Learning Analytics in Personal Learning Environment

Martin Ebner, Behnam Taraghi, Selver Softic, Laurens De Vocht

What is a PLE ?

http://www.flickr.com/photos/alancleaver/2441359074

According to Stephen Downes a PLE is ...

a future learning environment

http://www.flickr.com/photos/skippytpe/256929499

According to Stephen Downes a PLE is ...

not an institutional or coporate application but a learning center

http://www.flickr.com/photos/alysser/2011022884

According to Stephen Downes a PLE is ...

where content is reused and remixed

http://www.flickr.com/photos/alysser/2011022884

According to Stephen Downes a PLE is ...

according to the student‘s own needs and interests

Why we need a PLE ?

http://www.flickr.com/photos/toru_okada/1377360600

University a closed castle?

http://edtechpost.wikispaces.com/file/view/swl_ple2.gif (Scott Leslie, PLE Diagram)

But how can we integrate the WWW ...

http://www.flickr.com/photos/ghz/407109888/

and combine it with university‘s services?

The general concept

Comparable to iGoogle

First Design

Former Workflow

WidgetZone

Dashboard FullScreen

Widget Zoom

Mashup of Widgets

Usability Tests

http://www.flickr.com/photos/rdolishny/2760207306

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New Conceptual Design: App-like GUI

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Main new GUI Elements:Spaces (Personal Desktops)

Space ManagementWidget Store

Settings

Space Management

Widget Store

„Slideshare“ Widget (full sized view)

Inter-Widget CommunicatiounCMS widget <=> Exam Planer widget

Inter-Widget CommunicatiounArticle Reader widget <=> Vocabulary Book widget

Mac OS X Dashboard WidgetsWindows 7 Desktop Gadgets

Die Welt der WidgetsEin wichtiger Schritt zur personalisierten Lernumgebung

Ebner M., Taraghi B., Altmann T.

http://www.tugraz.athttp://www.zid.tugraz.athttp://elearning.tugraz.athttp://ple.tugraz.athttp://elearningblog.tugraz.at

Abt. Vernetztes LernenTechnische Universität GrazA-8010 Graz - Steyrergasse 30/ITel: +43 316 873 8540Email: ple@tugraz.at

Personal Learning Environment - Graz University of Technology

Next Steps towards Ubiquitousness

Mobile PLENative AppsUbiquitous PLE Desktop widgets

PLE Mobile start page and space view

PLE Mobile widget store

PLE Mobile widget Geolines

Summary after second launch

- ... more than 4000 registered users

- ... about 30% of active users

- ... observed more activity, resemblance to mobile apps

- ... learners classify their widgets using spaces

- ... widgets can send notifications

- ... Inter-Widget communication actively used.

Top most used widgets out of 75 totally

- consist of university services:Zid news (>2000), TUGMail (>1000), TUG online

(>1000), Exam planer (>200), TeachCenter (>1000), TUGraz Newsgroups (>1000)

- further top most used 10 widgetsWeather forecast (>200), Culture calendar of Graz

(>200), Google Maps (>200), Widget Development Guide (>100)

- followingdict.leo.org, dict.cc, TU Graz calendar, Facebook

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- most used widgets vs. most installed widgets

- known services are installed mostly

- widgets can be embedded now in any environment

- PLE statistics are public NOW via a twitter channel

@PLETUGraz

Analysis of widget usage

- @PLETUGraz twitter channel used as data set

- 4000 users over two years

- Data include:

- Users

- Timestamp

- Activity

- Widget

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Dimensions of PLE measuring confidence

Semantic based approach

- used to enrich dataset for further processing in PLE Analytics Dashboard

- RDF is used for interchange between modules

- LearningContext Ontology used from IntelLEO EU project

- SPARQL as query labguage

http://www.intelleo.eu/ontologies/learning-context/spec/

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PLE Analytics Dashboard

Visualizes the PLE confidence (widgets, activities, users)

PLE Analytics Results (activities)

PLE Analytics Results (widgets)

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PLE Analytics Results (users)

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PLE Analytics Results (users)

Analytics Dashboard helps to

- monitor the behavior of individual users

- analyze (un)popular activities => overall users‘ interest

- measure the quality / implicit rating of the widgets

- recommend widgets to users (collaborative filtering)

Future plan

- Apply PLE Analytics for specific courses

- Analyze learner‘s behavior in detail

- Map users‘ monitored actions to their learning results

Graz University of Technology

SOCIAL LEARNINGComputer and Information Services

Graz University of Technology

Martin Ebner

http://elearning.tugraz.at

TU Graz Personal Learning Environment

https://my.tugraz.at

Slides available at: http://elearningblog.tugraz.at

mebner

Graz University of Technology

Graz University of Technology

SOCIAL LEARNINGComputer and Information Services

Graz University of Technology

Martin Ebner

http://elearning.tugraz.athttp://elearningblog.tugraz.at

Slides available at: http://elearningblog.tugraz.at

mebner

TU Graz Personal Learning Environment https://my.tugraz.at