The document discusses the concept of learning analytics, focusing on tracking learner behaviors through various digital tools and methods to enhance educational outcomes. It includes references to case studies and evaluations related to visualizing learner activities and improving personal learning environments. The authors emphasize the importance of user tracking and feedback loops in assessing the effectiveness and impact of learning interventions.

1. Learning Dashboards &
Learnscapes
Sten Govaerts, Erik Duval, José Luis Santos, Katrien
Verbert, Joris Klerkx, Gonzalo Parra, Till Nagel
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2. our team:
Human-Computer Interaction
• technology enhanced learning
• music
• research
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3. Human Computer Interaction Lab
Technology Enhanced
Learning
Awareness & Sense-making
prof. Erik Duval
e-health Music
Computer Graphics
prof. Phil Dutré
Language Intelligence &
Information Retrieval
Research 2.0 prof. Sien Moens
“Flexible Interaction between people and information”
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4. Learning Analytics is about
collecting traces
that learners leave behind
and using those traces
to improve learning.
http://erikduval.wordpress.com/2012/01/30/learning-analytics-and-educational-data-mining/
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7. how do we track?
• twitter
• blog/blog comments
• time tracking: toggl.com
• user actions:
• eclipse plug-in
• virtual machines
• logs from learning managment systems
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8. case studies.
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9. J. L. Santos, K.Verbert,
S. Govaerts, and E.
Duval. Visualizing PLE
Usage. Proceedings of
EFEPLE11: 1st
Workshop on Exploring
the Fitness and
Evolvability of Personal
Learning Environments,
CEUR Laclusaz, France,
30-31 March 2011
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10. http://jlsantoso.blogspot.com/
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11. Jose Luis Santos; Sten Govaerts; Katrien Verbert; Erik Duval. Goal-
oriented visualizations of activity tracking: a case study with engineering
students. ACM Learning Analytics and Knowledge Conference 2012.
h"p://ariadne.cs.kuleuven.be/stepup/dashboardthesis.jsp
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12. Govaerts, Sten;Verbert, Katrien, Duval,
Erik; Pardo, Abelardo, The Student Activity
Meter for Awareness and Self-reflection.
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http://mume11.snakeflash.com/

14. Vandeputte, Bram; Klerkx, Joris; Duval, Erik. Applying Design
Strategies in Publication Networks - A Case Study.
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15. issues.
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16. user tracking issues
• what are relevant learner actions?
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17. user tracking issues
• what are relevant learner actions?
• how can we capture learner actions?
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18. feedback loops.
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19. evaluation issues
• how to evaluate usefulness?
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20. evaluation issues
• how to evaluate usefulness?
• how to evaluate learning impact?
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23. EMuRgency
New approaches for resuscitation
support and training in the EMR region
(Euregio Maas-Rijn)
DECREASE TIME BETWEEN CARDIAC
ARREST & START OF RESUSCITATION
“Provide faster help”
time
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24. Ringh Mattias, Fredman David, Nordberg Per, Stark Tomas, Hollenberg Jacob, Mobile phone technology identifies and recruits trained citizens to perform CPR on out-of-
hospital cardiac arrest victims prior to ambulance arrival
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25. @ErikDuval http://erikduval.wordpress.com/
sten@cs.kuleuven.be
slides will appear on http://www.slideshare.net/stengovaerts
LAK13: Learning Analytics and Knowledge
8-12 April 2013 Leuven, Belgium
http://lakconference.org/
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