Perceiving Learning at a Glance: A Systematic Literature Review of Learning Dashboard Research

Awareness Is Not Enough: Pitfalls of Learning Analytics Dashboards in the Educational Practice

“…Learning analytics dashboards are "single displays that aggregate different indicators about learner (s), learning process(es) and/or learning context(s) into one or multiple visualizations" [35]. Dashboards have been developed for different stakeholder groups, including learners, teachers, researchers or administrative staff [35].…”

“…Learning analytics dashboards are "single displays that aggregate different indicators about learner (s), learning process(es) and/or learning context(s) into one or multiple visualizations" [35]. Dashboards have been developed for different stakeholder groups, including learners, teachers, researchers or administrative staff [35]. Charleer et al [5] suggest that LA dashboards could be used as powerful metacognitive tools for learners, triggering them to reason about the effort invested in the learning activities and learning outcomes.…”

“…Charleer et al [5] suggest that LA dashboards could be used as powerful metacognitive tools for learners, triggering them to reason about the effort invested in the learning activities and learning outcomes. However, a large majority of dashboards are still aimed at teachers, or at both teachers and learners [35]. Moreover, there has been very little research in terms of what effects such tools have on learning [26].…”

“…Yoo et al [47] reviewed the design and evaluation of 10 educational dashboards for teachers and students through their proposed evaluative tool based on Few's principles of dashboard design [15] and Kirkpatrick's four-level evaluation model [25]. A more recent systematic review by Schwendimann et al [35] of 55 dashboards looked at the context in which dashboards had been deployed, their purpose, the displayed indicators, the technologies used, the maturity of the evaluation and open issues.…”

“…Moreover, [35] and [4] provide recommendations for the design of learner dashboards, but none suggest the use of educational concepts as a basis for the design or evaluation of the dashboards. Through this systematic literature review we aim to bridge this gap by investigating the relation between educational concepts and the design of learning dashboards.…”