A New Era in Multimodal Learning Analytics: Twelve Core Commitments to Ground and Grow MMLA

Multimodal learning analytics (MMLA) has increasingly been a topic of discussion within the learning analytics community. The Society of Learning Analytics Research is home to the CrossMMLA Special Interest Group and regularly hosts workshops on MMLA during the Learning Analytics Summer Institute (LASI). In this paper, we articulate a set of 12 commitments that we believe are critical for creating effective MMLA innovations. Moreover, as MMLA grows in use, it is important to articulate a set of core commitments that can help guide both MMLA researchers and the broader learning analytics community. The commitments that we describe are deeply rooted in the origins of MMLA and also reflect the ways that MMLA has evolved over the past 10 years. We organize the 12 commitments in terms of (i) data collection, (ii) analysis and inference, and (iii) feedback and data dissemination and argue why these commitments are important for conducting ethical, high-quality MMLA research. Furthermore, in using the language of commitments, we emphasize opportunities for MMLA research to align with established qualitative research methodologies and important concerns from critical studies.

The trainees' perspective on developing an end-of-grant knowledge translation plan

BACKGROUND: Knowledge translation (KT) is a rapidly growing field that is becoming an integral part of research protocols.METHODS: This meeting report describes one group's experience at the 2009 KT Canada Summer Institute in developing an end-of-grant KT plan for a randomized control trial proposal.RESULTS: Included is a discussion of the process, challenges and recommendations from the trainee's perspective in developing an end-of-grant KT plan.CONCLUSION: New researchers should consider developing an end-of-grant KT plan with strategies that move beyond passive dissemination to incorporate innovative means of collaboration with the end user to craft the message, package the information and share the research findings with end users.

The trainees' perspective on developing an end-of-grant knowledge translation plan

BACKGROUND: Knowledge translation (KT) is a rapidly growing field that is becoming an integral part of research protocols.METHODS: This meeting report describes one group's experience at the 2009 KT Canada Summer Institute in developing an end-of-grant KT plan for a randomized control trial proposal.RESULTS: Included is a discussion of the process, challenges and recommendations from the trainee's perspective in developing an end-of-grant KT plan.CONCLUSION: New researchers should consider developing an end-of-grant KT plan with strategies that move beyond passive dissemination to incorporate innovative means of collaboration with the end user to craft the message, package the information and share the research findings with end users.

AMANSADOS PELA FÉ: REFLEXÕES SOBRE AS FACES DAS CONVERSÕES DOS PALIKUR

O artigo reflete sobre o processo de conversão dos Palikur, povo nativo do Estado do Amapá, ao catolicismo romano e, posteriormente, ao pentecostalismo a eles introduzido pelos missionários do Summer Institute of Linguistics (SIL). Resgatando considerações de Arnaud (1984), Capiberibe (2001) e Passes (1998) a respeito e empreendendo esforço de compreensão dos condicionantes que provavelmente contribuíram para a efetivação desse evento, além dos já mencionados pelos autores de base, o artigo propõe, na condição de outro explicador, a possibilidade de escolha como iniciativa dos próprios Palikur, percebendo-se que se mantém um sistema de costumes e crenças integrando a cosmologia palikur, por um lado, e a fé cristã manifesta no catolicismo romano e no pentecostalismo missionário, por outro, evento este que finda por se inscrever na esfera dos processos de hibridização cultural. Nota-se, por fim, que, a despeito disso, as sucessivas intervenções de natureza religiosa impactaram de maneira profunda a cosmologia ancestral palikur em favor de um ideal de evangelização resultado de interpretações unilaterais das narrativas bíblicas.

Epilogue

By the early twenty-first century, new music’s marketplace turn was complete, though Bang on a Can’s journey had only begun: in the past two decades, they have received Pulitzer Prizes and grown into a multi-faced, multi-million dollar organization. The three founders began writing more large-scale works, and Bang on a Can’s marathons at the World Financial Center expanded their audience and diversified their programming. With their summer institute in the Berkshires, Bang on a Can has cultivated their ethos among a new generation of entrepreneurial composers, including the prominent indie classical scene, while American new music has grown from a fringe phenomenon to a cottage industry. But in the wake of the Great Recession, younger musicians are emerging amidst a crowded and precarious market, in which opportunities proliferate but stability remains elusive.