Exploring Inquiry-Based Learning Analytics through Interactive Surfaces

Learning Analytics is about collecting traces that learners leave behind and using those traces to improve learning. Dashboard applications can visualize these traces to present learners and teachers with useful information. The work in this paper is based on traces from an inquiry-based learning (IBL) environment, where learners create hypotheses, discuss findings and collect data in the field using mobile devices. We present a work-in-progress that enables teachers and learners to gather around an interactive tabletop to explore the abundance of learning traces an IBL environment generates, and help collaboratively make sense of them, so as to facilitate insights.