learning analytics. online learning. transformative global education.
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., 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.
Macfadyen, L. P., Alabi, H., & Thompson, C. (2021, July 22).
Learning analytics in the COVID era.
EduBytes. CTLT Newsletter, The University of British Columbia.
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Lang, C., Macfadyen, L. P., Slade, S., Prinsloo, P. & Sclater, N. (2018).
The Complexities of Developing a Personal Code of Ethics for Learning Analytics Practitioners: Implications for Institutions and the Field.
In Proceedings of the Eighth International Conference on Learning Analytics and Knowledge, March 7–9, 2018, Sydney, NSW, Australia. ACM, New York, NY, USA, 5 pages. https://doi.org/10.1145/3170358.3170396Â
Leah P. Macfadyen 