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Slides of the paper presented at the Ideas and Innovation session in First International Conference on Learning Analytics and Knowledge.
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Abelardo PardoAbelardo Pardo, Carlos Delgado Kloos, Carlos Delgado KloosUniversity Carlos III of Madrid, SpainUniversity Carlos III of Madrid, Spain
Stepping out of the box Toward analytics outside the LMS
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Warning: From macro to micro
Apply analytics to everyday operations
in a course.
Toward highly focused quick
actuators
!Micro doesnotmean simple
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The scenario• Second year engineering• Class meets twice a week• Active learning (U work, I
work)1.Learn how to program in C
2.Use “industrial” tools
3.Work in teams
4.Increase your self-learning
• Work in pairs and in teams• Significant out-of-class activity
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The problem
• LMS = Forum
• Intense activity outside LMS.
• Can we record the interaction?
• Can we take measures?
• Can we act over 250 students?
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The solution
• Think as a student
• Offer fully configured environment for the course
• Offer doc. sharing
• Attract course activity to that environment
• Capture, report, predict, act and refine
• Total transparency!
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Virtual Machines• A (guest) computer in a
file (8 Gigabytes)• Runs as a regular
application in your (host) PC
• When in full window, almost as running another operating system
• Access to files in “host” machine
• Available 1st day
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Internals
• Instrumentation of main tools
• Record when tools are used
• Relay data to server when updating shared documents
• Transparent to the user• User confirms terms of use
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Advantages• Closer insight on
procedural activities• Limited to the course
environment• Limited in time• Observe some
“elusive” behavior– Ability to use modern
engineering tools– Ability to function in
multidisciplinary teams
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On-going work
• First data set collected: Sep./Dic. 10. Observed 248 Students
• Used by 85% of them
• Encoded in CAM
• 48K events
• Beginning to report, towards “act”
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Browsing outside the LMS
• 48K events: 15,5K are URLs (32.07%)
• 8,669 unique pages
• 28.51% point to the LMS
• Conclusion: 3 out of 4 pages are outside the LMS.
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Conclusions
• VMs offer a good trade-off for course environment
• Advantages to students
• Potential for high observability
• Oriented toward quick actuators
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