The Concept of the "Quantitative Self" and Its Use in Developing Lifelong Learners

To develop as lifelong learners, students need to make use of self-regulation skills, which allow them to prepare, perform, and reflect on their learning. A Quantified Self approach, underpinned by Big Data, can offer a solution to providing personalised feedback that supports self-regulation at scale. Within the context of our project — my Personalised Adaptive Learning — we describe and discuss three stages of the Quantified Self approach: data collection, visualisation, and analytics. Based on our experiences we identify four overarching factors impacting the project. These factors inform the formulation of principles to guide the use of Big Data in Personalised Lifelong Learning.