This document discusses principles and constraints of learning analytics. It explores how learning analytics can help students improve performance and predict grades, while enhancing retention. However, it also notes potential issues like mistaken predictions, ethical breaches, and revealing personal student information. Key constraints discussed include maintaining confidentiality, integrity and availability of student data, determining who owns the data, and complying with data protection and copyright laws. The document examines these topics in the context of developing an appropriate framework for learning analytics.

1. Learning Analytics
Principles & Constraints
Khalil, Mohammad and Ebner, Martin
EdMedia 2015, Montréal

2. Big Data Analytics

3. Psychology
ComputerScience
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4. What Can Learning Analytics do?
• Students improve their performance
• Predict the student’s grades
• Enhance retention percentages
• Point difficulties in courses models

5. Phases ?
Constraints ?

11. A Life Cycle?

13. Phases ?
Constraints ?

14. What
if
Learning
Analy/cs
went
wrong?
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Mistaken
Predic/ons!
Ethical
breaches!!

15. Learning Analytics
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16. Learning Analytics - Constraints

17. Learning Analytics - Constraints
Revealing Personal Information
Morality to view students’ data
Collecting and Analyzing data
Transparency
Students’ data deletion policy

18. Learning Analytics - Constraints
Achieving Confidentiality, Integrity
and Availability
Who owns students data,
Students or institutions?
Data Protection and Copyright
Laws limit the use of LA apps
Inaccurate analysis results?

19. A Framework?

20. Learning Analytics: Principles & Constraints

21. THANK YOU
Mohammad
Khalil
Ø Mohammad.Khalil@tugraz.at
“Learning
Analy.cs:
Principles
and
Constraints”,
By
Mohammad
Khalil
&
Mar.n
Ebner,
Graz
University
of
Technology,
EDMEDIA-­‐15’
,
Canada,
June.
2015
Mar/n
Ebner
Ø Mar/n.Ebner@tugraz.at