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- research-articleJune 2024
Will a Skills Passport ever get me through the lifelong learning border?: Two critical challenges facing personalised user models for lifelong learning
UMAP '24: Proceedings of the 32nd ACM Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation and PersonalizationJune 2024, Pages 132–142https://doi.org/10.1145/3627043.3659564Lifelong personalised learning is often described as the holy grail of the educational data sciences, but work on the topic is sporadic and we are yet to achieve this goal in a meaningful form. In the wake of the skills shortages arising from national ...
- Work in ProgressMay 2024
Untangling Critical Interaction with AI in Students’ Written Assessment
CHI EA '24: Extended Abstracts of the 2024 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing SystemsMay 2024, Article No.: 357, Pages 1–6https://doi.org/10.1145/3613905.3651083Artificial Intelligence (AI) has become a ubiquitous part of society, but a key challenge exists in ensuring that humans are equipped with the required critical thinking and AI literacy skills to interact with machines effectively by understanding their ...
- short-paperMarch 2024
Places to intervene in complex learning systems
LAK '24: Proceedings of the 14th Learning Analytics and Knowledge ConferenceMarch 2024, Pages 929–935https://doi.org/10.1145/3636555.3636938Responding to recent questioning of Learning Analytics (LA) as a field that is achieving its aim of understanding and optimising learning and the environments in which it occurs, this paper argues that there is a need to genuinely embrace the complexity ...
- research-articleMarch 2024
Data Storytelling Editor: A Teacher-Centred Tool for Customising Learning Analytics Dashboard Narratives
- Gloria Milena Fernandez-Nieto,
- Roberto Martinez-Maldonado,
- Vanessa Echeverria,
- Kirsty Kitto,
- Dragan Gašević,
- Simon Buckingham Shum
LAK '24: Proceedings of the 14th Learning Analytics and Knowledge ConferenceMarch 2024, Pages 678–689https://doi.org/10.1145/3636555.3636930Dashboards are increasingly used in education to provide teachers and students with insights into learning. Yet, existing dashboards are often criticised for their failure to provide the contextual information or explanations necessary to help students ...
- research-articleMarch 2023
Towards more replicable content analysis for learning analytics
LAK2023: LAK23: 13th International Learning Analytics and Knowledge ConferenceMarch 2023, Pages 303–314https://doi.org/10.1145/3576050.3576096Content analysis (CA) is a method frequently used in the learning sciences and so increasingly applied in learning analytics (LA). Despite this ubiquity, CA is a subtle method, with many complexities and decision points affecting the outcomes it ...
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- research-articleOctober 2022
Framing Professional Learning Analytics as Reframing Oneself
IEEE Transactions on Learning Technologies (IEEETLT), Volume 15, Issue 5Oct. 2022, Pages 634–649https://doi.org/10.1109/TLT.2022.3190055Central to imagining the future of technology-enhanced professional learning is the question of how data are gathered, analyzed, and fed back to stakeholders. The field of learning analytics (LA) has emerged over the last decade at the intersection of ...
- research-articleMarch 2022
Thinking with causal models: A visual formalism for collaboratively crafting assumptions
LAK22: LAK22: 12th International Learning Analytics and Knowledge ConferenceMarch 2022, Pages 250–259https://doi.org/10.1145/3506860.3506899Learning Analytics (LA) is a bricolage field that requires a concerted effort to ensure that all stakeholders it affects are able to contribute to its development in a meaningful manner. We need mechanisms that support collaborative sense-making. This ...
- research-articleMarch 2022
Beyond the Learning Analytics Dashboard: Alternative Ways to Communicate Student Data Insights Combining Visualisation, Narrative and Storytelling
LAK22: LAK22: 12th International Learning Analytics and Knowledge ConferenceMarch 2022, Pages 219–229https://doi.org/10.1145/3506860.3506895Learning Analytics (LA) dashboards have become a popular medium for communicating to teachers analytical insights obtained from student data. However, recent research indicates that LA dashboards can be complex to interpret, are often not grounded in ...
- articleJanuary 2022
Quantum Mathematics in Artificial Intelligence
Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research (JAIR), Volume 72Pages 1307–1341https://doi.org/10.1613/jair.1.12702In the decade since 2010, successes in artificial intelligence have been at the forefront of computer science and technology, and vector space models have solidified a position at the forefront of artificial intelligence. At the same time, quantum ...
- research-articleJuly 2021
Combining factor analysis with writing analytics for the formative assessment of written reflection
Computers in Human Behavior (COHB), Volume 120, Issue CJul 2021https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chb.2021.106733AbstractThe formative assessment of written reflection provides opportunities for students to improve their practice in an iterative manner using reflective writing. However, manual formative assessment of written reflection is time consuming ...
Highlights- Presentation of a five-factor assessment model (CWRef) for written reflection.
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- research-articleApril 2021
What Can Analytics for Teamwork Proxemics Reveal About Positioning Dynamics In Clinical Simulations?
- Gloria Fernandez-Nieto,
- Roberto Martinez-Maldonado,
- Vanessa Echeverria,
- Kirsty Kitto,
- Pengcheng An,
- Simon Buckingham Shum
Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction (PACMHCI), Volume 5, Issue CSCW1Article No.: 185, Pages 1–24https://doi.org/10.1145/3449284Effective teamwork is critical to improve patient outcomes in healthcare. However, achieving this capabilityrequires that pre-service nurses develop the spatial abilities they will require in their clinical placements, suchas: learning when to remain ...
- research-articleApril 2021
Modelling Spatial Behaviours in Clinical Team Simulations using Epistemic Network Analysis: Methodology and Teacher Evaluation
LAK21: LAK21: 11th International Learning Analytics and Knowledge ConferenceApril 2021, Pages 386–396https://doi.org/10.1145/3448139.3448176In nursing education through team simulations, students must learn to position themselves correctly in coordination with colleagues. However, with multiple student teams in action, it is difficult for teachers to give detailed, timely feedback on these ...
- research-articleMarch 2020
Towards skills-based curriculum analytics: can we automate the recognition of prior learning?
LAK '20: Proceedings of the Tenth International Conference on Learning Analytics & KnowledgeMarch 2020, Pages 171–180https://doi.org/10.1145/3375462.3375526In an era that will increasingly depend upon lifelong learning, the LA community will need to facilitate the movement and sharing of data and information across institutional and geographic boundaries. This will help us to recognise prior learning (RPL) ...
- research-articleMarch 2018
Embracing imperfection in learning analytics
LAK '18: Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Learning Analytics and KnowledgeMarch 2018, Pages 451–460https://doi.org/10.1145/3170358.3170413Learning Analytics (LA) sits at the confluence of many contributing disciplines, which brings the risk of hidden assumptions inherited from those fields. Here, we consider a hidden assumption derived from computer science, namely, that improving ...
- posterMarch 2017
Beyond failure: the 2nd LAK Failathon poster
LAK '17: Proceedings of the Seventh International Learning Analytics & Knowledge ConferenceMarch 2017, Pages 540–541https://doi.org/10.1145/3027385.3029447This poster will be a chance for a wider LAK audience to engage with the 2nd LAK Failathon workshop. Both of these will build on the successful Failathon event in 2016 and extend beyond discussing individual experiences of failure to exploring how the ...
- abstractMarch 2017
LAK17 hackathon: getting the right information to the right people so they can take the right action
LAK '17: Proceedings of the Seventh International Learning Analytics & Knowledge ConferenceMarch 2017, Pages 514–515https://doi.org/10.1145/3027385.3029435The hackathon is intended to be a practical hands-on workshop involving participants from academia and commercial organizations with both technical and practitioner expertise. It will consider the outstanding challenge of visualizations which are ...
- abstractMarch 2017
Beyond failure: the 2nd LAK Failathon
LAK '17: Proceedings of the Seventh International Learning Analytics & Knowledge ConferenceMarch 2017, Pages 504–505https://doi.org/10.1145/3027385.3029429The 2nd LAK Failathon will build on the successful event in 2016 and extend the workshop beyond discussing individual experiences of failure to exploring how the field can improve, particularly regarding the creation and use of evidence.
Failure in ...
- short-paperMarch 2017
Classifying help seeking behaviour in online communities
LAK '17: Proceedings of the Seventh International Learning Analytics & Knowledge ConferenceMarch 2017, Pages 419–423https://doi.org/10.1145/3027385.3027442While help seeking has been extensively studied using self report survey data and models, there is a lack of content analysis techniques that can be directly applied to classify help seeking behaviour. In this preliminary work we propose a coding scheme ...
- research-articleApril 2016
Towards automated content analysis of discussion transcripts: a cognitive presence case
- Vitomir Kovanović,
- Srećko Joksimović,
- Zak Waters,
- Dragan Gašević,
- Kirsty Kitto,
- Marek Hatala,
- George Siemens
LAK '16: Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference on Learning Analytics & KnowledgeApril 2016, Pages 15–24https://doi.org/10.1145/2883851.2883950In this paper, we present the results of an exploratory study that examined the problem of automating content analysis of student online discussion transcripts. We looked at the problem of coding discussion transcripts for the levels of cognitive ...
- short-paperApril 2016
Recipe for success: lessons learnt from using xAPI within the connected learning analytics toolkit
LAK '16: Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference on Learning Analytics & KnowledgeApril 2016, Pages 378–382https://doi.org/10.1145/2883851.2883882An ongoing challenge for Learning Analytics research has been the scalable derivation of user interaction data from multiple technologies. The complexities associated with this challenge are increasing as educators embrace an ever growing number of ...