Learning Analytics Cookbook by unknow

Author:unknow
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9783030433772
Publisher: Springer International Publishing

4.1 Appetizer

Policymakers recognize student-centered approaches as efficient ways to make students more proficient in their learning. However, such student-centered approaches require students to take ownership of their learning, so students must develop skills like reflection, self-regulation, metacognition, and self-assessment that help them to be autonomous, while teachers need to follow students’ progress and to intervene in their learning when needed. These two aspects of a student-centered approach can be facilitated with learning analytics.

One of the problems that teachers face when using learning analytics in an educational platform—if one even exists—is the visualizations’ lack of flexibility. Usually, they are fixed and given by the system designers, so they may not fit the learning purpose or the teacher’s objectives. Therefore, teachers might not find learning analytics the perfect instrument for helping them monitor and support their students.

We address this issue in this recipe by introducing DojoIBL (Suárez et al. 2016, 2017) in the preparation section and then showing in the cooking section how teachers can easily create their own visualizations in the system. Teachers can create courses, projects, or seminars, and the students can follow them in a structured way. The recipe ends with a concrete example of how a teacher with no previous experience with the system can easily create a visualization for his or her specific scenario. We promise that, in less than an hour, you could be using DojoIBL with your students and using customized learning analytics dashboards to monitor them.

Preparation Time: 1 h

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