Analytics of Information Flows and Decision Making in Heterogeneous

Learning Ecosystems

Juan Cruz-Benito

Roberto Therón Francisco J. García-Peñalvo

!GRIAL Research Group

Department of Computer and Automatics University of Salamanca !

TEEM’14 Conference, October 1st, 2014 !juancb@usal.es

@_juancb

Learning online processes Students use several technological ecosystems for learning

How can I get insight about this learning process? How can teachers understand these insights in order to improve the learning process?

What is the problem?

Know what happens in this kind of learning environments Analyse these learning evidences

Help teachers to improve the learning processes by using the knowledge raised by the analysis of the evidences

What I want to do?

Review the State of the Art of Learning Analytics and related research fields Define how to retrieve evidences from heterogeneous learning ecosystems

Define data analysis processes to treat these evidences Define data visualisations that allow the analyst (teachers) to understand the analysis and later apply this knowledge to improve the learning processes and make decisions.

Goals

Data Science Software Engineering

Visual Analytics Decision Making

Research areas related

That’s the point in this PhD project (and almost in all)

How can I achieve the goals?

Action Research Methodology Development - Test - Review - Improve

How can I achieve the goals?

Proposal of software/data architecture to bind/store data from heterogeneous learning ecosystems

Use and propose (if it is necessary) algorithms to get valuable knowledge from the learning evidences retrieved from those ecosystems

Propose and test data visualisations and other tools for visual analytics that help teachers to make decisions about the students’ learning path and improve it

Expected outcomes

Analytics of Information Flows and Decision Making in Heterogeneous

Learning Ecosystems

Juan Cruz-Benito

Roberto Therón Francisco J. García-Peñalvo

!GRIAL Research Group

Department of Computer and Automatics University of Salamanca !

TEEM’14 Conference, October 1st, 2014 !juancb@usal.es

@_juancb