This week’s adventure is about Learning Analytics. In the podcast, I talk about Learning Analytics, my experience of using Learning Analytics in two different roles as a teacher and a student, and my design of Learning Analytics for learning Chinese as a language teacher.
Through this week’s reading, I learned what Learning Analytics is. Before I do the research, I thought that Learning Analytics referred to an educator’s or teacher’s summary report of student learning outcomes. However, LAT (Learning Analytics tool) takes effect on the first day students enter the classroom. LATs are used almost everywhere in learning life. As UBC to an external site. mentions, LAT has the following primary uses:
- Track your student’s progress and give more, better, and targeted feedback
- Monitor student activity in your course’s online discussion forums
- Know your students before the first class
- Visualize student enrollment pathways
- Monitor student and class activity in the course site, in real time
- Measure the impact of student engagement with course material on their course grades or other indicators of learning
- Make better use of student performance data to inform curriculum redesign
- Help students monitor their own level of preparation for class
- The Quercus that we are using is a type of LAT.
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