Transcript Learning Analytics and Visualisation of Data Erwin Bomas Kennisnet [email protected] @ebomas Learning Analytics and Visualisation of Data Overview Masterclass • What is Learning Analytics (LA)? – What.

Learning Analytics
and Visualisation of Data
Erwin Bomas
Kennisnet
[email protected]
@ebomas
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Learning Analytics and Visualisation of Data Overview Masterclass
• What is Learning Analytics (LA)?
– What are current examples of LA?
• What is the role of visualisation?
• Workshop – opportunities for LA:
– What to analyze?
– How to visualise?
• What does LA imply for the role of the teacher?
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EEN PAARIS
VOORBEELDEN
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WHAT
LEARNING
ANALYTICS?
Learning Analytics definitions
• Learning analytics is the measurement, collection,
analysis and reporting of data about learners and their
contexts, for purposes of understanding and optimizing
learning and the environments in which it occurs
(LAK 2011)
• LA is about collecting traces that learners leave behind
and using those traces to improve learning
(Duval, LAK 2012)
http://dougclow.org/2011/02/28/the-learning-analytics-cycle/
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Examples of data that can be used
Data Generated by LMS
Data Generated by Instructor
Number of Times Resource Accessed
Grades on Discussion Forum
Date and Time of Access
Grades on Assignment
Number of Discussion Posts Generated
Grades on Tests
Number of Discussion Posts Read
Final Grades
Types of Resource Accessed
Number (and Type) of Questions Asked
in a Discussion Forum
…
Number of Emails Sent to Instructor
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Source: Dietz-Uhler & Hurn, Journal of Interactive Online Learning (2013)
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OPTIMIZING LEARNING BY
USING DATA IS APPLICABLE
TO THE PRIMARY PROCESS
(LEARNING AND TEACHING)
AS WELL AS THE
SECONDARY PROCESS
(ORGANIZATION OF
LEARNING)
Analytics on 3 levels
EXAMPLES
EEN PAAR VOORBEELDEN …
Example 1: Math Garden (NL)
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Garden Center - Analytics
Example 2: Khan Academy
Khan student dashboard
Khan teacher dashboard
Example 3:
Knewton
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Example 4: PulseOn (NL)
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• 2000 students and 200 teachers, with a vision that each student
is unique but with “middle of the road” course materials
• Three-phase approach of implementation of a ”personalized
learning platform”
• Students, teachers and management are reported to be very
positive and expanding the use of the platform
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Example 5: Learnbeat (NL)
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Example 6: Cum Laude / Magnaview
Summary
• Rapid development – a lot of new initiatives
every year
• Mostly new players – traditional textbook
publishers are not in the forefront
• Using both embedded and extracted analytics
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EEN PAAR
VOORBEELDEN …
DATA
VISUALISATION
www.worldmapper.org
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Worldmapper.org
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Worldmapper.org
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Worldmapper.org
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Billion dollar-o-gram (McCandless)
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http://listen.hatnote.com/
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The River of Myths…
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OwII-dwh-bk
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LA: two approaches (Duval & Verbert, 2012)
• Educational Data Mining
• Information visualization
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Two approaches for Learning Analytics
• Educational Data Mining – big data, business analytics
• Information visualization – Quantified Self
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Two approaches for Learning Analytics
• Educational Data Mining – big data, business analytics
– What data do you have available?
• Information visualization – Quantified Self
– What are the needs of the learner/teacher?
How can this be visualized?
– What data is needed?
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EEN
PAAR
VOORBEELDEN
THE
ROLE
OF THE…
TEACHER IN LA
The teacher as a data analist?
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Research issues (Duval & Verbert, 2012)
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What are meaningful traces?
How to visualise? Beware for eye candy
Assessing learning impact is hard
‘Become what you measure’ (compare to teaching to
the test)
5. Handling huge data sets
6. Privacy
7. Enslaving instead of empowering
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Work Package 4: Schools – Objectives
• Bring together disparate communities with
related interests
• Capture and disseminate the latest thinking on
learning analytics in practice
• Analyse significant developments and issues in
the domain and produce reports
• Identify, collect and synthesise claims and
evidence for the benefits of learning analytics
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www.laceproject.eu
@laceproject
Main references
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http://www.laceproject.eu/blog/infographic-learning-analytics/
http://dougclow.org/2011/02/28/the-learning-analytics-cycle
http://eleed.campussource.de/archive/8/3336
https://lirias.kuleuven.be/bitstream/123456789/315113/1
http://www.worldmapper.org
http://seealso.org/
http://www.informationisbeautiful.net
http://www.gapminder.org/videos/the-river-of-myths/
http://blog.profitbricks.com/39-data-visualization-tools-for-big-data/
http://www.kennisnet.nl/fileadmin/contentelementen/kennisnet/mbo/Publicaties/Publi
catie_Big_data.pdf (Nederlands)
[email protected]
@ebomas
This work was undertaken as part of the LACE Project, supported by the European Commission Seventh
Framework Programme, grant 619424.
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