learning analytics. online learning. transformative global education.
Macfadyen, L. P. (2020).
Using Quantext for curriculum analysis. In J. McDonald, A. Moskal, C. Gunn, & I. Elgort (Eds.), Quantext pilot study. Project report. Ako Aotearoa. https://ako.ac.nz/assets/Knowledge-centre/Quantext-For-rapid-analysis-of-student-responses-to-short-answer-questions/Quantext.pdf
Dewell,S., Birch, P., Cremin, C., Guimond, C., & Macfadyen, L. P. (2025, November).
A novel genomics educational resource for nurse practitioners.
ISONG World Congress, Montreal, Canada.
Guimond, C., Cremin, C., Dewell, S., Macfadyen, L. P., & Birch, P. (2025, October).
Integrating genomics into a Canadian Nurse Practitioner curriculum: A genetics-led pilot project.
CAGC & CCMG Joint Annual Scientific Meeting, Banff, Canada, October 5-8.
Cremin, C., Guimond, C., DeBruin, E., Macfadyen, L. P., Dewell, S., & Birch, P. (2025, October).
Keys to sustainable online genomics education: Strategies for long-term impact.
CAGC & CCMG Joint Annual Scientific Meeting, Banff, Canada, October 5-8.
Dewell, S., Tonkin, E., Calzone, K., Dwyer, A., Badzek, L., Himes, D. O., Lucas, R., Dungan, J., Davis, S., Walker, T., Birch, P., Cremin, C., Guimond, C., & Macfadyen, L. P. (2025, July).
Integrating genomics into nursing education.
36th International Nursing Research Congress 2025, Seattle, USA.
Dewell, S., Birch, P., Macfadyen, L. P., Guimond, C. & Cremin, C. (2025, June).
Advancing excellence in precision health through innovative nurse practitioner education.
19th Annual BC Nurse Practitioner Conference, Kelowna, BC.
Macfadyen, L. P., Morales, E., & Roche, J. (2025).
Culture and communication in digital worlds. https://digitalcultures.ca
This dynamic website and open educational resource (OER) shares the outcomes of an ongoing academic project on culture, communication, and digital technologies. It includes a growing, searchable collection of research, an invitation to contribute new work, and our 2025 review of the field.
Macfadyen, L. P., Birch, P. Guimond, C., Cremin, C., & Dewell, S. (2025).
Genetics and genomics for nurse practitioners.
See: https://blogs.ubc.ca/npedge/
A collection of learning materials for nurse practitioner education and NP professional development.
Macfadyen, L. P., Morales, E., & Roche, J. (2025).
Culture and communication in digital worlds. A scoping review of literature from the Third Age of internet studies.
The University of British Columbia. https://doi.org/10.14288/r5xm-qn87
What happens when people from different cultural backgrounds try to communicate using digital technologies? This review offers a roadmap and thematic analysis of literature we compiled from 2003-2023. In it, we consider what research is telling us about whether digital communication technologies represent new opportunities, new threats, or both, for human cultures.
Beaudoin, M.-S., & Macfadyen, L. P. (2026).
Self-regulated learning skills contribute to academic success and academic resilience in first-year students enrolled in an online physiology course.
Canadian Journal for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, 17(1).
Macfadyen, L. P. & Myers, A. (2023).
The “IKEA model” for pragmatic development of a custom learning analytics dashboard.
In T. Cochrane, V. Narayan, C. Brown, K. MacCallum, E. Bone, C. Deneen, R. Vanderburg, & B. Hurren (Eds.), People, partnerships and pedagogies. Proceedings ASCILITE 2023. Christchurch (pp. 482-486). https://doi.org/10.14742/apubs.2023.465
Macfadyen, L. P. (2023).
Integrating Indigenous pedagogies into online learning.
A web-based learning design resource for educators.
This web-based resource guides users through the elements of the 5Rs model, and offers ideas, themes, resources and example activities that can be included in the design of online courses. Short videos offer insights and suggestions from Indigenous and non-Indigenous colleagues engaged in this work.
Zumrawi, A. A. & Macfadyen, L. P. (2023).
Proposed metrics for summarizing student evaluation of teaching data from balanced Likert scale surveys.
Cogent Education, 10(2), https://doi.org/10.1080/2331186X.2023.2254665
Macfadyen, L. P., Austin, J., Cao, P., Cheng, J., Cremin, C., Duong, L., Elliott, A. M., Guimond, C., Lim, S., Race,S., Rajan-Babu, I.-S., Richardson, A.,Wainstein, T., Zahir, F., & Birch, P. H. (2023).
A novel online genomic counselling and variant interpretation certificate: Learning design, learning analytics, and evaluation.
Journal of Genetic Counselling, 32, 1280–1. https://doi.org/10.1002/jgc4.1737
Banihashem, S. K., Noroozi, O., van Ginkel, S., Macfadyen, L. P., & Biemans, H. J. A. (2022).
A systematic review of the role of learning analytics in enhancing feedback practices in higher education.
Educational Research Review, 100489. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.edurev.2022.100489
Macfadyen, L. P., Birch, P. H., Duong, L., Cao, P., Race, S., Cremin, C., Guimond, C., & Zahir, F. (2021).
Using learning analytics to optimize design of online learning courses in genomic counselling.
Oral presentation, World Congress on Genetic Counselling (Virtual Conference), 27–28 October 2021.
Macfadyen, L. P., Alabi, H., & Thompson, C. (2021, July 22).
Learning analytics in the COVID era.
EduBytes. CTLT Newsletter, The University of British Columbia.
Banihashem, K. & Macfadyen, L. P. (2021).
Pedagogical design: Bridging learning theory and learning analytics.
Canadian Journal of Learning and Technology, 47(1), https://doi.org/10.21432/cjlt27959
Macfadyen, L. P, Lockyer, L., & Rienties, B. (2020).
Learning design and learning analytics: Snapshot 2020.
Journal of Learning Analytics, 7 (3), 6-12. https://doi.org/10.18608/jla.2020.73.2
Redmond, D. W. & Macfadyen, L. P. (2020).
A framework to leverage and mature learning ecosystems.
International Journal of Emerging Technologies in Learning (iJET), 15(5), 75-99. http://dx.doi.org/10.3991/ijet.v15i05.11898
Macfadyen, L. P. & Roll, I. (2016).
Analytics in action: Research, prototypes and implemented solutions.
Prepared for UBC’s LTHub.
Macfadyen, L. P., Roll, I. & Sandilands. (2015).
Using easily accessible aggregate LMS and SEoT data to evaluate learning design, learner engagement and perceived course value.
In Proceedings, Society for Teaching and Learning in Higher Education, Simon Fraser University and The University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada, June 16-19, 2015.
Roll, I., Macfadyen, L. P. & Sandilands, D. (2015).
Evaluating the Relationship Between Course Structure, Learner Activity, and Perceived Value of Online Courses.
In Proceedings, Second (2015) ACM Conference on Learning @ Scale, Vancouver, BC, Canada, March 14-18, 2015.
Macfadyen, L. P., & Dawson, S. (2012).
Numbers Are Not Enough. Why e-Learning Analytics Failed to Inform an Institutional Strategic Plan.
Educational Technology & Society, 15 (3), 149–163.
Dawson, S., Macfadyen, L. P., Risko, E., Foulsham, T. & Kingstone, A. (2012).
Using technology to encourage self-directed learning: The Collaborative Lecture Annotation System.
In Proceedings, ASCILITE 2012, Wellington, New Zealand, November 2012.
Macfadyen, L. P. & Hewling, A. (2011).
How the earth moved. ‘Difference’ and transformative learning in an online course on global citizenship.
In R. Land & S. Bayne (Eds.), Digital Differences: Perspectives on Online Education. Rotterdam: Sense Publishers.
Dawson, S., Macfadyen, L. P., Lockyer, L. & Mazzochi-Jones, D. (2010).
From neural to social: Medical student admissions criteria and engagement in a social learning environment.
(ASCILITE 2010, Sydney, Australia, December 2010).
Sorenson, P. & Macfadyen, L.P. (2010).
The Learner Interaction Monitoring System (LiMS): Capturing Online Learner Behaviour.
(In J. Sanchez & K. Zhang (Eds.), Proceedings of World Conference on E-Learning in Corporate, Government, Healthcare, and Higher Education 2010 (p. 2725), October 18, 2010. Chesapeake, VA: AACE.)
Sorenson, P. & Macfadyen, L. P. (2010).
Learner Interaction Monitoring System (LiMS): Capturing the Behaviors of Online Learners and Evaluating Online Training Courses.
(6th Designs on eLearning Conference, Savannah, Georgia, USA, September 15-17, 2010).
Macfadyen, L. P. (2010).
Current State Analysis of LMS and Web-based Tool Use in UBC Teaching and Learning Activities. Stage 1 Report: Blackboard Vista use data/data gathering on use of other tools, 2009W.
Prepared for the UBC Learning Technology Advisory Committee.
Macfadyen, L. P. & Sorenson, P. (2010).
Learner Interaction Monitoring System (LiMS): Capturing the Behaviors of Online Learners and Evaluating Online Training Courses.
(6th International Conference on Data Mining, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA, July 12-15, 2010)
Macfadyen, L. P. & Sorenson, P. (2010).
Using LiMS (the Learner Interaction Monitoring System) to Track Online Learner Engagement and Evaluate Course Design.
(Proceedings, Third International Conference on Educational Data Mining (pp. 301-302), Pittsburg, PA, USA, June 11-13, 2010).
Dawson, S., Macfadyen, L. P. & Lockyer, L. (2009).
Learning or performance: Predicting drivers of student motivation.
(ASCILITE 2009, Auckland, New Zealand, December 2009.)
Macfadyen, L. P. (2009).
Using Course Management System Data as a Force for Good? Applying Academic Analytics to Teaching and Learning.
(Institute for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning seminar series, UBC)
Macfadyen, L. P., & Dawson, S. (2010).
Mining LMS data to develop an ‘‘early warning system” for educators: A proof of concept.
Computers & Education, 54:588-599. doi:10.1016/j.compedu.2009.09.008
Macfadyen, L. P. (2009).
Being and learning in the online classroom: Linguistic practices and ritual text acts.
In M. N. Lamy & R. Goodfellow (Eds.), Learning Cultures in Online Education. UK: Continuum Press.
Swanson, D., Jones, S., Macfadyen, L. P. & O’Donovan, T. (2008).
How the Earth Moved: Transformative Learning in an Online International Course on Global Citizenship.
(Canadian Society for the Study of Education (CSSE) National Conference on Education, The University of British Columbia, Vancouver, June 2008.)
Swanson, D., Macfadyen, L. P., O’Donovan, T., Fuller, J., O’Connor, B., Cox, A., Avasadanond, B., Land-Murphy, J., Chin, A. (2008).
Narratives of transformation: Critical reflections on pedagogy and practice in/through an international online course on global citizenship.
(Global Citizenship Education and Post Secondary Institutions: Policies, Practices and Possibilities. Edmonton, Alberta, October 2008.)
Berger, G., Abdi, A., Ahimbisibwe, D., Swanson, D., Macfadyen, L. P., Jones, S. & O’Donovan, T. (2008).
A FAILURE OF (IN)SIGHT?: Re-imagining global discourses and public policies on development, poverty, literacy, ICT, media and education from developing country contexts.
(Canadian Society for the Study of Education (CSSE) National Conference on Education, Vancouver, British Columbia, June 2008.)
Macfadyen, L. P. (2008).
Constructing ethnicity and identity in the online classroom: Linguistic practices and ritual text acts.
(Networked Learning Conference 2008, Greece, May 2008).
Macfadyen, L. P. (2007).
Global Village, Global Classroom, Global Citizen?
(Canadian Association for Distance Education, International Conference: “Connecting in the Global Village/Connexions dans le village planétaire”, Winnipeg, Manitoba, June 2007.)
Macfadyen, L. P. & Hewling, A. (2007).
How the earth moved. ‘Difference’ and transformative learning in an online course on global citizenship.
(Ideas in Cyberspace Education 3: “Digital Difference”, Ross Priory, Loch Lomond, Scotland, March 21-23).
Macfadyen, L. P. (2006).
Virtual Ethnicity: The new digitization of place, body, language, and memory.
Electronic Magazine of Multicultural Education, 8 (1).
Macfadyen, L. P. & Hewling, A. (2006).
Teaching Towards Social and Ecological Justice Online: Introduction to Global Citizenship at UBC.
(3rd Annual Conference of the International Society for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning: “Making a Greater Difference: Connecting to Transformational Agendas”, Washington, DC, USA, November 9-12).
Macfadyen, L. P. (2005).
Teaching Global Citizenship Online
(UBC e-Strategy Town Hall, June 2005.)
Macfadyen, L. P., Janes, D. & Hawkes, B. (2004).
K-12 Teachers and Learners in an Electronic World: A Review of the Literature. Part II: Learner Issues in ICT-mediated Learning.
Prepared for the Vancouver School Board, Vancouver.
Janes, D., Macfadyen, L. P. & Hawkes, B. (2004).
K-12 Teachers and Learners in an Electronic World: A Review of the Literature. Part I: Context, Learning Outcomes and Pedagogical Implications.
Prepared for the Vancouver School Board, Vancouver.
Reeder, K., Macfadyen, L. P., Chase, M. and Roche, J. (2004).
Negotiating Culture in Cyberspace: Participation Patterns and Problematics.
Language Learning and Technology , 8(2): 88-105.
Macfadyen, L. P., Roche, J. & Doff, S. (2004).
Communicating across Cultures in Cyberspace: A Bibliographical Review of Online Intercultural Communication.
Hamburg: Lit-Verlag.
Macfadyen, L. P. (2004).
Intercultural Challenges in Networked Learning.
Guest lecture (by videoconference), University of Kalmar, Sweden.
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