Presentation of the Lea's Box project by Michael Kickmeier-Rust at the "Policies for Educational Data Mining and Learning Analytics" Briefing held on April 15 in Brussels.

1. Games and Learning Alliance
Learn! Or is it?
What’s there in terms of
educationally smart technologies
(for games)
Dr. Michael Kickmeier-Rust

2. www.leas-box.eu leas-box@tugraz.at
Lea’s Box: Project Setup
Translating ITS ideas to real European classrooms 

3. Oh ya!  …

4. So, we’d need formatively
inspired evaluation/assessment

5. … to teach properly!

6. … to teach all individuals properly
using smart technology!

7. www.leas-box.eu leas-box@tugraz.at
LEA’s BOX stands for a Learning Analytics toolBOX
that supports
• a competence-centred, multi-source formative assessment
methodology
• on the foundations of sound psycho-pedagogical models
(i.e., Competence-based Knowledge Space Theory and
Formal Concept Analysis)
• intelligent model-based reasoning services
• innovative visualization techniques
• tailored to the concrete demands and requirements of
teachers and learners
Project Setup

8. www.leas-box.eu leas-box@tugraz.at
In Essence …
Joining creativity – information – didactics – mathetics – and the understanding
the learning is most individual!

10. www.leas-box.eu leas-box@tugraz.at
Model validation
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Lattice view of student
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Key Research: Yes, it’s .
complicated behind!

11. www.leas-box.eu leas-box@tugraz.at
But simple at the front end!

12. www.leas-box.eu leas-box@tugraz.at
But simple at the front end!

13. www.leas-box.eu leas-box@tugraz.at
Make it happen!
What it takes:
• Better tech. infrastructure or even
cooler LA/EDM algorithms?
…. Buuh, perhaps.
• Tailored and realistic tools? …. YES!
• Teacher training? …. ABSOLUTELY!
• Communication? …. Most important!!!

14. Visit me at
www.leas-box.eu
Dr. Michael Kickmeier-Rust
Knowledge Technologies Institute
Graz University of Technology
michael.kickmeier-rust@tugraz.at