar nuestra mente en el contexto de una segunda ola de pandemia en Europa. Esta webinar series nació en la era pre-COVID19 y sin embargo hoy el tema…
Analíticas de aprendizaje justas: diseño, participación y transdisciplina en la tecno-estructura
Sigue el Ciclo de Webinars “Culturas de Datos Justos en la Educación Superior” Analíticas de aprendizaje justas: ¿Se trata de un oxymoron?
Fair learning analytics: design, participation and transdiscipline within the technostructure
Fair learning analytics: is it an oxymoron? These days we have been bombarded with information on how to teach online: in other words, distance education, or better said, “emergency distance learning”.
Webinar: Building Data Cultures. narratives and activism from the Civil Society
Webinar Series Data Cultures in HE: Emerging practices, professionalism and the challenge of social justice Rahul Bhargava – MIT Media Lab (US) – 20 May 2020 – REGISTRATION OPEN! So far so good, we are approaching to our fifth webinar in the Series. Las one was in the pre-COVID19 era in Spain, and a webinar could make a…
¿Invisibilidad o visibilidad de los datos?: tensiones de la datificación en la crisis COVID19 y el lugar de la educación
No podría ponerme a escribir con propiedad sobre un fenómeno social tan complejo como las problemáticas que el COVID19 está generando respecto al uso de datos en la sociedad. Mi objetivo con este post es simplemente reflexionar sobre lo que queda para quien se mueve en las filas de la educación, pues ése es mi…
Open Data as driver of critical data literacies in Higher Education: …Which Data? Which Openness? …Which Care?
My reflections over a virtual workshop at the OER20 Conference. Again reporting about an activity I led (with Javiera Atenas and Leo Havemann) at the OER20 congress in its virtual version due to the COVI19 crisis. In another post on this same conference I reflected about the problems me and the other presenter (Bonnie Stewart)…
Why should we care about datafication? Critical data literacies in higher education
The adventure of a virtual workshop led by Bonnie Stewart (UniWindsor, Canada) & Juliana Raffaghelli (Edul@b member, UOC) at the OER20 conference. On Wednesday 1 April 2020, we (Bonnie and Juliana) joined the OER20 congress session to deliver a brief workshop based on our joint research activity. It was a bet. The congress had gone…
Opening Data in Technology Enhanced Learning Research: The challenge, the practices
The Webinar Series goes on! On March 12, we have a new Webinar Series’ appointment with Davinia Hernández-Leo from the TIDE Research Group on Interactive and Distributed Technologies for Education.Davinia will shed light on a topic of growing interest: the participation of Technology enhanced learning research to the Open Science movement, with a special focus…
“We used to have fun but then data entered the game…” A new appointment of the Webinar Series
“We used to have fun but then data entered the game…”: Potential and pitfalls of social media in academic professional development” is the title of the webinar by Stefania Manca. On January 28, Stefania Manca from the Institute of Educational Technologies of the National Research Council of Italy will visit us. Stefania has been active…
Un punto de partida…
Lanzamiento de un estudio para comprender las prácticas basadas en datos en varias instituciones. Nos preparamos a distribuir la encuesta en algunas universidades de Cataluña, en Italia, Suecia, Uruguay y Argentina. Dicha encuesta nos permitirá generar un punto de partida, para establecer necesidades de aprendizaje profesional y orientar el diseño de nuevas actividades en este…
Analíticas de Aprendizaje: ¿Un continente oscuro?
Se presentará en el contexto de la actividad del proyecto un seminario sobre analíticas de aprendizaje, discutiendo sus potenciales y peligros en la Universitat de Barcelona, INSTITUT DE DESENVOLUPAMENT PROFESSIONAL Se tratará de una actividad de nivel informativo, sencillamente orientada a comentar definiciones, casos e instrumentos ofrecidos por la UB. Durante la actividad, se tratará…
Visiting Scholar – Bonnie Stewart in the context of the Programme Data Cultures in Higher Education
During the first week of December Edul@b will warmly welcome Prof. Bonnie Stewart. She has been exchanging ideas and jointly working with Juliana E. Raffaghelli (Edul@b member) in the topic of Faculty Development to promote a critical data culture in HE. This collaboration is placed in the context of the raising concern about the problem…
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We need to create an Agorá, a space to discuss this issue, because it has “neither face nor eyes”.
De donde venimos, adonde vamos
Necesitamos crear un Agorá, un espacio para discutir sobre este tema, porque no tiene “ni cara ni ojos”.
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