{"title":"Crafting transformative strategies for personalized learning/analytics","authors":"L. Baer, A. Duin, D. Norris, Robert Brodnick","doi":"10.1145/2460296.2460354","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/2460296.2460354","url":null,"abstract":"Personalized learning environments and learning analytics hold the promise to transform learning experiences, enhance and accelerate student success, and \"open up\" student learning to resources and experiences from outside individual institutions. To achieve their potential, personalized learning projects must move beyond individual, stand-alone projects or innovations to reshaping the institutional experience.\u0000 Learning science must connect with learning pedagogy and design. Learners and institutions must have access to tools and resources that assist in customizing student progress and supplemental learning needs. Teachers and faculty must be empowered to provide teaching and learning environments that allow individual students to thrive. All this will require unique partnerships and collaborations within and across institutions, incorporating the best learning science findings and bridging with public and private entities developing the learning and analytic tools to support personalized learning.\u0000 Crafting a strategy to embrace and sustain the transformative power of personalized learning systems will require strong leadership and clear planning models to align with institutional planning and future investments.","PeriodicalId":162301,"journal":{"name":"International Conference on Learning Analytics and Knowledge","volume":"5 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-04-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133556839","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}
Z. Pardos, R. Baker, M. O. S. Pedro, S. M. Gowda, Supreeth M. Gowda
{"title":"Affective states and state tests: investigating how affect throughout the school year predicts end of year learning outcomes","authors":"Z. Pardos, R. Baker, M. O. S. Pedro, S. M. Gowda, Supreeth M. Gowda","doi":"10.1145/2460296.2460320","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/2460296.2460320","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper, we investigate the correspondence between student affect in a web-based tutoring platform throughout the school year and learning outcomes at the end of the year, on a high-stakes mathematics exam. The relationships between affect and learning outcomes have been previously studied, but not in a manner that is both longitudinal and finer-grained. Affect detectors are used to estimate student affective states based on post-hoc analysis of tutor log-data. For every student action in the tutor the detectors give us an estimated probability that the student is in a state of boredom, engaged concentration, confusion, and frustration, and estimates of the probability that they are exhibiting off-task or gaming behaviors. We ran the detectors on two years of log-data from 8th grade student use of the ASSISTments math tutoring system and collected corresponding end of year, high stakes, state math test scores for the 1,393 students in our cohort. By correlating these data sources, we find that boredom during problem solving is negatively correlated with performance, as expected; however, boredom is positively correlated with performance when exhibited during scaffolded tutoring. A similar pattern is unexpectedly seen for confusion. Engaged concentration and frustration are both associated with positive learning outcomes, surprisingly in the case of frustration.","PeriodicalId":162301,"journal":{"name":"International Conference on Learning Analytics and Knowledge","volume":"12 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-04-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124795969","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":"Improving retention: predicting at-risk students by analysing clicking behaviour in a virtual learning environment","authors":"A. Wolff, Z. Zdráhal, A. Nikolov, Michal Pantucek","doi":"10.1145/2460296.2460324","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/2460296.2460324","url":null,"abstract":"One of the key interests for learning analytics is how it can be used to improve retention. This paper focuses on work conducted at the Open University (OU) into predicting students who are at risk of failing their module. The Open University is one of the worlds largest distance learning institutions. Since tutors do not interact face to face with students, it can be difficult for tutors to identify and respond to students who are struggling in time to try to resolve the difficulty. Predictive models have been developed and tested using historic Virtual Learning Environment (VLE) activity data combined with other data sources, for three OU modules. This has revealed that it is possible to predict student failure by looking for changes in user's activity in the VLE, when compared against their own previous behaviour, or that of students who can be categorised as having similar learning behaviour. More focused analysis of these modules applying the GUHA (General Unary Hypothesis Automaton) method of data analysis has also yielded some early promising results for creating accurate hypothesis about students who fail.","PeriodicalId":162301,"journal":{"name":"International Conference on Learning Analytics and Knowledge","volume":"4 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-04-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116820746","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":"Considering formal assessment in learning analytics within a PLE: the HOU2LEARN case","authors":"Eleni Koulocheri, M. Xenos","doi":"10.1145/2460296.2460304","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/2460296.2460304","url":null,"abstract":"Personal Learning Environments are used more and more by the academic community. They can coexist with formal courses as a communication and collaboration channel. In this paper, an application of learning analytics into HOU2LEARN, a Personal Learning Environment set by Hellenic Open University is discussed. The present part of research focuses on the social network analysis as a branch of learning analytics, along with formal grading system. Since it is an ongoing research, this paper presents the preliminary results of the study of the correlation between the social network metrics and the formal grades, through a test case course, the PLH42.","PeriodicalId":162301,"journal":{"name":"International Conference on Learning Analytics and Knowledge","volume":"64 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-04-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126283281","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":"Model-driven assessment of learners in open-ended learning environments","authors":"James Segedy, Kirk M. Loretz, Gautam Biswas","doi":"10.1145/2460296.2460336","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/2460296.2460336","url":null,"abstract":"Open-ended learning environments (OELEs) provide students with opportunities to take part in authentic and complex problem-solving tasks. However, many students struggle to succeed in such complex learning endeavors. Without support, these students often use system tools incorrectly and adopt suboptimal learning strategies. However, providing adaptive support to students in OELEs poses significant challenges, and relatively few OELEs provide students with adaptive support. This paper presents the initial development of a systematic approach for interpreting and evaluating learner behaviors in OELEs called model-driven assessments, which uses a model of the cognitive and metacognitive processes important for completing the open-ended learning task. The model provides a means for both classifying and assessing students' learning behaviors while using the system. An evaluation of the analysis technique is presented in the context of Betty's Brain, an OELE designed to help middle school students learn about science.","PeriodicalId":162301,"journal":{"name":"International Conference on Learning Analytics and Knowledge","volume":"147 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-04-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122192738","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}
Ravikiran Vatrapu, P. Reimann, S. Bull, Matthew D. Johnson
{"title":"An eye-tracking study of notational, informational, and emotional aspects of learning analytics representations","authors":"Ravikiran Vatrapu, P. Reimann, S. Bull, Matthew D. Johnson","doi":"10.1145/2460296.2460321","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/2460296.2460321","url":null,"abstract":"This paper presents an eye-tracking study of notational, informational, and emotional aspects of nine different notational systems (Skill Meters, Smilies, Traffic Lights, Topic Boxes, Collective Histograms, Word Clouds, Textual Descriptors, Table, and Matrix) and three different information states (Weak, Average, & Strong) used to represent student's learning. Findings from the eye-tracking study show that higher emotional activation was observed for the metaphorical notations of traffic lights and smilies and collective representations. Mean view time was higher for representations of the \"average\" informational learning state. Qualitative data analysis of the think-aloud comments and post-study interview show that student participants reflected on the meaning-making opportunities and action-taking possibilities afforded by the representations. Implications for the design and evaluation of learning analytics representations and discourse environments are discussed.","PeriodicalId":162301,"journal":{"name":"International Conference on Learning Analytics and Knowledge","volume":"65 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-04-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132125793","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}
Verónica Rivera-Pelayo, Johannes Munk, V. Zacharias, Simone Braun
{"title":"Live interest meter: learning from quantified feedback in mass lectures","authors":"Verónica Rivera-Pelayo, Johannes Munk, V. Zacharias, Simone Braun","doi":"10.1145/2460296.2460302","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/2460296.2460302","url":null,"abstract":"There is currently little or no support for speakers to learn by reflection when addressing a big audience, like mass lectures, virtual courses or conferences. Reliable feedback from the audience could improve personal skills and work performance. To address this shortcoming we have developed the Live Interest Meter App (LIM App) that supports the gathering, aggregation and visualization of feedback. This application allows audience members to easily provide and quantify their feedback through a simple meter. We conducted several experimental tests to investigate the acceptance and perceived usefulness of the LIM App and a user study in an academic setting to inform its further development. The results of the study illustriate the potential of the LIM App to be used in such scenarios. Main findings show the need for motivating students to use the application, the readiness of presenters to learn retrospectively, and distraction as the main concern of end users.","PeriodicalId":162301,"journal":{"name":"International Conference on Learning Analytics and Knowledge","volume":"2 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-04-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127777934","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}
Steven Lonn, Stephen J. Aguilar, Stephanie D. Teasley
{"title":"Issues, challenges, and lessons learned when scaling up a learning analytics intervention","authors":"Steven Lonn, Stephen J. Aguilar, Stephanie D. Teasley","doi":"10.1145/2460296.2460343","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/2460296.2460343","url":null,"abstract":"This paper describes an intra-institutional partnership between a research team and a technology service group that was established to facilitate the scaling up of a learning analytics intervention. Our discussion focuses on the benefits and challenges that arose from this partnership in order to provide useful information for similar partnerships developed to support scaling up learning analytics interventions.","PeriodicalId":162301,"journal":{"name":"International Conference on Learning Analytics and Knowledge","volume":"551 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-04-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133431672","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":"Multidisciplinarity vs. Multivocality, the case of \"learning analytics\"","authors":"N. Balacheff, Kristine Lund","doi":"10.1145/2460296.2460299","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/2460296.2460299","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper, we consider an analysis of the TeLearn archive, of the Grand Challenges from the STELLAR Network of Excellence, of two Alpine Rendez-Vous 2011 workshops and research conducted in the Productive Multivocality initiative in order to discuss the notions of multidisciplinarity, multivocality and interidisciplinarity. We use this discussion as a springboard for addressing the term \"Learning Analytics\" and its relation to \"Educational Data Mining\". Our goal is to launch a debate pertaining to what extent the different disciplines involved in the TEL community can be integrated on methodological and theoretical levels.","PeriodicalId":162301,"journal":{"name":"International Conference on Learning Analytics and Knowledge","volume":"21 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-04-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134163741","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":"Learning object analytics for collections, repositories & federations","authors":"M. Sicilia, X. Ochoa, Giannis Stoitsis, J. Klerkx","doi":"10.1145/2460296.2460359","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/2460296.2460359","url":null,"abstract":"A large number of curated digital collections containing learning resources of a various kind has emerged in the last year. These include referatories containing descriptions for resources in the Web (as MERLOT), aggregated collections (as Organic.Edunet), concrete initiatives as Khan Academy, repositories hosting and versioning modular content (as Connexions) and meta-aggregators (as Globe and Learning Registry). Also, OpenCourseware and other OER initiatives have contributed to making this ecosystem of resources richer. Very interesting insights can be extracted when studying the usage and social data that are produced within the learning collections, repositories and federations. At the same time, concerns for the quality and sustainability of these collections have been raised, which has lead to research on quality measurement and metrics. The Workshop attempts to bring studies and demonstrations for any kind of analysis done on learning resource collections, from an interdisciplinary perspective. We consider digital collections not as merely IT deployments but as social systems with contributors, owners, evaluators and users forming patterns of interactions on top of portals or through search systems embedded in other learning technology components. This is in coherence of considering these social systems under a Web Science approach (http://webscience.org/).","PeriodicalId":162301,"journal":{"name":"International Conference on Learning Analytics and Knowledge","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-04-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114439627","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}