Manolis Mavrikis UCL Institute of Education, University College London

Learning Analytics forExploratory and Experiential Learning

Potentials and Pitfalls

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Support for Exploratory and Experiential Learning Constructionism Learning by doing

hands-on laboratory experiments

inquiry learning practice-based learning

simulations microworlds

serious games coding

Exploratory and Experiential Learning

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EXAMPLES FROM EU FP7 PROJECTS

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Similarities in practice-based learningacross 3 contexts

• Flexible project choice– Student-led– authentic discipline-related questions

• Collaborative• Support student self-assessment

High school Engineering

Interaction Design

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- Electronics kit- Embedded electronics- Camera and motion sensing- Software- Server

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What can LA offer?

• Support the teacher/facilitator • Increase learner awareness and encouraging reflection

– Learning how to learn (together) – Learning how to make

• Help address research questions

Classroom dynamics

Goal achievement

Educational Data Miningand Visualisations

Bayesian networks from data

degree of goal completeness

time in related pages time spent

on attempts

need for help

previous performance

difficulty

features

class

Mavrikis, 2010

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Teacher Visualization

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Barriers to achieving LA potential

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Literacy on decision-making with LA

This project has received funding from the European’s Seventh Framework Programme for research technological development and demonstrations under grant agreement 619738

Acknowledgements

Sokratis Karkalas (Phd@BBK)

MCSquaredKaterina Avramides Mutlu Cukurova Rose Luckin

PELARS (UCL-IOE)

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Daniel Spikol (Malmo) Lorna Stokes (ENOLL) Emanuele Ruffaldi (SSSA) Sergio Gutierrez-Santos (BBK)

Alice HanseniTalk2learn

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This project has received funding from the European’s Seventh Framework Programme for research technological development and demonstrations under grant agreement 619738

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