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Aggregating social and usage datasets for learning analytics: data-oriented challenges

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Katja Niemann,

Martin Wolpers,

Giannis Stoitsis,

Georgios Chinis, and

Nikos ManouselisAuthors Info & Claims

LAK '13: Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Learning Analytics and Knowledge

April 2013

Pages 245 - 249

https://doi.org/10.1145/2460296.2460345

Published: 08 April 2013 Publication History

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Recent work has studied real-life social and usage datasets from educational applications, highlighting the opportunity to combine or merge them. It is expected that being able to put together different datasets from various applications will make it possible to support learning analytics of a much larger scale and across different contexts. We examine how this can be achieved from a practical perspective by carrying out a study that focuses on three real datasets. More specifically, we combine social data that has been collected from the users of three learning portals and reflect on how they should be handled. We start by studying the data types and formats that these portals use to represent and store social and usage data. Then we develop crosswalks between the different schemas, so that merged versions of the source datasets may be created. The results of this bottom-up, hands-on investigation reveal several interesting issues that need to be overcome before aggregated sets of social and usage data can be actually used to support learning analytics research or services.

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Aggregating social and usage datasets for learning analytics: data-oriented challenges
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LAK '13: Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Learning Analytics and Knowledge

April 2013

300 pages

ISBN:9781450317856

DOI:10.1145/2460296

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Dan Suthers
University of Hawaii, USA
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Katrien Verbert
Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands
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Erik Duval
University of Leuven, Belgium
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Xavier Ochoa
Escuela Superior Politécnica del Litoral, Ecuador

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