learning analytics. data-based decision making in learning environments
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Overview of Learning Analytics and its use to make decisions in learning environments. Talk given at the Sydney Teaching Colloquium.TRANSCRIPT
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Learning AnalyticsData-based decision makingin learning environments
Sydney Teaching ColloquiumSydney, 3 October 2013
Abelardo PardoThe University of Sydney
@abelardopardo
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Teaching is gettingincredibly complex
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Tool overload
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Humans are Subjective
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Mind Sights: Original Visual Illusions, Ambiguities, and Other Anomalies, With a Commentary on the Play of Mind in Perception and Art, Roger N. Shepard, 1990
“If you can not measure it,you can not improve it”
Lord Kelvin
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“We need betterevaluation toacknowledge andesteem excellencewhen it occurs, as itdoes.”
John Hattie. Visible Learning: A Synthesis of Over 800 Meta-AnalysisRelating to Achievement. Taylor & Francis, 2009
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Where should I focus?
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What works, andhow to do it!
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Learning Analytics
Measurement, collection, analysisand reporting of data about learnersand their contexts, for purposes ofunderstanding and optimizing learningand the environments in which itoccurs.
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(US Dept. of Education)
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(Campbell, De Blois, Oblinger 2007, Academic Analytics, EDUCAUSE)
Collect
Report
Predict
Act
Refine
The fivesteps ofanalytics
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Little
Data
Discipline in its early steps,
but with large potential.
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Use big data to reallyunderstand the student
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• Students at risk• Engagement• Performance
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Bookmarklet in your browser
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• First year engineering course.• Sessions with previous and in class activities.• Previous activities require interaction.
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Ask about Preparation
• Obtain feedback about the material
• Measure engagement
• Anticipate complications in lectureAbelardo Pardo Learning Analytics. Data-based Decision Making in Learning Environments 24
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Just in time teaching
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NLP to gauge emotional state
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Interventions
• Email• Special material• Suggest plan• Suggest actions• Office hours
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Data must come to you
Adopt formal approach to teaching
Use technology to reach interventions
Improvement through continuous evolution
Sean
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Learning AnalyticsData-based decision makingin learning environments
Sydney Teaching ColloquiumSydney, 3 October 2013
Abelardo PardoThe University of Sydney
@abelardopardo
slideshare.net/abelardo_pardo