Visualizations of User Data in a Social Media Enhanced Web-based Environment in Higher Education

Silius, Kirsi; Tervakari, Anne-Maritta; Kailanto, Meri

doi:10.3991/ijet.v8is2.2740

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“…Abstract the LA data: LA data can be visualised in multiple ways [41,15], depending on the audience and desired message. LA prediction systems create notifications and visualisations to warn users and impact retention [1,16], while structural and content analysis help teachers gain insights at higher levels [31].…”

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Creating Effective Learning Analytics Dashboards: Lessons Learnt

Charleer

Klerkx

Duval

et al. 2016

Adaptive and Adaptable Learning

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Learning Analytics (LA) dashboards help raise student and teacher awareness regarding learner activities. In blog-supported and inquiry-based learning courses, LA data is not limited to student activities, but also contains an abundance of digital learner artefacts, such as blog posts, hypotheses, and mind-maps. Exploring peer activities and artefacts can help students gain new insights and perspectives on learning efforts and outcomes, but requires effort. To help facilitate facilitate and promote this exploration, we present the lessons learnt during and guidelines derived from the design, deployment and evaluation of five dashboards.

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Section: Lessons Learnt and Guidelinesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Creating Effective Learning Analytics Dashboards: Lessons Learnt

Charleer

Klerkx

Duval

et al. 2016

Adaptive and Adaptable Learning

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“…Well-designed visualizations of user data can provide teachers with valuable insight into student activity and participation, and thus, help evaluate the quality of a course's instructional design. [5] The use of visualizations as a learning tool sets new requirements for teachers. The integration of social media into online learning environments sets new quality factors, which are not always apparent.…”

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A tool for evaluating social media enhanced learning environments

Silius

Tervakari

Pirttila

et al. 2014

2014 IEEE Global Engineering Education Conference (EDUCON)

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The evaluation tool WeSQu 1 was developed to help evaluators pay attention to critical quality factors of social media enhanced learning environment and provide guidelines to support implementation of high-quality educational web services. The WeSQu (earlier ARVO) tool is a web based evaluation tool that was developed in 2003 (updated 2008 and 2013) at Intelligent Information Systems Laboratory (IISLab), Tampere University of Technology (TUT), in cooperation with the Finnish Virtual University (FVU) to help the improvement of web based learning. In 2013 hypermedia experts at IISLab evaluated the renewed WeSQu tool in order to find out 1. if the background theories behind the original evaluation questions and the questions themselves are still relevant, and 2. if the improved functionalities and new added functionalities can support reliable evaluation.

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“…In earlier research, we concentrated on researching learning analytics and user data visualizations in a social media enhanced learning environment from the learner's perspective [1], [2], [3], [4]. In an educational context, learning analytics tools for teachers are as remarkable as learning analytics tools for the learners.…”

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“…The use of social media enhanced learning environments in teaching and learning is common nowadays, as it enables teachers to record and store data on students' communicative, collaborative, and participative actions automatically [1], [2], [3], [4], [5]. Before the data stored in log files can be utilized for didactical purposes, the data need to be analyzed using methods of learning analytics.…”

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Teachers' learning analytics tools in a social media enhanced learning environment

Tervakari

Kuosa

Koro

et al. 2014

2014 International Conference on Interactive Collaborative Learning (ICL)

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In this paper, we introduce the results of a study concerning the usefulness of learning analytics tools implemented in the TUT Circle, a social media enhanced learning environment, from the teachers' point of view. According to the results of the study, learning analytics tools with interactive visualizations can help teachers utilize data about students' actions recorded in log files of learning environments for didactical purposes. The tool can help teachers to make decisions regarding potential pedagogical strategies, instructional guidance, actions, and interventions that may be used to support student participation and activity. The ability to access real time information about students' actions, compare students' activities during the course, and identify students who might be at risk of failing or dropping out are of significant benefit to the teachers. However, in order to support teachers in obtaining more practical value from the learning analytics tools the controls for specifying the data and manipulating views need to be developed further.

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Visualizations of User Data in a Social Media Enhanced Web-based Environment in Higher Education

Cited by 10 publications

References 10 publications

Creating Effective Learning Analytics Dashboards: Lessons Learnt

Creating Effective Learning Analytics Dashboards: Lessons Learnt

A tool for evaluating social media enhanced learning environments

Teachers' learning analytics tools in a social media enhanced learning environment

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