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Dashboard

Category: Descriptive Analytics

Dashboards present a 'view' of the data that is optimized for comprehension and utility. They are widely used in learning technology. A person's learning activities, for example, can be graphed and displayed in comparison with other learners. This analysis can contain fine-grained detail, for example, attention metadata. (Duval, 2011) Students have asked for a variety of real-time dashboard analytics, including calendar and pacing information, and review of time spent online (Ifenthaler and Widanapathirana, 2014).

For example, at the University of Iowa, a student-facing analytics dashboard, Elements of Success (University of Iowa, 2020), has "the capacity to access summary data and curated visualizations allows students to better measure their progress and motivates them to take action when critical outcomes are not achieved" (O'Brien, 2020). The developers report, "learners benefited from regularly accessing the feedback" (van Horne, et.al., 2020)

In a well-designed dashboard "each activity section of the dashboard would be selected to further query and generate reporting about a certain activity," as demonstrated in a mock-up by Dringus (2012). Today, a standardized format, the Experience API, is used to collect and store activity data in a Learning Record Store (LRS) (Corbí and Solans, 2014; Kevan and Ryan, 2016). These support dashboards such as LAViEW (Learning Analytics Visualizations & Evidence Widgets) that helps learners analyze learning logs and provide evidence of learning. (Majumdar, et.al., 2019) Similar functionality is also provided by IMS Global's Caliper learning analytics (Oakleaf, et.al., 2017)

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5 applications of learning analytics

"It is possible to predict some course variables: how many students will pass and how many will fail, which will be the churn rate, which will be the group average, etc." Also: "Data visualization is the main application of learning analytics. It aims to help instructors to visualize and analyze the ongoing activities of the students. Once the data is stored, it is possible to create dashboards where all the data can be easily visualized." Offers an example of a dashboard.

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