Enabling Open Source, Open Data for Closed Source, Closed Data Learning Management Systems

Abstract

Learning analytics has attracted significant interest for research as well as implementation in education systems. Similar to other analytical approaches to improve underlying processes, the availability of raw data (open-data) of the learning process is paramount. Despite several open-sourced Learning Management System (LMS) solutions that enable an open access to data for learning analytics by/for stakeholders, commercially provided solutions prevalent in the education system in the U.S. are typically closed-source and closed-data. In this contribution, we provide an approach to enable open-sourced, open-data research and implementations within the confined environments of commercial closed-source, closed-data LMS implementations.