learning analytics -towards a new discipline-

Learning Analytics- Towards a New Discipline-

Dragan GaševićEmail: dgasevic@acm.org

https://semtech.athabascau.ca

Social Web and PLEs are here!

Are we happy with the present in

learning and education?

How do we knowhow we are doing?

Topics to discuss

Learning environments today Learning analytics – definition Learning analytics –

approaches & challenges

Part ILearning Environments Today

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

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

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Evidence-based Education

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

The goal made up based on

Evidence-based BPM

Current best evidence from research to integrate with

practical experience and human values in the decision making process

Example

How to develop presentation skills in asynchronous course delivery?

Approach

“YouTube-like” to present

Students record their presentations and share with their peers

How to discuss such presentations?

By using discussion forums (in Moodle)

Participation in discussions is part of the course mark

Part IIILearning Analytics

Approaches and Challenges

Learning Analytics

What and how to collect and report?

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., "A Qualitative Evaluation of Evolution of a Learning Analytics Tool," Computers & Education, 2011 (in press), http://goo.gl/lCvMT

Visual learning analytics

Ubiquitous LA impossible w/o visualInformation overload

LOCO-Analyst

LOCO-Analyst

LOCO-Analyst

LOCO-Analyst

Student comprehension

Evaluation of LOCO-Analyst

Predictors of the perceived utility information about interactions of students

social networking students’ comprehension of content

collaborative tagging intuitiveness & ease-to-understand of

the presentation of the above two

Learning Analytics

What to measure?

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

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

Learning Analytics

How to analyze?

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

http://goo.gl/jtO3i

SNAPP

http://nodexl.codeplex.com/

http://www.processmining.org

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

Submission: October 16, 2011

Learning analytics

more meaningful & ubiquitous

with semantic technologies

Thank you!