learning analytics - a new discipline and bits of semantics

Learning Analytics- A New Discipline and Bits of Semantics -

Dragan Gašević@dgasevic

https://semtech.athabascau.ca

http://goo.gl/8foQa

Age of Social Media and

Learning

How do we knowhow we are doing?

Topics to discuss

Learning – today, tomorrow… Learning analytics – definition Learning analytics –

approaches & challenges with bits of semantics

Part ILearning Today, Tomorrow

Today’s idea of “learning”

Learning Paths

http://www.w3.org/2006/Talks/1023-sb-W3CTechSemWeb/DataServicesWebAppMetro2.jpg

Educational Ecosystems

Authoring

Reusability

Packaging

Educators

ReusabilityAdaptivityEvolutionCollaboration with educators and students

Educational Ecosystems

Authoring

Reusability

Packaging

Educators

Feedback

Learning and Collaborating

PersonalizationAdaptivityContext-awarenessSocial interaction…

Learners

Educational Ecosystems

Authoring

Reusability

Packaging Learning and Collaborating

Community

Peer-Review

Presenting

Administration

Mobile

Educators Learners

Learning (Life) not in a box!

A small part of a software engineer’s life

Learning ecosystem

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A small part of a software engineer’s life

Three Generation of Distance Education Pedagogies

Anderson, T. & Dron, J. (2011) Three Generations of Distance Education Pedagogy, International Review of Research in Open and Distance Learning 12(3), 80-97, http://goo.gl/j3mRF

Part IILearning Analytics

A systematic change needed!

Learning Analytics – What?

Measurement, collection, analysis, and reporting of data

about learners and their contexts

Learning Analytics – Why?

Understanding and optimising learning and the environments

in which learning occurs

http://solaresearch.org/OpenLearningAnalytics.pdf

Evidence-based Education

As the integration of best research evidence with practitioner expertise and stakeholder values

The goal made up based on

Part IIILearning Analytics

Approaches and Challenges- with bits of semantics -

Learning Analytics

What and how to collect?

Measurement, collection, analysis, and reporting of data about learners and their contexts

Ubiquitous learning analytics

Tool and format independent Aggregates and integrates

Semantic Web

Ontologies: Interconnecting applications Shared domain conceptualizations

Linked Data

http://richard.cyganiak.de/2007/10/lod/

Linked Data

http://richard.cyganiak.de/2007/10/lod/

“A crazy problem requires a crazy solution!”

(Griff Richards, 2005)

Learning Context Ontology: LOCO

Jovanović, J., Knight, C., Gašević, D., Richards, G., "Learning Object Context on the Semantic Web," 6th IEEE International Conference on Advanced Learning Technologies, Kerkrade, The Netherlands, 2006 pp. 669-673 (Best paper award).

Education Social Semantic Web

Combining Social and Semantic Web aspects OAST and LOCO-Analyst

LOCO-Analyst

Formative Evaluation

Category Sub-category Q8

Suggestions for improving

Visualization/GUI 77.8%

Annotations 5.66%

Other Features 11.11%

No suggestions but liked

Data Visualization -

Interface Design 5.56%

Annotations -

Ali, L., Hatala, M. Gašević, D., Jovanović, J. (2012). A Qualitative Evaluation of Evolution of a Learning Analytics Tool. Computers & Education, 58(1) 470-489, http://goo.gl/lCvMT

Learning Analytics

What and how to report?

Measurement, collection, analysis, and reporting of data about learners and their contexts

Visual learning analytics

Ubiquitous LA impossible w/o visualInformation overload

LOCO-Analyst

LOCO-Analyst

LOCO-Analyst

LOCO-Analyst

Student comprehension

Learning Analytics Acceptance Model

Inspired by Venkatesh, V., Morris, M. G., Davis, G. B., & Davis, F. D., 2003. User acceptance of information technology: Toward a unified view. MIS Quarterly, (27:3), pp. 425-478.

Learning Analytics Acceptance Model

Learning Analytics

What to measure?

Measurement, collection, analysis, and reporting of data about learners and their contexts

Learning Analytics for Community of Inquiry

Effects of instructional interventions

Example: Role playing (invited expert and moderation) with explicit instructions how to contribute

http://learningworksforkids.com/EF/metacognition.html

Social Learning Analytics forSelf-regulated Workplace Learning

Siadaty, M., Gašević, D., Jovanović, J., Milikić, N., Jeremić, N., Ali, L., Giljanović, A., Hatala, M., "Learn-B: Social Analytics Tool for Self-regulated Workplace Learning," In Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Learning Analytics and Knowledge, 2012 (in press), http://goo.gl/Vm8tv

Social Learning Analytics forSelf-regulated Workplace Learning

Siadaty, M., Gašević, D., Jovanović, J., Milikić, N., Jeremić, N., Ali, L., Giljanović, A., Hatala, M., "Learn-B: Social Analytics Tool for Self-regulated Workplace Learning," In Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Learning Analytics and Knowledge, 2012 (in press), http://goo.gl/Vm8tv

Social Learning Analytics forSelf-regulated Workplace Learning

Siadaty, M., Gašević, D., Jovanović, J., Milikić, N., Jeremić, N., Ali, L., Giljanović, A., Hatala, M., "Learn-B: Social Analytics Tool for Self-regulated Workplace Learning," In Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Learning Analytics and Knowledge, 2012 (in press), http://goo.gl/Vm8tv

Learning Analytics

How to analyze?

Measurement, collection, analysis, and reporting of data about learners and their contexts

Measuring Cognitive Presence

Text mining and linked data

A very similar text-mining problem is spam classification.Sure, sounds funny, but computing is a strange affair !

http://www.cs.waikato.ac.nz/ml/weka

Cognition and meta-cognition

Discovering learning processes

http://www.processmining.org

http://goo.gl/jtO3i

SNAPP

http://nodexl.codeplex.com/

April 29 – May 2, 2012Vancouver, BC, Canada

Early registration: Tomorrow, Feb 15, 2012http://lak12.sites.olt.ubc.ca/registration/

http://linkededucation.org

Linked Learning 2012 @ WWW 2012 Submission registration: Friday, Feb 17, 2012http://lile2012.linkededucation.org/

Learning analytics

more meaningful & ubiquitous

with semantic technologies

Thank you!