Perceptions of progress, EDEN 2012

Perceptions of Progress:Learning Analytics andSocial Learning BehavioursDr. Deborah EverhartAdjunct Assistant Professor, Georgetown UniversityChief Architect, Blackboard

Special thanks to my collaborators!John Fritz, Asst. VP, Instructional Technology & New Media,University of Maryland Baltimore Countyhttp://userpages.umbc.edu/~fritz/Erin Knight, Sr. Director of Learning, Mozilla Foundationhttp://erinknight.com/Jeanine Turner, Associate Professor, Georgetown Universityhttp://explore.georgetown.edu/people/turnerjw/ 2

Questions for consideration• Does student activity in learning environments correlate to student success?• How can analytics be used to identify and promote effective learning behaviours?• What types of alerts and dashboards for insights into analytics data are most useful, and who should be using them?• How do students make decisions about how to spend their limited time and attention?• What types of social frameworks promote learning? 3

Perceptions of progress: old schoolDigital Collections at the University of Maryland 4 Amboo who?

Perceptions of progress: old school“Compared with the new open badge systems, the standard college transcript looks like a sad and archaic thing. Its considerable value is not based on the information it provides, which is paltry. What does a letter grade in a course often described only by the combination of a generic department label and an arbitrary number (e.g. Econ 302) really mean? Nobody knows….” -Kevin Carey, The Chronicle of Higher Education (April 2012)“Im gonna have a bad report card and im scared…I feel worthless and like a failure and I know my dad is going to beat me and im going to be grounded this summer …even though I tried my best my good is not good enough ... Please help im in tears right now!” -anonymous 5

Perceptions of progress: new school• 6 Society for Learning Analytics Research (SOLAR)

Perceptions of progress:examples from other arenas• Personal productivity• Health• Athletics• Applications of “big data” are becoming increasingly mainstream… 7

Perceptions of progress: productivity• RescueTime- Reports and analytics on how you spend your time and attention, time management tools, and nudges when you get too distracted 8

Perceptions of progress: running •RunKeeper:• set goals• track progress• visualizeaccomplishments• compare with friends 9and virtual teammates

Why do students take a class?Motivations shape student engagement expectations To fulfill the requirements for a degree To acquire knowledge in a specific area To share in knowledge creation within a specific area 10

Social exchange perspective• Human beings make decisions based on costs and rewards• Students make similar costs and rewards decisions when investing time in a class• Goals that underlie the motivation to succeed in a course will drive a student’s cost/benefit analysis of levels of participation in a course 11

Badge frameworks• Badge issuers, learners, and badge display sites• Badges represent the achievement of competencies• Reputation frameworks support social evaluation• Experts and authorities endorse badges• Learners display badges for employment and educational opportunities 12 Openbadges.org

Perceptions of progress: badge frameworks• Openbadges.org 13

Perceptions of progress: new school• 14 Society for Learning Analytics Research (SOLAR)

Check My Activity,University of Maryland, Baltimore College• 5 years of data showing a clear correlation between students’ activity in the LMS and grades• Students earning a D or F at UMBC tend to use Blackboard on average 39 percent less than students earning higher grades• The “Check My Activity” tool lets students see their LMS activity and grades in comparison with other students in the course– in real time, so they can change their behaviour during the term• New research at UMBC shows that students with more activity in an introductory prerequisite course achieve higher grades in the next level course 15

Perceptions of progress: UMBC 16

Open Learning Initiative,Carnegie Mellon University• Open educational resources (OER) project initiated in 2002, providing learning environments that have been developed through learning science research• Designed to facilitate the progress of individual learners, with adaptive resources that respond to the learner’s progress• Student learning data is used in real time to give the learner suggestions and cues during their problem-solving processes• Accelerated learning (successful outcomes in less than half the time), contributing to higher rates of course completion 17

Perceptions ofprogress: OLI 18

Goal-oriented visualizations 19

Digital learning badges for veterans• Digital badge initiative from the U.S. Dept. of Veterans Affairs• Recognize the skills veterans have learned in the field• Translate military skills into civilian jobs or advance credit in higher education 20

Blackboard Analytics for Learn: Student View• 21

McGraw-Hill LearnSmart• 22

Learning analytics: the future is now! 23

Thank you!Dr. Deborah Everhartdeverhart@blackboard.comAdjunct Assistant Professor, Georgetown UniversityChief Architect, BlackboardSpecial thanks to my collaborators:John Fritz, Asst. VP, Instructional Technology & New Media,University of Maryland Baltimore Countyhttp://userpages.umbc.edu/~fritz/Erin Knight, Sr. Director of Learning, Mozilla Foundationhttp://erinknight.com/Jeanine Turner, Associate Professor, Georgetown Universityhttp://explore.georgetown.edu/people/turnerjw/ 24

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