The document discusses how analytics can be used in learning environments to improve the learning process. It describes how analytics can provide more detailed observations of students, keep tutors informed, automatically discover complementary learning resources, and measure engagement in out-of-class activities. The goal of analytics is to help stakeholders observe, predict, and act to improve the learning experience.

1. Let me see...
Analytics in learning environments
eMadrid Seminar, March 2012
Abelardo Pardo
http://www.it.uc3m.es/abel
@abelardopardo

2. Analytics
today
Potential
for
learning
Our
solutions
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3. Why?
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4. If you can not measure it,
you can not improve it.
Lord Kelvin
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5. Personal analytics
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6. Let me see...
your rhythm
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7. Got tools?
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8. Is data THAT important?
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9. Is she pregnant?
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11. You are being watched
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12. No (unwanted) surprises!
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13. Let me see...
your medical
records
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14. Collect
Refine Report
The five steps
of analytics
Act Predict
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15. Analytics
today
Potential
for
learning
Our
solutions
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16. Are they learning?
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17. Does change
mean improvement?
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18. “We need better evaluation
to acknowledge and esteem
excellence when it occurs,
as it does.”
John Hattie. Visible Learning: A Synthesis of Over 800
Meta-Analyses Relating to Achievement.
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20. Learning analytics
improve the feedback loop
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21. Use big data to really
understandSteve Schoettler, CEO Junyo
the student
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22. www.solaresearch.org
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23. Analytics
today
Potential
for
learning
Our
solutions
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24. More detailed observations
Keep the tutor in the loop
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25. A clearly identified
environment within
your computer
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26. Let me see...
a detailed view of your
learning activities only
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27. Combine
observations
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28. Automatic discovery
of complementary
learning resources
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29. Measure engagement in
out-of-class activities
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30. Just in time teaching
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31. Let me see...
how is your team
working
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32. Quick intuitive
feedback
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34. Stakeholders observe, predict and act
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35. Let me see...
how are you?
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36. Mood
changes
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37. Let me see how you learn...
so I can improve the experience.
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38. References I
S. Godin’s Blog
The illusion of privacy (and what we actually care about)
http://sethgodin.typepad.com/seths_blog/2012/02/the-illusion-of-privacy-and-what-we-actually-care-about.html
Stephen Wolfram’s Blog
The Personal Analytics of My Life
http://blog.stephenwolfram.com/2012/03/the-personal-analytics-of-my-life/
Intelligent Bus Stops
http://www.thedrum.co.uk/news/2012/02/20/intelligent-street-ads-distinguish-between-men-and-women
John Hattie
Visible Learning: A Synthesis of Over 800 Meta-Analyses Relating to Achievement
Taylor & Francis, 2009
Daily Mail
How Target knows when its shoppers are pregnant - and figured out a teen was before her father did
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2102859/How-Target-knows-shoppers-pregnant--figured-teen-father-did.
html?ito=feeds-newsxml
Romero Zaldívar, V. A., Crespo García, R. M., Burgos, D., Delgado Kloos, C., and Pardo, A. (2011).
Automatic Discovery of Complementary Learning Resources.
In Delgado Kloos, C., Gillet, D., García Crespo, R. M., Wild, F., and Wolpers, M., editors, Proceedings of the
European Conference on Technology Enhanced Learning. LNCS Vol. 6964, pages 327–340. Springer.
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