Smart Learning Excellence Conference, Dubai 2016

1. What is Learning
Analytics About?
A Survery of Different
Methods Used in 2013-2015
Mohammad Khalil & Martin Ebner, Graz University of Technology
Mohammad Khalil & Martin Ebner
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2. Mohammad Khalil
Ph.D. Candidate
Graz University of
Technology, Austria
@TuMohdKhalil
mohammad.khalil@tugraz.at
Slides Available at: http://bit.do/ia9_la
http://elearningblog.tugraz.at
http://mohdkhalil.wordpress.com

3. What is Learning
Analytics ?

4. “
An Emerging field that is applied in
different educational settings, for
purposes of doing proper interventions
and improving education

5. Main process of Learning Analytics
◎ Collecting
◎ Analysis
◎ Acting
Khalil, M., & Ebner, M. (2015, June). Learning Analytics: Principles and Constraints.
In Proceedings of World Conference on Educational Multimedia, Hypermedia and
Telecommunications (pp. 1326-1336).

6. Big Data
Concept
Various Methods to
analyse educational data
sets

7. Goals of this study
Establish a future
forecast towards
new research work
Help Researcher to
identify the
common methods
Compare the
beginning view
and the ongoing
current vision

8. 91Surveyed Papers
78Considered Publications
Research Design

9. Learning Analytics Disciplines
Computer Science
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Education
Education
Psychology
Statistics
Pedagogy
Machine Learning

10. Methods
http://wallpapers.brothersoft.com/track-and-field-93927.html

11. * Some papers share more than single category

12. Data Mining Techniques
“tends to make sense of data”
◎ Most used methods
◎ Classification, Regression,
Clustering, REP-trees…etc.

13. Statistics and Mathematics
“measuring ,controlling and understanding data”
◎ Inferential and descriptive
statistics and mathematics
◎ mean, median, standard
deviation, markov chain…

14. Text Mining, Semantics &
Linguistic Analysis
“text and discourse analysis”
◎ Used for assessment purposes,
enhance collaborative writing and
predicition.
◎ Methods like ontologies, Natural
Language Processing, mining
text…

15. Visualization
“information is visually presented”
◎ Used to predict students
are risk, awareness tools,
dashboards
◎ heatmaps, scatterplots,
flowcharts…

16. Social Network Analysis
“Relationships between entities”
◎ Used to investigate
connections between
learners, teachers and
resources.
◎ Predict weak or strong ties

17. Qualitative Analysis
“descisions based on explained descriptions”
◎ Used to understand nature of
discussion forums, and to
investigate needs.
◎ Methods like qualitative
evaluation, qualitative reviews
and qualitative meta-analysis…

18. Gamification
“using game mechanics to make learning fun”
◎ Used to improve students
performance, and building a
gamified grading systems
◎ Methods like reward points,
progress bars, badges and 3d
immersive environment.

19. Prominent &
Popular methods
GoogleScholar, Density Plot.

20. Google Scholar Citations
MOOCs articles are
the most cited
papers

21. Density Plot

22. Is Learning Analytics always
great?
• Privacy
• Transparency
• Security
• Ownership

23. Mohammad Khalil
Thanks!
@TuMohdKhalil
mohammad.khalil@tugraz.at
http://mohdkhalil.wordpress.com
Slides Available at: http://bit.do/ia9_la
http://elearningblog.tugraz.at
Mohammad Khalil & Martin Ebner, Graz University of Technology
Educational Technology