This document discusses how educational institutions and others can gain actionable insights from open online courses through data analytics. It explores analyzing data from sources like social networks, video viewing patterns, and discussion forums to understand student engagement and identify at-risk groups. Various analytic tools are described like YouTube Analytics, Google Analytics, and APIs that can access data from learning management systems to help tutors, researchers, and institutions optimize courses and learning outcomes.
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Open Course Data Insights
1. Show me the data!
Actionable insight from open courses
2. Analytics
“actionable insights through problem
definition and the application of
statistical models and analysis against
existing and/or simulated future data”
Cooper, A. 2012 – Cetis Analytics Series
What-is-Analytics-Vol1-No-5
23. Google Analytics
Define events to
track in GADevelop custom
segmentations
with eye on
actionable insight
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24. Google Analytics
Define events to
track in GADevelop custom
segmentations
with eye on
actionable insight
Provide data using
developed templated
queries
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30. Network effects
The social
network
diagrams can
be used to
identify:
• isolated
students
• group
malfunction
• users that
are
information
brokers
Hansen, D. L., Shneiderman, B., & Smith, M. (2010). Visualizing threaded conversation
networks: mining message boards and email lists for actionable insights.
32. Analytically cloaked
“Learning and knowledge creation is often
distributed across multiple media and sites in
networked environments. Traces of such
activity may be fragmented across multiple
logs and may not match analytic needs.”
Suthers, D. D., & Rosen, D. (2011).
A unified framework for multi-level analysis of distributed learning
34. Count
% of
Total
Total Inputs 250
# Matched 178 71.20%
# No Match 72 28.80%
# Bad Input 0 0.00%
In sample 41%
(n.103) emails
returned bio
35. Count
% of
Total
Total Inputs 250
# Matched 178 71.20%
# No Match 72 28.80%
# Bad Input 0 0.00%
In sample 41%
(n.103) emails
returned bio
API returns other
social profiles
36. • Detecting and Analyzing Subpopulations within
Connectivist MOOCs
• Retrospective investigation into learner
subpopulation detection within the connectivist
courses.
• Using free and open source tools we will
attempt to resolve activity data from multiple
sources to permit the analysis of any
engagement patterns.
Ferguson and Buckingham Shum (2012)'s Social Learning Analytics: Five Approaches defines five dimensions of social learning for which one could create instruments:
social network analytics — interpersonal relationships define social platforms
discourse analytics — language is a primary tool for knowledge negotiation and construction
content analytics — user-generated content is one of the defining characteristics of Web 2.0
disposition analytics — intrinsic motivation to learn is a defining feature of online social media, and lies at the heart of engaged learning, and innovation
context analytics — mobile computing is transforming access to both people and content.
Ferguson and Buckingham Shum (2012)'s Social Learning Analytics: Five Approaches defines five dimensions of social learning for which one could create instruments:
social network analytics — interpersonal relationships define social platforms
discourse analytics — language is a primary tool for knowledge negotiation and construction
content analytics — user-generated content is one of the defining characteristics of Web 2.0
disposition analytics — intrinsic motivation to learn is a defining feature of online social media, and lies at the heart of engaged learning, and innovation
context analytics — mobile computing is transforming access to both people and content.
Ferguson and Buckingham Shum (2012)'s Social Learning Analytics: Five Approaches defines five dimensions of social learning for which one could create instruments:
social network analytics — interpersonal relationships define social platforms
discourse analytics — language is a primary tool for knowledge negotiation and construction
content analytics — user-generated content is one of the defining characteristics of Web 2.0
disposition analytics — intrinsic motivation to learn is a defining feature of online social media, and lies at the heart of engaged learning, and innovation
context analytics — mobile computing is transforming access to both people and content.
Ferguson and Buckingham Shum (2012)'s Social Learning Analytics: Five Approaches defines five dimensions of social learning for which one could create instruments:
social network analytics — interpersonal relationships define social platforms
discourse analytics — language is a primary tool for knowledge negotiation and construction
content analytics — user-generated content is one of the defining characteristics of Web 2.0
disposition analytics — intrinsic motivation to learn is a defining feature of online social media, and lies at the heart of engaged learning, and innovation
context analytics — mobile computing is transforming access to both people and content.
Ferguson and Buckingham Shum (2012)'s Social Learning Analytics: Five Approaches defines five dimensions of social learning for which one could create instruments:
social network analytics — interpersonal relationships define social platforms
discourse analytics — language is a primary tool for knowledge negotiation and construction
content analytics — user-generated content is one of the defining characteristics of Web 2.0
disposition analytics — intrinsic motivation to learn is a defining feature of online social media, and lies at the heart of engaged learning, and innovation
context analytics — mobile computing is transforming access to both people and content.
Ferguson and Buckingham Shum (2012)'s Social Learning Analytics: Five Approaches defines five dimensions of social learning for which one could create instruments:
social network analytics — interpersonal relationships define social platforms
discourse analytics — language is a primary tool for knowledge negotiation and construction
content analytics — user-generated content is one of the defining characteristics of Web 2.0
disposition analytics — intrinsic motivation to learn is a defining feature of online social media, and lies at the heart of engaged learning, and innovation
context analytics — mobile computing is transforming access to both people and content.
Ferguson and Buckingham Shum (2012)'s Social Learning Analytics: Five Approaches defines five dimensions of social learning for which one could create instruments:
social network analytics — interpersonal relationships define social platforms
discourse analytics — language is a primary tool for knowledge negotiation and construction
content analytics — user-generated content is one of the defining characteristics of Web 2.0
disposition analytics — intrinsic motivation to learn is a defining feature of online social media, and lies at the heart of engaged learning, and innovation
context analytics — mobile computing is transforming access to both people and content.
What: Coursera MCQ data
Who: tutors
What: edX
Who: Institutions/tutors
These trajectories are also a useful framework for the
comparison of learner engagement between different course
structures or instructional approaches
What: Coursera
K-means
Who: Inst.
Headache
Simply getting the data in a timely fashion
Headache
Do you want a database table dump?
Do you need to join datasets, merge results, cleanse
Ferguson and Buckingham Shum (2012)'s Social Learning Analytics: Five Approaches defines five dimensions of social learning for which one could create instruments:
social network analytics — interpersonal relationships define social platforms
discourse analytics — language is a primary tool for knowledge negotiation and construction
content analytics — user-generated content is one of the defining characteristics of Web 2.0
disposition analytics — intrinsic motivation to learn is a defining feature of online social media, and lies at the heart of engaged learning, and innovation
context analytics — mobile computing is transforming access to both people and content.