Towards portable learning analytics dashboards

Andrii Voznuik (1) , Sten Govaerts (1) , Denis Gillet (1)

1 EPFL - Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne

This paper proposes a novel approach to build and deploy learning analytics dashboards in multiple learning environments. Existing learning dashboards are barely portable: once deployed on a learning platform, it requires considerable effort to deploy the dashboard elsewhere.We suggest constructing dashboards from lightweight web applications, namely widgets. Our approach allows to port dashboards with no additional cost between learning environments that implement open specifications (OpenSocial and ActivityStreams) for data access and use widget APIs. We propose to facilitate reuse by sharing the dashboards and widgets via a centralized analytics repository.

Keywords: learning analytics; dashboards; portability; open standards; widget; ActivityStreams; OpenSocial

Domains: Education

Andrii Voznuik, Sten Govaerts, Denis Gillet. Towards portable learning analytics dashboards. Proceedings of the International Conference on Advanced Learning Technologies, Jul 2013, Beijing, China. ⟨hal-00990302⟩