what is learning analytics about?
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What is Learning Analytics About?A Survery of Different Methods Used in 2013-
2015
Mohammad Khalil & Martin Ebner, Graz University of Technology
Mohammad Khalil & Martin Ebner
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Mohammad Khalil
Ph.D. CandidateGraz University of
Technology, Austria
@TuMohdKhalil
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http://mohdkhalil.wordpress.com
What is Learning Analytics ?
“An Emerging field that is applied in different educational settings, for purposes of doing proper interventions and improving education
Main process of Learning Analytics
◎ Collecting
◎ Analysis
◎ Acting
Khalil, M., & Ebner, M. (2015, June). Learning Analytics: Principles and Constraints. In Proceedings of World Conference on Educational Multimedia, Hypermedia and Telecommunications (pp. 1326-1336).
Big DataConcept
Various Methods to analyse educational data sets
Goals of this study
Establish a future forecast towards
new research work
Help Researcher to identify the
common methods
Compare the beginning view
and the ongoing current vision
91Surveyed Papers
78Considered Publications
Research Design
Learning Analytics Disciplines
Computer Science
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Education
Education
Psychology
Statistics
Pedagogy
Machine Learning
Data Mining Techniques
Stat
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Text
Min
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Visu
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SNAQualt. Analysis
Gamification
Methodshttp://wallpapers.brothersoft.com/track-and-field-93927.html
* Some papers share more than single category
Data Mining Techniques“tends to make sense of data”
◎ Most used methods
◎ Classification, Regression, Clustering, REP-trees…etc.
Statistics and Mathematics“measuring ,controlling and understanding data”
◎ Inferential and descriptive statistics and mathematics
◎ mean, median, standard deviation, markov chain…
Text Mining, Semantics & Linguistic Analysis“text and discourse analysis”
◎ Used for assessment purposes, enhance collaborative writing and predicition.
◎ Methods like ontologies, Natural Language Processing, mining text…
Visualization“information is visually presented”
◎ Used to predict students are risk, awareness tools, dashboards
◎ heatmaps, scatterplots, flowcharts…
Social Network Analysis“Relationships between entities”
◎ Used to investigate connections between learners, teachers and resources.
◎ Predict weak or strong ties
Qualitative Analysis“descisions based on explained descriptions”
◎ Used to understand nature of discussion forums, and to investigate needs.
◎ Methods like qualitative evaluation, qualitative reviews and qualitative meta-analysis…
Gamification“using game mechanics to make learning fun”
◎ Used to improve students performance, and building a gamified grading systems
◎ Methods like reward points, progress bars, badges and 3d immersive environment.
Prominent & Popular methods
GoogleScholar, Density Plot.
Google Scholar Citations
MOOCs articles are the most cited papers
Density Plot
Is Learning Analytics always great?
• Privacy
• Transparency
• Security
• Ownership
Mohammad KhalilThanks!
@TuMohdKhalil
http://mohdkhalil.wordpress.com
Slides Available at: http://bit.do/ia9_lahttp://elearningblog.tugraz.at
Mohammad Khalil & Martin Ebner, Graz University of Technology
Educational Technology