Educational Data Mining in an Open-Ended Remote Laboratory on Electric Circuits. Goals and Preliminary Results

WebLab-Deusto is a learning environment used at the University of Deusto as the landing platform to several remote laboratories currently used in high school and university level courses. One of these remote labs is VISIR, a remote electricity kit that can be used in teaching DC and AC circuits. As happens in any openended educational environment, it is difficult to assess the learning effects of this tool. Fortunately the communication between the users and the VISIR remote lab in the WeblabDeusto leaves behind a set of log information that can be analyzed. This contribution presents our current work-in-progress in analyzing these logs for better understanding the learning processes that take place when using this remote lab.