Thank you! This is just the sort of space I need — definitely feeling a bit overwhelmed and I have more experience in the K-12 education realm than at the university level, so that’s a bit different too. Agreed that (for my level) Tanya’s piece was the most accessible of the first three readings. Here are some ?s I had on this piece: on p.3, in the paragraph beginning with Goldstein and Katz, she contrasts academic analytics with educational data mining – I’m not following the difference. Are these really contrasting terms? Aren’t they both trying to make sense of the oceans of learner/learning related data? (Our first reading, after all, is entitled “The State of Educational Data Mining.”) Later, on p.9, she writes of the Collective Applications Model. What’s a collective application? Can you provide an example? On p. 11, in the Dawson quote, what’s an ICT? (I don’t know what other newbies think, but I would love a LAK glossary.) On p. 12, I’d be interested in a definition and more examples of digital dashboards, since that term’s come up more than once already (“performance dashoards” in the Goldstein reading). Also, a couple terminology questions from the end of the Goldstein piece — on p.11 — what are “shadow systems” And, in the Summary, what’s “ERP”? Anyhow, again, thanks, and I’m with Alan — as a Facebook hound, I Like this 🙂