We present the collected experiences since 2012 of the Dutch Special Interest Group (SIG) for Learning Analytics in the application of the xAPI standard. We have been experimenting and exchanging best practices around the application of xAPI in various ...

Student mistakes are often not random but, rather, reflect thoughtful yet incorrect strategies. In order for educational technologies to make full use of students' performance data to estimate the knowledge of a student, it is important to model not ...

This demo presents Wikiglass, a learning analytic tool for visualizing the statistics and timelines of collaborative Wikis built by secondary school students during their group project in inquiry-based learning. The tool adopts a modular structure for ...

The affordances of learning analytics (LA) are being increasingly harnessed to enhance 21^st century (21C) pedagogy and learning. Relatively rare, however, are use cases and empirically based understandings of students' actual experiences with LA tools ...

With the aim of better scaffolding discussion to improve learning in a MOOC context, this work investigates what kinds of discussion behaviors contribute to learning. We explored whether engaging in higher-order thinking behaviors results in more ...

This study attempts to investigate to what extent indicators of academic writing and cognitive thinking can help measure the writing quality of group collaborative writings on Wikis. Particularly, comparisons were made on Wiki content in different ...

The adaptivity of intelligent tutoring systems relies on the accuracy of the student model and the design of the instructional policy. Recently an instructional policy has been presented that is compatible with all common student models. In this work we ...

This paper presents affect data collected from periodic emotion detection surveys throughout an introductory Statistics MOOC called "I Heart Stats." This is the first MOOC, to our knowledge, to capture valuable student affect data through self-reported ...

Given the importance of reading proficiency and habits for young students, an online e-quiz bank, Reading Battle, was launched in 2014 to facilitate reading improvement for primary-school students. With more than ten thousand questions in both English ...

To promote healthy awareness and activity learning, we gave 12-to 14-year-old youth activity monitors (Fitbits) to track their physical activity, which was then integrated into a videogame we created. The players' real-world steps transform into in-game ...

The "doer effect" is an association between the number of online interactive practice activities students' do and their learning outcomes that is not only statistically reliable but has much higher positive effects than other learning resources, such as ...

Two research teams from the University of Melbourne's Learning Analytics Research Group used validation as applied in educational measurement to provide a framework for collaboration. One team was focussed on defining and building measures of learning ...

When used effectively, reflective writing tasks can deepen learners' understanding of key concepts, help them critically appraise their developing professional identity, and build qualities for lifelong learning. As such, reflecting writing is ...

Our previous work has demonstrated that players who perceive a game as more challenging are likely to perceive greater learning from that game [8]. However, this may not be the case for all sources of challenge. In this study of a Science learning game ...

Journal writing is an important and common reflective practice in education. Students' reflection journals also offer a rich source of data for formative assessment. However, the analysis of the textual reflections in class of large size presents ...

In this paper, we present the results of an exploratory study that examined the problem of automating content analysis of student online discussion transcripts. We looked at the problem of coding discussion transcripts for the levels of cognitive ...

Models of learning in EDM and LAK are pushing the boundaries of what can be measured from large quantities of historical data. When controlled randomization is present in the learning platform, such as randomized ordering of problems within a problem ...

One of the most common gamification techniques in education is the use of badges as a reward for making specific student actions. We propose two indicators to gain insight about students' intentionality towards earning badges and use them with data from ...

This paper explores the potential of analytics for improving accessibility of e-learning and supporting disabled learners in their studies. A comparative analysis of completion rates of disabled and non-disabled students in a large five-year dataset is ...

How can we best align learning analytics practices with disciplinary knowledge practices in order to support student learning? Although learning analytics itself is an interdisciplinary field, it tends to take a 'one-size-fits-all' approach to the ...