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Learning Analytics - Towards a New Discipline- Dragan Ga šević Email: dgasevic@acm.org https://semtech.athabascau.ca

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<ul><li>Social Web and PLEs are here! </li></ul>

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<ul><li>Are we happy with the present in learning and education? </li></ul>

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<ul><li>How do we know how we are doing? </li></ul>

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Topics to discuss <ul><li>Learning environments today </li></ul><ul><li>Learning analytics – definition </li></ul><ul><li>Learning analytics – approaches & challenges </li></ul>

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<ul><li>Part I </li></ul><ul><li>Learning Environments Today </li></ul>

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Today’s idea of “learning”

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Learning Paths http://www.w3.org/2006/Talks/1023-sb-W3CTechSemWeb/DataServicesWebAppMetro2.jpg

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Educational Ecosystems Authoring Reusability Packaging Educators Reusability Adaptivity Evolution Collaboration with educators and students

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Educational Ecosystems Authoring Reusability Packaging Educators Feedback Learning and Collaborating Personalization Adaptivity Context-awareness Social interaction … Learners

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Educational Ecosystems Educators Learners Authoring Reusability Packaging Learning and Collaborating Community Peer-Review Presenting Administration Mobile

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Learning (Life) not in a box! A small part of a software engineer’s life

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Learning ecosystem … … … … … A small part of a software engineer’s life

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<ul><li>Part II </li></ul><ul><li>Learning Analytics </li></ul>

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<ul><li>A systematic change needed! </li></ul>

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Learning Analytics – What? <ul><li>Measurement, collection, analysis, and reporting of data about learners and their contexts </li></ul>

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Learning Analytics – Why? <ul><li>Understanding and optimising learning and the environments in which learning occurs </li></ul>

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Evidence-based Education As the integration of best research evidence with practitioner expertise and stakeholder values The goal made up based on

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Evidence-based BPM

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Current best evidence from research to integrate with practical experience and human values in the decision making process

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Example How to develop presentation skills in asynchronous course delivery?

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Approach “ YouTube-like” to present Students record their presentations and share with their peers

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How to discuss such presentations? By using discussion forums (in Moodle)

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Participation in discussions is part of the course mark

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<ul><li>Part III </li></ul><ul><li>Learning Analytics Approaches and Challenges </li></ul>

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Learning Analytics <ul><li>What and how to collect and report? </li></ul><ul><li>Measurement, collection, analysis, and reporting of data about learners and their contexts </li></ul>

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<ul><li>Ubiquitous learning analytics </li></ul><ul><ul><li>Tool and format independent </li></ul></ul><ul><ul><li>Aggregates and integrates </li></ul></ul>

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Semantic Web <ul><li>Ontologies: Interconnecting applications </li></ul><ul><ul><li>Shared domain conceptualizations </li></ul></ul>

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Linked Data http://richard.cyganiak.de/2007/10/lod/

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Linked Data http://richard.cyganiak.de/2007/10/lod/

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<ul><li>“ A crazy problem requires a crazy solution!” </li></ul><ul><li>(Griff Richards, 2005) </li></ul>

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Learning Context Ontology: LOCO Jovanović, J., Knight, C., Gašević, D., Richards, G., &quot;Learning Object Context on the Semantic Web,&quot; 6th IEEE International Conference on Advanced Learning Technologies , Kerkrade, The Netherlands, 2006 pp. 669-673 ( Best paper award ).

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Education Social Semantic Web <ul><li>Combining Social and Semantic Web aspects </li></ul><ul><ul><li>OAST and LOCO-Analyst </li></ul></ul>

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LOCO-Analyst

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Formative Evaluation Ali, L., Hatala, M. Gašević, D., Jovanović, J., &quot;A Qualitative Evaluation of Evolution of a Learning Analytics Tool,&quot; Computers & Education , 2011 (in press), http://goo.gl/lCvMT Category Sub-category Q8 Suggestions for improving Visualization/GUI 77.8% Annotations 5.66% Other Features 11.11% No suggestions but liked Data Visualization - Interface Design 5.56% Annotations -

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<ul><li>Visual learning analytics </li></ul><ul><ul><li>Ubiquitous LA impossible w/o visual </li></ul></ul><ul><ul><ul><li>Information overload </li></ul></ul></ul>

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LOCO-Analyst

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LOCO-Analyst

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LOCO-Analyst

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LOCO-Analyst

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Student comprehension

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Evaluation of LOCO-Analyst <ul><li>Predictors of the perceived utility </li></ul><ul><ul><li>information about interactions of students </li></ul></ul><ul><ul><ul><li>social networking </li></ul></ul></ul><ul><ul><li>students’ comprehension of content </li></ul></ul><ul><ul><ul><li>collaborative tagging </li></ul></ul></ul><ul><ul><li>intuitiveness & ease-to-understand of the presentation of the above two </li></ul></ul>

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Learning Analytics <ul><li>What to measure? </li></ul><ul><li>Measurement, collection, analysis, and reporting of data about learners and their contexts </li></ul>

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http://learningworksforkids.com/EF/metacognition.html

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Learning Analytics <ul><li>How to analyze? </li></ul><ul><li>Measurement, collection, analysis, and reporting of data about learners and their contexts </li></ul>

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http://goo.gl/jtO3i SNAPP http://nodexl.codeplex.com/

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http://www.processmining.org

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http://www.cs.waikato.ac.nz/ml/weka

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Submission: October 16, 2011

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<ul><li>Learning analytics </li></ul><ul><li>more </li></ul><ul><li>meaningful & ubiquitous </li></ul><ul><li>with semantic technologies </li></ul>

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Thank you!