Samantha Ahern
Samantha is an experienced educator, technologist and creator. She has held roles in IT education both as a secondary school educator and professional IT trainer, and was a Senior Information Security Officer (Awareness). She is well qualified with a PGDip in ICT in Education and MSc in Intelligent Systems, plus is an Associate of ISC^2 (CISSP). She is currently working on an Exploratory Learning Analytics project for University College London.
Samantha tweets at @2standandstare.
Talks I've Given
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Informing the Caterpillar While Being Mindful of the Crocodile
Featuring Samantha Ahern
Students' mental wellbeing is a growing area of concern for HEIs. You have seen large increases in students declaring a mental health condition upon admission to UK universities. Is this just the tip of the iceberg?
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Ethical conumdrums of an educational data scientist - Beginners
Featuring Samantha Ahern
Join Samantha for a lightning talk exploring the joy and pain of working on an exploratory learning anaytics project in HE. Joy of having lots of data to play with and access to some cool toys e.g. HPC, and the pain of data cleansing, ethics and IG compliance.
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InfinteConf Bytes with Samantha Ahern!
Featuring Samantha Ahern
Learning analytics is a growing field both as an area of academic research and as a mean for learning institutions to improve teaching and learning. Come and join Samantha where you will explore an overview of the field of learning analytics, the current state of play and the conundrums faced by...
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