what is learning analytics about?

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

mohammad.khalil@tugraz.at

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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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Psychology

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Pedagogy

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* 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?

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Mohammad Khalil & Martin Ebner, Graz University of Technology

Educational Technology