Information and communication technologies are increasingly mediating learning and teaching practices as well as how educational institutions are handling their administrative work. As such, students and teachers are leaving large amounts of digital footprints and traces in various educational apps and learning management platforms, and educational administrators register various processes and outcomes in digital administrative systems. It is against such a background we in recent years have seen the emergence of the fast-growing and multi-disciplinary field of learning analytics. In this paper, we examine the research efforts that have been conducted in the field of learning analytics in Austria, Denmark, Finland, Norway, Germany, Spain, and Sweden. More specifically, we report on developed national policies, infrastructures and competence centers, as well as major research projects and developed research strands within the selected countries. The main conclusions of this paper are that the work of researchers around Europe has not led to national adoption or European level strategies for learning analytics. Furthermore, most countries have not established national policies for learners’ data or guidelines that govern the ethical usage of data in research or education. We also conclude, that learning analytics research on pre-university level to high extent have been overlooked. In the same vein, learning analytics has not received enough focus form national and European national bodies. Such funding is necessary for taking steps towards data-driven development of education.

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<p class="0abstract">In this paper, we suggest an ecological perspective on the role of analytics in education. We discuss how different stakeholder positions in education points to different interests in using analytics. As a point of reference, we examine the Danish case of ICT integration in primary and lower secondary school (Danish: Folkeskolen) in order to study cases of emerging and at times conflicting stakeholder interests. On this basis, we discuss how this complexity of the educational ecosystem affects different stakeholder positions within the field.</p>

Due to the all-pervasive digital transformation of education, learning materials have developed considerably in terms of their form, function and content over recent decades. This development from print-based to digital formats carries with it a corresponding transformation of materiality that may not be apparent, yet plays an important role in shaping contemporary learning environments. Obviously, this transformation is of relevance for the design of learning materials and has implications for how we assess and study digital learning materials. However, the process of designing learning materials with a view to utilizing the many possibilities of contemporary digital technologies is no trivial task. Consequently, a focal point in the study of learning materials must concern the utilization of these new possibilities. For that purpose, we develop a framework for analyzing digital learning materials based on the notion of affordance. We use this framework to study how six courses from a widely used digital form of Danish L1 learning material integrate different kinds of affordances into their learning designs. Based on the results of our analysis, we also discuss the implications of this material transformation.

I løbet af de seneste årtier er tekster gået fra at være et overvejende analogt fænomen til at være et overvejende digitalt fænomen. I denne artikel diskuteres dels hvilke konsekvenser denne massive digitale transformation har for opfattelsen af tekster, tekstkvalitet og skriftsprog, dels de mulige implikationer for gymnasieskolens danskfag. Artiklen falder i tre dele: indledningsvis diskuteres begrebet digitale tekster med henblik på at afdække forskelle på og ligheder mellem gamle og nye teksttyper. Herefter demonstreres det gennem en række analytiske nedslag, hvordan et funktionelt perspektiv på genrer og registre dels kan danne afsæt for arbejdet med at forstå og beskrive de nye digitale tekstformer, dels kan danne afsæt for udviklingen af et begreb om tekstkvalitet, der bygger på en distinktion mellem henholdsvis succeskriterier og korrekthedskriterier. Endelig følger afslutningsvis en diskussion af, hvilke implikationer et sådant ændret perspektiv på brugen af skriftsproglige ressourcer kan og bør have for arbejdet med tekster og skriftlig fremstilling i gymnasiets danskfag.