Leverhulme Lecture - Quantitative Ethnography: Human Science in the Age of Big Data
| Dates: | 28 February 2024 |
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| Times: | 13:00 - 14:00 |
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| What is it: | Lecture |
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| Organiser: | School of Environment, Education and Development |
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| Who is it for: | University staff |
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| Speaker: | Professor David Williamson Shaffer |
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The Digital Technologies, Communication & Education (DTCE) and Education & Psychology (EP) research and scholarship groups in Manchester Institute of Education (MIE) will be co-hosting Professor David Williamson Shaffer, University of Wisconsin-Madison, as part of a Leverhulme International Professorship visit.
David’s research on merging statistical and qualitative methods to construct fair models of complex and collaborative human activity is internationally recognised. He has authored more than 250 publications with over 100 co-authors, including How Computer Games Help Children Learn and Quantitative Ethnography (which introduced Epistemic Network Analysis).
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Speaker
Professor David Williamson Shaffer
Organisation: University of Wisconsin-Madison
Biography: David Williamson Shaffer is the Sears Bascom Professor of Learning Analytics and the Vilas Distinguished Achievement Professor of Learning Sciences at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and a Data Philosopher at the Wisconsin Center for Education Research. His M.S. and Ph.D. are from the Media Laboratory at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and before coming to the University of Wisconsin, he was a teacher, teacher-trainer, curriculum developer, and game designer. Professor Shaffer’s current work focuses on merging statistical and qualitative methods to construct fair models of complex and collaborative human activity. He has authored more than 250 publications with over 100 co-authors, including How Computer Games Help Children Learn and Quantitative Ethnography.
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Ellen Wilkinson Building
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