learning analytics gaining good actionable insight
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Learning Analytics: Gaining good actionable insight
Martin Hawksey@mhawksey
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How much do you know about Learning
Analytics?In small groups share what you know
about Learning Analytics – 4mins
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Patterns are left behind
Courtesy Marc Smith http://www.slideshare.net/Marc_A_Smith/2013-nodexl-social-media-network-analysis9
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Analytics in Education
Analytics is the process of developing actionable insights through problem
definition and the application of statistical models and analysis against existing
and/or simulated future data
Adam Cooper, What is Analytics? http://publications.cetis.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/What-is-Analytics-Vol1-No-5.pdf
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Learning Analytics Definition
…the measurement, collection, analysis and reporting of data about
learners and their contexts, for purposes of understanding and
optimising learning and the environments in which it occurs
First International Conference on Learning Analytics and Knowledge (LAK11), 2011
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Disciplines
◊ Computer science◊ Statistics◊ Programming◊ Network analysis◊ Psychology of education◊ …
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Methods
◊ Content Analytics ◊ Context Analytics◊ Discourse Analytics ◊ Disposition Analytics◊ Social Network Analysis◊ …Ferguson and Buckingham Shum (2012) Social Learning Analytics: Five
Approaches
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Tools/Products
◊ Spreadsheets - MS Excel, Tableau, Open Refine, Google Sheets…
◊ SNA – NodeXL, Gephi, Cytoscape◊ Programming: R, Python,
MATLAB… ◊ VLEs - Blackboard Analytics for
Learn, Desire2Learn Insights …◊ …
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Action
Analytic
Data
Question
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The Absence of Theory
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Amazon cares not a whit *why* people who buy german chocolate also buy cake pans as long as they
get to the checkout buying both
Mike Caulfield - Short Notes on the Absence of Theory http://hapgood.us/2013/12/10/short-notes-on-the-absence-of-theory/
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Counts don’t count much if decontextualized
Wilson, T.D. (1999). Models in information behaviour research. Journal of Documentation, 55(3), 249 – 270.
Dragan Gasevic speaking at DiCE SeminarMoray House School of Education – 9th January 2015
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Dragan Gasevic speaking at DiCE SeminarMoray House School of Education – 9th January 2015
Analytics to account for conditions, operations, products,
evaluation, and standards (COPES)Gašević, D., Dawson, S., Siemens, G. (2015). Let's not forget:
Learning analytics are about learning. TechTrends, 59(1), 64-71, https://bit.ly/techtrends15
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Data Visualization
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Graphs can be a powerful way to represent relationships between data, but they are also a very abstract concept, which means that they
run the danger of meaning something only to the creator of the graph … Everything looks like a graph, but almost nothing should ever be
drawn as one.
Ben Fry in ‘Visualizing Data’
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Exploratory visualizationData visualizations that are used by the designer for self-informative purposes to discover patterns, trends, or sub-problems in a dataset. Exploratory visualizations typically don’t have an already-known story.
Explanatory visualizationData visualizations that are used to transmit information or a point of view from the designer to the reader. Explanatory visualizations typically have a specific “story” or information that they are intended to transmit.
Iliinsky & Steele - Designing Data Visualizations: Representing Informational Relationships
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Visualizations can be harmful
Corrin, L., & de Barba, P. (2014). Exploring students’ interpretation of feedback delivered through learning
analytics dashboards. In Proceedings of the ascilite 2014 conference (pp. 629-633). ascilite.
Dragan Gasevic speaking at DiCE SeminarMoray House School of Education – 9th January 2015
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Visualizations can be useful
…if embedded into and fit learning tasksDragan Gasevic speaking at DiCE Seminar
Moray House School of Education – 9th January 2015
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Ethics, privacy and data sharing
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The worlds of privacy and
analytics intersect
Downes (2014)
…not always happily
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Ethics
◊ Clarity ◊ Comfort and care◊ Choice and consent ◊ Consequence and complaint
Legal, Risk and Ethical Aspects of Analytics in Higher Education (Kay, Korn, & Oppenheim, 2012)
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http://www.open.ac.uk/students/charter/essential-documents/ethical-use-student-data-learning-analytics-policy
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https://www.jisc.ac.uk/guides/code-of-practice-for-learning-analytics
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Opportunities
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Feedback loops between students and instructors are missing!
Hattie, J., & Timperley, H. (2007). The power of feedback. Review of education research, 77(1), 82-112.
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At best analytics can help start a conversation. People have to be willing to take the conversation
on
Roberts, G. Analytics are not relationships http://rworld2.brookesblogs.net/2014/12/12/analytics-are-not-relationships/
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What might you use Learning Analytics for?
In small groups discuss – 5mins
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Examples
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Optimal Video Length
Philip Guo, Optimal Video Length for Student Engagement@mhawksey
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Misconception or mistakes in MCQs
Koller, D The Online Revolution: Education at Scale (2012) http://youtu.be/ixE1YAlHnVU?t=29m16s
Analytics at scale: Course SignalsDeveloped at Purdue University, USA
39Arnold, K. E., & Pistilli, M. (2012). Course Signals at Purdue: Using Learning Analytics
To Increase Student Success. Paper presented at LAK12, Vancouver, Canada.
http://www.slideshare.net/R3beccaF/scaling-up-learning-analytics
Easily accessible OU dataLearning design and analytics at the OU
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http://www.slideshare.net/R3beccaF/scaling-up-learning-analytics
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Scaling up Learning Analytics
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ii4EgnOvpxA
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Wrapping up
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Learning activities don’t happen in a single platform
Dragon Gasevic
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Not everything that can be counted counts.
Not everything that counts can be counted.
William Bruce Cameron
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What kind of learners are we trying to create?
… this should drive our analytics
Simon Buckingham Shum
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Computers are stupid
https://twitter.com/jackyalcine/status/615329515909156865
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Useful links• LACE (learning analytics community exchange) :
http://www.laceproject.eu/• SoLAR : Society for Learning Analytics Research
http://solaresearch.org/• Jisc: http://analytics.jiscinvolve.org/wp• Cetis Analytics Series :
http://publications.cetis.ac.uk/c/analytics• LAK16 Conference #lak16
From http://www.slideshare.net/sheilamac/intro-to-learning-analytics-universities-scotlanddec2014smn
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Thank you!
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