ABSTRACT
This chapter explains the fundamental driver of all emergent feedback and therefore powerful data use: agency. Agency rarely emerges on its own at scale. A number of the examples shared so far have described teachers and students actively engaged in the educational enterprise, using tools, eliciting and acting on feedback, doing educational work. Jane Barrington is a professor in the science program in the Faculty of Education at Cape Southern University. Learning analytics from an emergent feedback perspective is embedded in agency and the context in which that agency is expressed. The learning management system (LMS) in the dentistry program at Cape Southern University has identified a number of students who are at risk of failing the first-year biochemistry course. Emergent feedback data is always local, proximal data, and all that changes is that the extent of this local context is increased via the networking of it with other agents.
