a cross-platform interoperable component for course analytics
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A cross-platform interoperable component for course analytics
Track 12: Educational InnovationSalamanca, 2, November, 2016
Daniel Pérez BerenguerCentro de Producción de Contenidos Digitales, UPCT
Jesús García MolinaUniversidad de Murcia, [email protected]
Contents
• Motivation• Tracking component characteristics• Interoperability• Related works• Conclusions and future work
MotivationThe analysis of student learning tracking data collected throughout a course can be a very valuable source of information, allowing teachers and students to improve their teaching and learning processes.
Storage, visualization and exportation of the tracking information are required
Unit responsible for giving support to teachers in the creation of educational online content.
UPCTforma is an environment developed by the CPCD which includes an authoring tool for creating educational multimedia content, along with evaluation, gamification, authentication and tracking components.
Architecture
Tool that facilitates the storage, visualization and exportation of the tracking information.
Independent: Tracking information independently to the e-learning platforms on which the courses can be deployed.
Common tracking data: Allows register tracking data common to any element which forms a part of the course.
Specific tracking data: It is possible to define specific data for particular elements.
Visualization and exportation: Users are identified (students or teacher) personalizing the information.
Tracking component
Common tracking data
Objectives achieved.
Grades obtained.
Number of entries.
Time spent
Specific tracking data
Each of the student’s attempts can be stored.
A concept may not have been correctly understood if a large number of students have made the same mistakes in their first attempts.
Amount of time each student spends watching a video and the number of times the video is put on “pause” or “play” can be defined
Visualization and exportation
Visualization for grades, progress of each student in the different units, number of entries or the time spent.
Allows export to Excel.
Interoperability I
• LTI (Learning Tools Interoperability) provides a standard way of integrating learning applications in e-learning platforms:
Tool Consumer (TC): e-learning platforms. Tool Providers (TP): UPCTforma.
• UPCTforma uses LTI, which is widely supported by most LMS and MOOC platforms.
• The TSUGI framework has been used to convert our tracking component into a TP.
Storage, visualization and exportation of the tracking information
It sends the score obtained to be stored in the gradebook of the e-learning platform.
• To create a link from an e-learning platform, it is necessary to have:
Absolute URL of our tracking component. Consumer key (provided by TSUGI) Shared secret (provided by TSUGI)
Interoperability II
Interoperability scenario
Related Work• None of the other tools allows the creation of
learning objectives or LTI Support• They can only interoperate with LMS.• Only the time spent or their completion.
eXeLearning Ardora 7 Xerte JCLIC CourseLab Easygenerator
UDUTU UPCTforma
C1C2 SCORM SCORM (only
activities)SCORM SCORM (only
activities)SCORM SCORM SCORM SCORM/ LTI
C3 Time and completed
Only activities (time and
completed)
Time and completed
Only activities (time and
completed)
Only time Only completed
Only completed
Customizable (attempts,
time, completed, by
activity, …)C4 LMS LMS LMS LMS LMS LMS LMS LMS/ MOOCC5 Free Free Free Free Free /
PropietaryPropietary Propietary Free
• Common and specific tracking data can be established independently from the e-learning platforms.
• Normalization of registered course data.• The maintenance of the tracking component
is favored.• Facilitates monitoring and analysis through
the visualization and export of the tracking information
Conclusions
• Transform the tracking component to use framework Caliper, to allow:– Sharing the tracking data generated by UPCTforma
with other learning tools. – Integrating the learning activity data of different e-
learning platforms with UPCTforma, which would facilitate a single view of all this information.
– Presenting the tracking data in a standard format for its use in learning analytics.
Future work
Thanks for your attention!