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Chapter 28 - Personal Analytics in the Science of Learning

from Part VII - Futuristic and Ultramodern Higher Education

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 June 2022

By
Russell Butson  and
Kait O’Callahan
Edited by
Andreas Kaplan
Andreas Kaplan
Affiliation:
ESCP Business School Berlin
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Summary

Universities, as with other social institutions, have had to adapt to the pressures of change driven by the digital revolution. Given that education as a discipline is rooted in the very practice of transformation, it is not surprising it could play a core role in promoting and developing this new terrain; at least that was the vision in the 1990’s. Twenty years on, it appears higher education may well have missed some opportunities. The recognition of student-centred learning, while upheld in rhetoric, has failed to be realised in practice. Much of the digital influence in higher education has concentrated on technologies for content delivery to support the principle that learning is the result of teaching. In this chapter, we offer an alternative view of learning as a personal endeavour fuelled by inquiry rather than institutional compliance. We argue that emerging wearable technologies offer a new frontier into the science of learning, in ways that were previously unimaginable. We begin by addressing our rationale and some of the historical tensions in this space. This is followed by two scenarios where wearable devices were deployed by students, eager to gain a deeper understanding of the impact of stress and sleep on their academic endeavours. We believe this work illustrates the importance of physiological markers for a more student-centred approach in the practice of learning.

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academiaanalyticschangehigher educationuniversitiestransformationwearables
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Digital Transformation and Disruption of Higher Education , pp. 377 - 390
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2022

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