From live web analytics to… live learning analytics!

We have discussed in earlier posts about personalized learning could affect students with disabilities.

A keystone need for personalized learning systems and curriculum differentiation has to do with assessment of learners’ progress. Assessment has to take under account specific factor for each student and adapt accordingly. Using technologies to assess students’ progress can have a series of benefits but most importantly it can support easier the adaptations needed for assessment for students with disabilities. Designing assessments for students with disabilities has to take under account various factors such as time, place, objectives etc. in order to be in equal terms with other peers.

Nature, instincts, intuition and… a nipple!

Baby breastfeeding

I will begin this year with  a subject that came to me after a conversation with some good friends out there. I just hope that if they are reading this post they will find it interesting.

I was looking into the ideas of natural and intuitive user interfaces trying to find out what is the actual definition for each of these and how they relate and so on. After some search I expected to find some concrete definitions in papers but I was unlucky. I finally realized that definitions in such new domains are not that clear so I will attempt to describe them in my own words.