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Slides accompanying a talk by Ari Bader-Natal (twitter: @aribadernatal) at the 1st International Conference on Learning Analytics and Knowledge. More information about this work can be found on the Grockit research page: grockit.com/blog/main/research
Transcript of Evolving a Learning Analytics Platform
Ari Bader-Natal
February 28, 2011
Evolvinga Learning Analytics Platform
Thomas [email protected]
@AriBaderNatal
Ari Bader-Natal
Ari Bader-Natal
Evolving a Learning Analytics System @AriBaderNatal
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Questions to ask when evolving a platform:
Ari Bader-Natal
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The first question
Questions to ask when evolving a platform:
Ari Bader-Natal
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The first question
The interesting questions
Questions to ask when evolving a platform:
Ari Bader-Natal
Evolving a Learning Analytics System @AriBaderNatal
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The first question
The interesting questions
The infrastructure question
Questions to ask when evolving a platform:
Ari Bader-Natal
Evolving a Learning Analytics System @AriBaderNatal
http://grockit.com
The first question
The interesting questions
The infrastructure question
The subset question
Questions to ask when evolving a platform:
Ari Bader-Natal
Evolving a Learning Analytics System @AriBaderNatal
http://grockit.com
The first question
The interesting questions
The infrastructure question
The subset question
The missing data question
Questions to ask when evolving a platform:
Ari Bader-Natal
Evolving a Learning Analytics System @AriBaderNatal
http://grockit.com
The first question
The interesting questions
The infrastructure question
The subset question
The missing data question
The pro-active question
Questions to ask when evolving a platform:
Ari Bader-Natal
Evolving a Learning Analytics System @AriBaderNatal
http://grockit.com
The first question
The interesting questions
The infrastructure question
The subset question
The missing data question
The pro-active question
The effort question
Questions to ask when evolving a platform:
Ari Bader-Natal
Evolving a Learning Analytics System @AriBaderNatal
http://grockit.com
The first question
The interesting questions
The infrastructure question
The subset question
The missing data question
The pro-active question
The effort question
The discovery question
Questions to ask when evolving a platform:
Ari Bader-Natal
Evolving a Learning Analytics System @AriBaderNatal
http://grockit.com
The first question
The interesting questions
The infrastructure question
The subset question
The missing data question
The pro-active question
The effort question
The discovery question
The production questions
Questions to ask when evolving a platform:
Ari Bader-Natal
Evolving a Learning Analytics System @AriBaderNatal
http://grockit.com
The first question
The interesting questions
The infrastructure question
The subset question
The missing data question
The pro-active question
The effort question
The discovery question
The production questions
The audience question
Questions to ask when evolving a platform:
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Evolving a Learning Analytics System @AriBaderNatal
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The context questionsWhat is Grockit? Where? Why? How?
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E-Learning
Computer-Supported Collaborative Learning
Intelligent Tutoring Systems
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System control(adaptive/IRT assessment)
Learner control(custom-specified study)
System control(adaptive study)
Asynchronous Coordination
Synchronous Coordination
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Social and motivational value of having a cohort of peers:
• opportunities to ask for assistance (just-in-time guidance)
• opportunities for discussion (both on-task and off-task)
• opportunities to earn recognition (for assisting others)
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Social and motivational value of having a cohort of peers:
• opportunities to ask for assistance (just-in-time guidance)
• opportunities for discussion (both on-task and off-task)
• opportunities to earn recognition (for assisting others)
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Study plans
Learning goals
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Recognition of achievements
Recognition from peer learners
Indicator of helpfulness
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The first questionWhat are people actually doing?
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Just look around in the database.
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Just look around in the database.
•select count(*) from learners;
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Just look around in the database.
•select count(*) from learners;
•select * from discussions;
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Just look around in the database.
•select count(*) from learners;
•select * from discussions;
•select * from responses;
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Just look around in the database.
•select count(*) from learners;
•select * from discussions;
•select * from responses;
•select avg(time) from responses
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The interesting questionsExploratory Data Analysis...
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What is effective? What is engaging?
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What is effective? What is engaging?
• How does frequency and duration of discussions during group study sessions differ between high school students and post-college learners?
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What is effective? What is engaging?
• How does frequency and duration of discussions during group study sessions differ between high school students and post-college learners?
• Do students who work in groups spend more time on task than those who choose to work alone?
Ari Bader-Natal
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What is effective? What is engaging?
• How does frequency and duration of discussions during group study sessions differ between high school students and post-college learners?
• Do students who work in groups spend more time on task than those who choose to work alone?
• Which of the various interventions within Grockit lead to the largest learning gains?
Ari Bader-Natal
Evolving a Learning Analytics System @AriBaderNatal
http://grockit.com
What is effective? What is engaging?
• How does frequency and duration of discussions during group study sessions differ between high school students and post-college learners?
• Do students who work in groups spend more time on task than those who choose to work alone?
• Which of the various interventions within Grockit lead to the largest learning gains?
• Do peer-awarded points motivate more discussion in small group settings?
Ari Bader-Natal
Evolving a Learning Analytics System @AriBaderNatal
http://grockit.com
What is effective? What is engaging?
• How does frequency and duration of discussions during group study sessions differ between high school students and post-college learners?
• Do students who work in groups spend more time on task than those who choose to work alone?
• Which of the various interventions within Grockit lead to the largest learning gains?
• Do peer-awarded points motivate more discussion in small group settings?
• How does an Item Response Theory model compare to a Knowledge Tracing model, in terms of predictive accuracy or responses?
Ari Bader-Natal
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What is effective? What is engaging?
• How does frequency and duration of discussions during group study sessions differ between high school students and post-college learners?
• Do students who work in groups spend more time on task than those who choose to work alone?
• Which of the various interventions within Grockit lead to the largest learning gains?
• Do peer-awarded points motivate more discussion in small group settings?
• How does an Item Response Theory model compare to a Knowledge Tracing model, in terms of predictive accuracy or responses?
• Are video explanations more effective than written explanations?
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Question:
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Question:
Are the questions currently available appropriate for the current population of learners?
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Question:
Are the questions currently available appropriate for the current population of learners?
• Are there enough hard questions?
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Question:
Are the questions currently available appropriate for the current population of learners?
• Are there enough hard questions?
• Are there enough easy questions?
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Question:
Are the questions currently available appropriate for the current population of learners?
• Are there enough hard questions?
• Are there enough easy questions?
Actionable:
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Question:
Are the questions currently available appropriate for the current population of learners?
• Are there enough hard questions?
• Are there enough easy questions?
Actionable:
If there isn’t a good fit, ask the content authors to start focusing on writing what is currently most needed.
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The infrastructure questionHow can we streamline analysis?
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collection
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visualization
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selection
analysis
visualization
distribution
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selection
analysis
visualization
distribution
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collection
selection
analysis
visualization
distribution
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The subset questionHow can we ask the same question of different subsets of the available data?
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Example views
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Multiple views at once.
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Multiple views at once.
Subject (e.g. Algebra)
Question
Game
Question Session
User (e.g. Ari)
Game Session
Response Chat Message
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Subject (e.g. Algebra)
Question
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Question Session
User (e.g. Ari)
Game Session
Response Chat Message
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The missing data questionWhat about actions that leave no trace?
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The pro-active questionHow can we test out new hypotheses?
The effort questionHow can we reduce friction in
experimentation and hypothesis testing?
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http://xkcd.com/552/
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R. Kohavi, R. Henne, and D. Sommerfield. Practical guide to controlled experiments on the web. In Proceedings of the 13th ACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining. ACM, 2007.
http://bit.ly/exp-long
http://bit.ly/exp-short
Eric Ries: The one line split-test, or how to A/B test all the time.
http://bit.ly/one-line-split
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InitialQuestionsShould new students be given easier questions when playing alone,
until they answer at least 5 questions correctly?This test is being assigned and evaluated for new users only.
EasyFirst NormalSubsequent activity (1657 persons) (1721 persons) (difference)
Participated in further study 73.2% (1213) 67.5% (1161) (2.6% to 8.9%) **Participated in group study 31.4% (520) 27.0% (464) (1.3% to 7.5%) *
Logged in again later 30.8% (510) 28.4% (489)Participated in group discussion 22.1% (366) 18.4% (316) (1% to 6.5%) *
Reviewed past questions 13.9% (230) 12.8% (221)
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The discovery questionHow can we deliver findings effectively?
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The production questionsScalability? Performance? Reliability?
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The audience questionHow can this help teachers and learners?
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Performance (per-skill)
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My unresolved questionIs evolving the right approach?
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YAGNI: “You Ain’t Gonna Need It”
Ron Jeffries: “Always implement things when you actually need them, never when you just foresee that you need them.”
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In the age of #BigData, how do you choose tools for analysis before your dataset is undeniably Big? Start with Big tools or YAGNI?
YAGNI: “You Ain’t Gonna Need It”
Ron Jeffries: “Always implement things when you actually need them, never when you just foresee that you need them.”
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Your unresolved questions???
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Thanks!
February 28, 2011
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