Javier Santofimia Ruiz, Héctor J. Pijeira Díaz, José A. Ruipérez Valiente, Pedro J. Muñoz Merino and Carlos Delgado Kloos. Universidad Carlos III de Madrid (Spain)

1. Towards the Development of
a Learning Analytics module
in Open edX
Presenter: Pedro J. Muñoz-Merino
e-mail: pedmume@it.uc3m.es, Twitter: @pedmume
Javier Santofimia Ruiz, Héctor J. Pijeira Díaz, José A. Ruipérez-Valiente, Pedro J. Muñoz-
Merino, Carlos Delgado Kloos
Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain

2. Learning Analytics Cycle
Generation
and data
capture
Technological problems arise
Transform
raw data
Visualizer
Recommender
Low level Report generator
data Higher level
information
What data is
necessary
What to do with high level
information
What to obtain and
How to do it
Correlations,
causality,
clustering,
prediction
2
Do Optional Activities Matter in
Virtual Learning Environments?
EC-TEL 2014

3. 3
Different systems
• Depending on the system, there are
different types of events and different type
of information that can be reused but there
are specificities:
– Programming environment for learning C
– Khan Academy
– edX

4. 4
Inference of information (I)
• Type of information
– Progress
– Efficiency, time distribution
– Emotions
– Optional activities
– Students behaviours (try abuse, hint
avoidance, unreflective)
– Gamification habits

5. 5
Inference of information (II)
• Based on
– Pedagogical theories
– Best practices
– Adaptation of models from other systems
– Indicators that can predict important
information

6. 6
Visualizations

7. 7
Interpretation of the information
and actions
• Combination of different parameters and
visualizations
• Relationship mining
• Determining causes
• Prediction
– Learning gains
– Social activity
• Recommendation

8. Towards the Development of
a Learning Analytics module
in Open edX
Presenter: Pedro J. Muñoz-Merino
e-mail: pedmume@it.uc3m.es, Twitter: @pedmume
Javier Santofimia Ruiz, Héctor J. Pijeira Díaz, José A. Ruipérez-Valiente, Pedro J. Muñoz-
Merino, Carlos Delgado Kloos
Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain