This document discusses learning analytics and learning resources. It defines learning analytics as collecting student data traces to improve learning. Three emerging strategies for implementing learning analytics are discussed: modular, integrated, and standalone approaches. Examples of learning analytics systems from several European countries are provided, demonstrating the modular approach of adding analytics to individual learning resources, the integrated approach of building analytics into online learning platforms, and the standalone adaptive testing system approach. The document addresses key issues like whether traditional or new publishers will dominate, the future of open educational resources and analytics, and potential topics for further discussion at a seminar on learning analytics.

1. Learning Analytics
and Learning Resources
EdReNe Copenhagen, October 2015
Jan Hylén
Skolverket
jan.hylen@skolverket.se
Skype: jan_hylen

2. What is Learning Analytics?
• ”Learning Analytics is about collecting traces that
learners leave behind and using those traces to
improve learning.”
(Eric Duval, Cath Univ of Leuven)

3. What is Learning Analytics?
• From school bus – same pace and same route for
everyone

4. What is Learning Analytics?
• To personalised education

5. What is Learning Analytics and LACE?
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6. Work Package 4: Schools – Objectives
• Bring together disparate communities with
related interests
• Capture and disseminate the latest thinking on
learning analytics in practice
• Analyse significant developments and issues in
the domain and produce reports
• Identify, collect and synthesise claims and
evidence for the benefits of learning analytics
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7. The current situation in Europe
• Few governmental initiatives
• Low awareness among decion-makers and
decision-shapers
• Growing numbers of commercial initiatives –
mostly small scale
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8. Three(?) emerging strategies
Learning Analytics
module
Learning
resource
module
Learning
resource
module
Learning
analytics
integrated into
the learning
resource
Adaptive
testing
system
Modular approach Integrated approach Stand alone approach

9. Stand alone approach – adaptive testing (SE)
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10. Integrated approach: Studi.se (SE)
• Videos (also with sub-titles in many languages), texts
and quizzes
• Feedback to both the student and the teacher
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11. The stand alone approach (NO)

12. Modular approach: Learnbeat (NL)
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13. Modular approach: Läraktiv (SE)
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14. Example 6: Interactive Flipped Classroom (SWE)
• Based on the flipped classroom method
• Makes the students more active in the classroom
• But they are still quite passive when looking at
videos
• Technical platform which helps the teacher to
cut the videos in smaller chunks and add quizzes
• Also possible for students to stop the video and
write questions to the teacher
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15. Feedback to the teacher
• How many have looked at the video (and when)?
• How did the group score on the quizzez?
• Which parts did they found (particularly) hard?
• Where they confused by the teachers examples?
• Specific questions feeded back to the teacher
before the lesson
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16. 16
The quizz question
Correct answers Wrong answers

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Why do you subtract 4/9? The students can stop the video
and write questions if needed

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19. Future developments – issues for discussion
• Traditional textbook publishers or upcoming
dot.coms?
• Are the three approaches described the only
ones, or are there more approaches?
• Which approach(es) will be more successful?
• What about OERs and learning analytics?
• Will there be “open analytics”?
• Will there be adaptive tests in other subjects
than mathematics?
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20. 1 day seminar on Learning Analytics
• Purpose: To introduce main themes, opportunities
and challenges of Learning Analytics
• We provide:
– A tested seminar format targeting practitioners, decision
makers, researchers and ICT business
– Speakers who can give an introduction to Learning Analytics
– Names of international experts
– Use cases from other countries
• You provide
– Venue
– Local experts
• Together we create an arena for a burgeoning
debate on Learning Analytics in your country
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21. Thank you for your attention!
jan.hylen@skolverket.se
This work was undertaken as part of the LACE Project, supported by the European Commission Seventh
Framework Programme, grant 619424.
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