What if we could observe all events in a learning environment?

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If we could observe all the events in a learning environment, even the most hidden ones, what kind of interventions would become feasible? The presentation finishes with a workshop to manipulate a dataset with R.

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What if we could observeall events in alearning environment?

MUI-TIC, Valladolid, April 2012

Abelardo Pardo

www.slideshare.net/abelardo_pardo

@abelardopardo

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No (unwanted) surprises!

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(Campbell, De Blois, Oblinger 2007)

Collect

Report

Predict

Act

Refine

The five stepsof analytics

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Potentialinlearning

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Did they learn?

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If you can not measure it,you can not improve it.

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“We need better evaluationto acknowledge and esteem

excellence when it occurs,as it does.”

John Hattie. Visible Learning: A Synthesis of Over 800Meta-Analyses Relating to Achievement.

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Learning analytics improvethe feedback loop

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(Jones, 2011)

Administration Students

Teachers Researchers

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Where is learning analytics?

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LA as vertical market

Specialized objectives

Specialized audiences

Specialized topic

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Challenges

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More detailed observations

Keep the tutor in the loop

A clearly identifiedenvironment within

your computer

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Automatic discoveryof complementarylearning resources

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Measure engagement inout-of-class activities

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Just in time teaching

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Team dynamics

Quick intuitivefeedback

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Stakeholders observe, predict and act

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How are you?

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Moodchanges

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ScenarioData setmanipulation

Interventions!

• 15 weeks. Sessions X, F 12-13:30

• 100 students

• 7 score tests per student

• Course notes with 30 “nodes” publishedgradually

• 5 events: forum_view, forum_post,visit_node, use_tool_1, use_tool_2

Make it your own course!

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Events (events.csv.gz): around 81,000 x 4 matrix

datetime,event_type,user,payload

2011-09-05 15:26:01,use_tool_1,7a869b4d9,block_1

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Scores (scores.csv.gz): 100 x 7 matrix

user,score_1,score_2,score_3,score_4,...,score_7

7a869b4d9, 6.4, 9.0, 7.9, 7.6, 5.1, 5.5, 6.7

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Let’s explore!

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Analyze, propose, discuss

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1 What did you observe?

2 Which data is missing?

3 What would you do?

4 What would the system do?

Which challenge for LA do you envision?

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script.R

1 Load data into “data frames”

2 Show data summaries

3 Change type of column in data frame

4 View sample histogram

5 Add a column with the mean scores

6 Plot scores for one student

7 Separate events into types

8 Merge event counts with scores

Select command + CRTL-Return (Execute)

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R cheat sheet

• Data frame: heterogeneous matrix,“events.csv”

• Data frame column: events.csv$event_type

• Arrays: c(’one’, ’two’, ’three’), c(1, 2, 3),c(2:8)

• Sequences: 1:5, seq(1, 6)

• Graphics: barplot(), boxplot(), hist(), plot()

• Functions: length(), rownames(),colnames(), mean()

• cor() (correlation), var() (variance)

• mean(), median(), min(), max(), sum()

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R tests

• cor.test(v1, v2)

• wilcox.test(v1, v2)

• shapiro.test(v1)

R help

• help(any function name)

• Various cheatsheets included in workspace(cheatsheet_*.pdf)

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References

The personal analytics of my life

Stephen Wolframhttp://blog.stephenwolfram.com/2012/03/the-personal-analytics-of-my-life/

How waiters read your table

Sara NassauerThe Wall Street Journal, Feb. 22nd 2012

The illusion of privacy (and what we actually care about)

Seth Godinhttp://sethgodin.typepad.com/seths_blog/2012/02/the-illusion-of-privacy-and-what-we-actually-care-about.html

Academic Analytics

Campbell J., DeBlois P., Oblinger D.EDUCAUSE White paper, 2007

Visible learning: A synthesis of over 800 meta-analyses related to achievement

Hattie, J. A. C.Routledge, New York 2009

Learning analytics: Starvation and telling us what we already know?

David Joneshttp://davidtjones.wordpress.com/2012/04/01/learning-analytics-starvation-and-telling-us-what-we-already-know/

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