Reflecting on Learning Analytics Tools

SIG LA Model of Learning Analytics Obstacles Recommendations for the future

Reflecting on Learning Analytics ToolsThe experiences of the Special Interest Group

Sander Latourlatour@uva.nl

@sanderlatour

Universiteit van Amsterdam

7 maart 2013

Sander Latour Universiteit van AmsterdamReflecting on Learning Analytics Tools

1 SIG LA

2 Model of Learning Analytics

3 Obstacles

4 Recommendations for the future

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1 Data was difficult to access.(e.g. uSis, Evasys, Blackboard)

2 Systems were intended for administration, not analytics.Data was not entered with analytics in mind

3 Data was severly incomplete.(e.g. Fronter, Blackboard Learn 9.1)

4 Tools were difficult to combineConversion scripts needed to be written

1 What you (don’t) collect determines everything elselet’s not collect too little (keeping analytics in mind)

2 Combining multiple tools is inevitablelet’s make it easier

3 Great danger for tool-centric analyticslet’s keep it learner-centric

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