Learning Analyticsand Learning Resources

EdReNe Copenhagen, October 2015

Jan HylénSkolverket

jan.hylen@skolverket.seSkype: jan_hylen

What is Learning Analytics?

• ”Learning Analytics is about collecting traces that learners leave behind and using those traces to improve learning.”

(Eric Duval, Cath Univ of Leuven)

What is Learning Analytics?

• From school bus – same pace and same route for everyone

What is Learning Analytics?

• To personalised education

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What is Learning Analytics and LACE?

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Work Package 4: Schools – Objectives

• Bring together disparate communities with related interests

• Capture and disseminate the latest thinking on learning analytics in practice

• Analyse significant developments and issues in the domain and produce reports

• Identify, collect and synthesise claims and evidence for the benefits of learning analytics

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The current situation in Europe

• Few governmental initiatives

• Low awareness among decion-makers and decision-shapers

• Growing numbers of commercial initiatives – mostly small scale

Three(?) emerging strategies

Learning Analytics module

Learning resource module

Learning resource module

Learning analytics

integrated into the learning

resourceAdaptive testing system

Modular approach Integrated approach Stand alone approach

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Stand alone approach – adaptive testing (SE)

The stand alone approach (NO)

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Integrated approach: Math Garden (NL)

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A garden that needs maintainens

• From primary school –

• Encourages weekly practice – otherwise the garden withers

• Rewards: blooming plants and virtual coins (which can be exchanged)

• Automatically adjusts the difficulty of math exercises to the ability level of the user

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Back end provides detailed information about the users

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Integrated approach: Studi.se (SE)

• Videos (also with sub-titles in many languages), texts and quizzes

• Feedback to both the student and the teacher

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Modular approach(?): Learnbeat (NL)

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Modular approach: Läraktiv (SE)

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Example 6: Interactive Flipped Classroom (SWE)

• Based on the flipped classroom method• Makes the students more active in the classroom• But they are still quite passive when looking at

videos• Technical platform which helps the teacher to

cut the videos in smaller chunks and add quizzes• Also possible for students to stop the video and

write questions to the teacherUnder development!

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Feedback to the teacher

• How many have looked at the video (and when)?

• How did the group score on the quizzez?

• Which parts did they found (particularly) hard?

• Where they confused by the teachers examples?

• Specific questions feeded back to the teacher before the lesson

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The quizz question

Correct answers Wrong answers

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Why do you subtract 4/9? The students can stop the video and write questions if needed

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Future developments – issues for discussion

• Traditional textbook publishers or upcoming dot.coms?

• Are the three approaches described the only ones, or are there more approaches?

• Which approach(es) will be more successful?• What about OERs and learning analytics?• Will there be “open analytics”?• Will there be adaptive tests in other subjects

than mathematics?

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1 day seminar on Learning Analytics

• Purpose: To introduce main themes, opportunities and challenges of Learning Analytics

• We provide:– A tested seminar format targeting practitioners, decision makers,

researchers and ICT business– Speakers who can give an introduction to Learning Analytics– Names of international experts– Use cases from other countries

• You provide– Venue– Local experts

• Together we create an arena for a burgeoning debate on Learning Analytics in your country

An offer you ca

n’t

refuse ;-)

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Thank you for your attention!

jan.hylen@skolverket.se

This work was undertaken as part of the LACE Project, supported by the European Commission Seventh Framework Programme, grant 619424.

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