In recent years, many higher education institutions have invested in the development of Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs). With the increase of available MOOC data, there is an opportunity to provide insights to educators and developers into learners’ behaviors through learning analytics. Focusing on the FutureLearn platform (FL), standardized data files are offered to partner institutions. A...

In this paper we describe the rationale, design and evaluation of a widget-based dashboard to support scholars’ awareness in Research Networks. We introduce the concept of Research Networks and discuss Personal Research Environments that exist parallel to Personal Learning Environments in today’s modern working realm. Based on the results of an international interview study we designed a paper ...

Compliance with, implementation of, and monitoring of evidence-based guidelines can be challenging in clinical environments. We created a real-time patient safety dashboard, deployed since June 2011. We report on our current research to make it very easy to go from a clinical specification to deployment, thus enabling clinicians to specify (and change) clinical status conditions and to automate...

Online social networking concept is a global phenomenon and there are millions of sites which help in being connected with friends and family. This project focuses on creating self-portfolios for the users which makes the users engaging with their skills. The users follow the other users to interact and communicate with them. Users can encourage the other user’s blogs and videos by clicking the...

The Internet plays a major role as a source of news. Many publishers offer online versions of their newspapers to paying customers. Online newspapers bear more similarity with traditional print papers than with regular news sites. In a close collaboration with Mediengruppe Madsack publisher of newspapers in several German federal states, we aim at providing a semantically enriched online newspa...

Problem-based learning (PBL) refers to a student-centered pedagogy in which students collaborate with each other to solve complex problems. There are many benefits to this approach, such as improving student problem-solving skills, developing group-work skills and motivation. However, it is built upon low student-teacher ratios, which places increased demands on instructors, making traditional ...

BACKGROUND Stroke is a leading cause of disability worldwide, with upper limb deficits affecting an estimated 30% to 60% of survivors. The effectiveness of upper limb rehabilitation relies on numerous factors, particularly patient compliance to home programs and exercises set by therapists. However, therapists lack objective information about their patients' adherence to rehabilitation exercise...

This article defines the standardized elements used in the building blocks portal design framework in detail, as the second in a series of articles on a Portal Design Framework. This article explains the (simple) rules and relationships for combining Containers and Connectors into portal structures. This article shares best practices, examples, and guidelines for effectively using the building ...

Learning Analytics Dashboards (LAD) provide a means to leverage data to support learners, teachers, and counselors. This paper reports on an in-depth analysis of how learners interact with a LAD. N=1,406 first-year students in 12 different study programs were invited to use a LAD to support them in their transition from secondary to higher education. The LAD provides actionable feedback about f...

Exploring and managing the abundance of data that Learning Analytics generate is a challenge for both teachers and students. This paper introduces a Learning Dashboard that provides an overview, context and content of learner traces to help students with awareness of feedback and progress, and assist teachers with monitoring student effort and outcomes to intervene where needed.