To me, 'metadata' is a confusing word for this type of data. People in the ed-tech space have begun calling this type of data 'paradata' [1] because it sits be

To me, 'metadata' is a confusing word for this type of data. People in the ed-tech space have begun calling this type of data 'paradata' [1] because it sits beside the data. This helps make it distinct from metadata. Metadata then describes the data itself (tags, classifications, etc.), whereas paradata describes the data's lifecycle and use (e.g. who used it where and when how, etc). [1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paradata_%28Learning_Resource_Analytics%29 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paradata_%28Learning_Resource_A...