{"title":"Attention please!: learning analytics for visualization and recommendation","authors":"E. Duval","doi":"10.1145/2090116.2090118","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/2090116.2090118","url":null,"abstract":"This paper will present the general goal of and inspiration for our work on learning analytics, that relies on attention metadata for visualization and recommendation. Through information visualization techniques, we can provide a dashboard for learners and teachers, so that they no longer need to \"drive blind\". Moreover, recommendation can help to deal with the \"paradox of choice\" and turn abundance from a problem into an asset for learning.","PeriodicalId":150927,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Learning Analytics and Knowledge","volume":"105 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-02-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122428722","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Cultural considerations in learning analytics","authors":"Ravikiran Vatrapu","doi":"10.1145/2090116.2090136","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/2090116.2090136","url":null,"abstract":"This paper discusses empirical findings demonstrating cultural influences in social behavior, communication, cognition, technology enhanced learning and draws implications for learning analytics.","PeriodicalId":150927,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Learning Analytics and Knowledge","volume":"54 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-02-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124816895","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Stepping out of the box: towards analytics outside the learning management system","authors":"A. Pardo, C. D. Kloos","doi":"10.1145/2090116.2090142","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/2090116.2090142","url":null,"abstract":"Most of the current learning analytic techniques have as starting point the data recorded by Learning Management Systems (LMS) about the interactions of the students with the platform and among themselves. But there is a tendency on students to rely less on the functionality offered by the LMS and use more applications that are freely available on the net. This situation is magnified in studies in which students need to interact with a set of tools that are easily installed on their personal computers. This paper shows an approach using Virtual Machines by which a set of events occurring outside of the LMS are recorded and sent to a central server in a scalable and unobtrusive manner.","PeriodicalId":150927,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Learning Analytics and Knowledge","volume":"109 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-02-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122553843","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Redefining dropping out in online higher education: a case study from the UOC","authors":"Josep Grau-Valldosera, J. Minguillón","doi":"10.1145/2090116.2090125","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/2090116.2090125","url":null,"abstract":"In recent years, studies into the reasons for dropping out of online higher education have been undertaken with greater regularity, parallel to the rise in the relative weight of this type of education, compared with brick-and-mortar education. However, the work invested in characterising the students who drop out of education, compared with those who do not, appears not to have had the same relevance as that invested in the analysis of the causes. The definition of dropping out is very sensitive to the context. In this article, we reach a purely empirical definition of student dropping out, based on the probability of not continuing a specific academic programme following several consecutive semesters of \"theoretical break\". Dropping out should be properly defined before analysing its causes, as well as comparing the drop-out rates between the different online programmes, or between online and on-campus ones. Our results show that there are significant differences among programmes, depending on their theoretical extension, but not their domain of knowledge.","PeriodicalId":150927,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Learning Analytics and Knowledge","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-02-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125367939","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"AAT: a tool for accessing and analysing students' behaviour data in learning systems","authors":"S. Graf, C. Ives, Nazim Rahman, Arnold Ferri","doi":"10.1145/2090116.2090145","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/2090116.2090145","url":null,"abstract":"In online learning environments, teachers and course designers often get little feedback about how students actually interact with and learn in online courses. Most of the learning systems used by educational institutions store comprehensive log data associated with students' behaviours and actions. However, these systems typically reveal or report on very general and limited information based on this data. In order to provide teachers and course designers with more detailed and meaningful information about students' behaviour and their use of learning resources within online courses, an analytics tool has been developed. The tool incorporates functionality to access and analyse data related to students' behaviours in learning systems. This tool can provide valuable information about students' learning processes allowing the identification of difficult or inappropriate learning material, and can therefore significantly contribute to the design of improved student support activities and resources.","PeriodicalId":150927,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Learning Analytics and Knowledge","volume":"10 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-02-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125299143","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Revisiting formative evaluation: dynamic monitoring for the improvement of learning activity design and delivery","authors":"Griff Richards, Irwin Devries","doi":"10.1145/2090116.2090141","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/2090116.2090141","url":null,"abstract":"Distance education courses have a tradition of a formative evaluation cycle that takes place before a course is formally delivered. This paper discusses opportunities for improving online and blended learning by collecting formative data during course presentation. With a goal of overall improvement in instructional effectiveness and identification of promising practices for inclusion in a learning activities design library, we propose the immediate and on-going monitoring of the effectiveness of learning activities, tutor facilitation and learner satisfaction during the course presentation. This has implications for constructively involving the learners and facilitators in the course improvement process. While originally conceived to reduce the time for pilot evaluation of new courses and learning activities, the proposed system could also be extended to individualized and blended learning environments, and if implemented using semantic web technologies, for research into the effectiveness of learning activity patterns.","PeriodicalId":150927,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Learning Analytics and Knowledge","volume":"20 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-02-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126797116","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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