1. Learning Analytics
Initiatives
PANEL IN LASI-HARVARD
Presented by Xiao Hu @HKU

2. 1
• Open Learning Analytics (OLA)
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• LAMP (LA Masters Program)
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• Open Learning about Open Learning Analysis
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• LACE: Learning Analytics Community Exchange
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• Open Journals

3. Open Learning Analytics (OLA)
Josh Baron (Marist College and Apereo Foundation)
•An ecosystem
• Open source LA software
• Open standards and API
• Open models (predictive models, knowledge maps…)
• Open content (journals, Moocs, whitepapers)
• Openness or transparency w.r.t. policies and
strategies
• Not anti-commercial

4. Why OLA?
• Much work to date has been "tool" or
"software-centric"
• Often "closed" w.r.t. software, model, data
• Currently have lots of activity but not much
collaboration or awareness

5. OLA Summit 2014 (April)
http://www.onlinelendersalliance.org/event/2014SpringSummit
• Apereo (Sakai, uPortal, uMobile, ..)
• http://www.apereo.org/
• Identified major domains with OLA
•Standard and software (APIs)
•Strategies and Policies
•Learning Design
•Research and Data

6. Apereo LA initiative (LAI)
• Learning Analytics
Diamond (open LA
software framework)

7. Learning Analytics Processor
• Open source
• Plugin
architecture

8. Would Like to See What
Happens Next…
• OLA whitepaper
• Grant proposal
• Proof-of-concept software development
• Launch of an OLA Network
• Events at LAK 2015

9. LAMP (LA Masters Program)
George Siemens (University of Texas, Arlington and SoLAR)
• Meet with CMU in April 2014
• A group of individuals interested in teaching LA
and collaborate (Carolyn Rose, Ryan Baker,
Siemens, ….)
• MOOCs
• What are the learning outcomes?
• Make content searchable – 100% open content
• Education, Information Studies, Computer Science
...

10. LAMP: Content
• Research ethics
• LA processes and theory
• Experimental design and methods
• Research methods
• Data management
• Visualization
• Big data methods
• Feature Engineering
• Psychology of learning/learning theory/learning sciences
• Assessment and evaluation

11. LAMP: Goal
• To convene people/professors who
wanted to or already teach some
aspects of LA, to make educational
resources available

12. Open Learning about Open
Learning Analytics
Ryan Baker (Columbia University and IEDMS)
• Considerable interest in creating
MOOCs related to LA
• LA Curriculum?
• Teachers College, Columbia University
• MS in LA
• A focus in LA as part of Masters in Cognitive
Studies

13. LA-specific courses
• Core Methods in EDM
• Learning Analytics: Process and Theory
• Feature Engineering Studio
• Normative Perspectives on the Analysis
of Learners and Learning
• Managing Educational Data
(preservation, access, etc.)

14. Course Materials
• Course Materials are or will be available online
• Big Data and Education (MOOT (textbook))
freely available online
• This fall, Siemens' MOOC on EdX: “Data,
Analytics and Learning”
“if you have resources publicly available, please
tell us!”

15. LACE: Learning Analytics
Community Exchange
Doug Clow (Open University) laceproject.edu
•Learning
Analytics Cycle

16. How Do You Develop A Learning
Analytics Community?

17. How Do You Develop A Learning
Analytics Community? (con’t)
“Develop what we know about what we
know”
“Help more people to know more people
more”

18. Open Journals
Dragan Gasevic (Athabasca University)
• Journal of LA
• Three issues annually: learning-analytics.info
• Research and HotSpot practitioner papers
• CFP special issue:
• Self Regulated Learning and Analytics (deadline Aug.)
• Learning Analytics and Learning Theory (deadline Nov.)
Balance of different learning analytics perspectives (not
dominated by CS researchers)
• Journal of Educational Data Mining
• Open access, five volumes published

19. Quick Question for
Clarifications?