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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
http://bentleygsa.org/gmo/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/photo.png
New Conceptual Design: App-like GUI
Text
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: [email protected]
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
...
- 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