Learning Analytics

ABSTRACT

With more and more of our learning happening in digital spaces (already before, but especially after the pandemic hit), great challenges and opportunities have been unearthed in educational research and practice. Monitoring, finding struggling learners and supporting the learning process has become more difficult for instructors. Yet, the traces of learners’ behavior online (and also in the physical world, thanks to cheaper sensing technologies) may also hold the key to make instructor support more accurate and to scale it up to larger numbers of students. Further, these detailed data increasingly available can help researchers achieve a new understanding of how learning processes unfold.

In this webinar, we will gain an initial understanding of the research field that tackles these challenges and opportunities: learning analytics (LA). Through hands-on individual and group activities, participants will be exposed to a variety of real LA technologies and conceptual frameworks, so that they can both define LA and understand its benefits and risks – both as a fascinating field of study, and as a tool that educational scientists and practitioners can exploit to better understand and support learning.

LEARNING OUTCOMES

After the course, participant PhD students will:

• … be able to define learning analytics in their own words.
• … understand what kinds of learning analytics solutions are possible (i.e., what is the design space of LA)
• … understand the potential benefits and risks that LA technologies can bring, for educational research and practice
• … be familiar with multiple LA tools, as well as underlying technologies and learning resources where they can deepen their knowledge of this research field and its practice

COURSE PLATFORM

All DETEL webinars are supplied with additional materials in mini-courses on the open Tech4comp platform. Please enroll in the webinar’s Moodle course.

HOW TO JOIN

The link to join the webinar will be sent to all registered participants. The registration will remain open for the duration of the webinar series (until 2 July 2021). Register now!