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Learning Analytics- A New Discipline and Bits of Semantics -
Dragan Gašević@dgasevic
https://semtech.athabascau.ca
http://goo.gl/8foQa
Age of Social Media and
Learning
How do we knowhow we are doing?
Topics to discuss
Learning – today, tomorrow… Learning analytics – definition Learning analytics –
approaches & challenges with bits of semantics
Part ILearning Today, Tomorrow
Today’s idea of “learning”
Learning Paths
http://www.w3.org/2006/Talks/1023-sb-W3CTechSemWeb/DataServicesWebAppMetro2.jpg
Educational Ecosystems
Authoring
Reusability
Packaging
Educators
ReusabilityAdaptivityEvolutionCollaboration with educators and students
Educational Ecosystems
Authoring
Reusability
Packaging
Educators
Feedback
Learning and Collaborating
PersonalizationAdaptivityContext-awarenessSocial interaction…
Learners
Educational Ecosystems
Authoring
Reusability
Packaging Learning and Collaborating
Community
Peer-Review
Presenting
Administration
Mobile
Educators Learners
Learning (Life) not in a box!
A small part of a software engineer’s life
Learning ecosystem
…
…
…
……
A small part of a software engineer’s life
Three Generation of Distance Education Pedagogies
Anderson, T. & Dron, J. (2011) Three Generations of Distance Education Pedagogy, International Review of Research in Open and Distance Learning 12(3), 80-97, http://goo.gl/j3mRF
Part IILearning Analytics
A systematic change needed!
Learning Analytics – What?
Measurement, collection, analysis, and reporting of data
about learners and their contexts
Learning Analytics – Why?
Understanding and optimising learning and the environments
in which learning occurs
http://solaresearch.org/OpenLearningAnalytics.pdf
Evidence-based Education
As the integration of best research evidence with practitioner expertise and stakeholder values
The goal made up based on
Part IIILearning Analytics
Approaches and Challenges- with bits of semantics -
Learning Analytics
What and how to collect?
Measurement, collection, analysis, and reporting of data about learners and their contexts
Ubiquitous learning analytics
Tool and format independent Aggregates and integrates
Semantic Web
Ontologies: Interconnecting applications Shared domain conceptualizations
Linked Data
http://richard.cyganiak.de/2007/10/lod/
Linked Data
http://richard.cyganiak.de/2007/10/lod/
“A crazy problem requires a crazy solution!”
(Griff Richards, 2005)
Learning Context Ontology: LOCO
Jovanović, J., Knight, C., Gašević, D., Richards, G., "Learning Object Context on the Semantic Web," 6th IEEE International Conference on Advanced Learning Technologies, Kerkrade, The Netherlands, 2006 pp. 669-673 (Best paper award).
Education Social Semantic Web
Combining Social and Semantic Web aspects OAST and LOCO-Analyst
LOCO-Analyst
Formative Evaluation
Category Sub-category Q8
Suggestions for improving
Visualization/GUI 77.8%
Annotations 5.66%
Other Features 11.11%
No suggestions but liked
Data Visualization -
Interface Design 5.56%
Annotations -
Ali, L., Hatala, M. Gašević, D., Jovanović, J. (2012). A Qualitative Evaluation of Evolution of a Learning Analytics Tool. Computers & Education, 58(1) 470-489, http://goo.gl/lCvMT
Learning Analytics
What and how to report?
Measurement, collection, analysis, and reporting of data about learners and their contexts
Visual learning analytics
Ubiquitous LA impossible w/o visualInformation overload
LOCO-Analyst
LOCO-Analyst
LOCO-Analyst
LOCO-Analyst
Student comprehension
Learning Analytics Acceptance Model
Inspired by Venkatesh, V., Morris, M. G., Davis, G. B., & Davis, F. D., 2003. User acceptance of information technology: Toward a unified view. MIS Quarterly, (27:3), pp. 425-478.
Learning Analytics Acceptance Model
Learning Analytics
What to measure?
Measurement, collection, analysis, and reporting of data about learners and their contexts
Learning Analytics for Community of Inquiry
Effects of instructional interventions
Example: Role playing (invited expert and moderation) with explicit instructions how to contribute
http://learningworksforkids.com/EF/metacognition.html
Social Learning Analytics forSelf-regulated Workplace Learning
Siadaty, M., Gašević, D., Jovanović, J., Milikić, N., Jeremić, N., Ali, L., Giljanović, A., Hatala, M., "Learn-B: Social Analytics Tool for Self-regulated Workplace Learning," In Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Learning Analytics and Knowledge, 2012 (in press), http://goo.gl/Vm8tv
Social Learning Analytics forSelf-regulated Workplace Learning
Siadaty, M., Gašević, D., Jovanović, J., Milikić, N., Jeremić, N., Ali, L., Giljanović, A., Hatala, M., "Learn-B: Social Analytics Tool for Self-regulated Workplace Learning," In Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Learning Analytics and Knowledge, 2012 (in press), http://goo.gl/Vm8tv
Social Learning Analytics forSelf-regulated Workplace Learning
Siadaty, M., Gašević, D., Jovanović, J., Milikić, N., Jeremić, N., Ali, L., Giljanović, A., Hatala, M., "Learn-B: Social Analytics Tool for Self-regulated Workplace Learning," In Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Learning Analytics and Knowledge, 2012 (in press), http://goo.gl/Vm8tv
Learning Analytics
How to analyze?
Measurement, collection, analysis, and reporting of data about learners and their contexts
Measuring Cognitive Presence
Text mining and linked data
A very similar text-mining problem is spam classification.Sure, sounds funny, but computing is a strange affair !
http://www.cs.waikato.ac.nz/ml/weka
Cognition and meta-cognition
Discovering learning processes
http://www.processmining.org
http://goo.gl/jtO3i
SNAPP
http://nodexl.codeplex.com/
April 29 – May 2, 2012Vancouver, BC, Canada
Early registration: Tomorrow, Feb 15, 2012http://lak12.sites.olt.ubc.ca/registration/
http://linkededucation.org
Linked Learning 2012 @ WWW 2012 Submission registration: Friday, Feb 17, 2012http://lile2012.linkededucation.org/
Learning analytics
more meaningful & ubiquitous
with semantic technologies
Thank you!
