Learning analytics as data ecology: a tentative proposal

A Fuzzy TOPSIS Approach for Big Data Analytics Platform Selection

Big data sizes are constantly increasing. Big data analytics is where advanced analytic techniques are applied on big data sets. Analytics based on large data samples reveals and leverages business change. The popularity of big data analytics platforms, which are often available as open-source, has not remained unnoticed by big companies. Google uses MapReduce for PageRank and inverted indexes....

Dialogue as Data in Learning Analytics for Productive Educational Dialogue

This paper provides a novel, conceptually driven stance on the state of the contemporary analytic challenges faced in the treatment of dialogue as a form of data across onand offline sites of learning. In prior research, preliminary steps have been taken to detect occurrences of such dialogue using automated analysis techniques. Such advances have the potential to foster effective dialogue usin...

Data Models in Learning Analytics

There are many different ways and models how to characterize usage data to enable representation of user actions across learning management system, and systems in general. Based on this data, learning analytics can perform different analysis and provide personalized and meaningful information to improve the learning and teaching processes. There is a variety of usage data formats that are alrea...

Learning Analytics as a Metacognitive Tool

The use of learning analytics is entering in the field of research in education as a promising way to support learning. However, in many cases data are not transparent for the learner. In this regard, Educational institutions shouldn’t escape the need of making transparent for the learners how their personal data is being tracked and used in order to build inferences, as well as how its use is ...

NGCRC Project Proposal Intelligent Autonomous Systems Based on Data Analytics and Machine Learning