Go-Lab Releases of the Learning Analytics, Scaffolding Services, and Add-on Services -Final

Sven Manske (1) , Yiwei Cao (2)

1 Universität Duisburg-Essen [Essen]
2 IMC - information multimedia communication IMC AG

This deliverable describes the final releases of learning analytics, scaffolding, and add-on services of Go-Lab, following the final specification reported in D4.6 (M33). It also considers users’ feedback and reviewers’ evaluation to the initial release in D4.4 (M24). This deliverable consists of two major parts: (i) the learning analytics and scaf- folding services and (ii) the add-on services which are specified in two compo- nents, i.e. the booking system and the tutoring platform. The learning analytics and scaffolding services consist of a rich backend and several options to develop new learning analytics apps according to the spec- ified infrastructure and architecture. To support the two main stakeholders of learning analytics in Go-Lab, namely teachers and learners, a teacher dash- board and several apps, e.g., to support learners’ reflection, will be presented in this deliverable. Participatory design activities, particularly framed by the Go- Lab Summer School 2015, have been used to evaluate initial versions of the learning analytics apps to gather useful feedback aligned to the stakeholders. The booking system (http://www.golabz.eu/) offers Go-Lab remote labs an appropriate booking service using a calendar managed by lab owners. It con- sists of the front-end user interfaces for both lab owners and teachers, as well as the backend services to validate the booking information through the Go-Lab Smart Gateway. The tutoring platform (http://tutoring.golabz.eu/) helps build up a virtual community where teachers could share their expertise in in- quiry learning with online labs and help each other grow their teaching skills. Both of them provide the add-on services for the Go-Lab Portal. The releases of LA, scaffolding services, and add-on services facilitate a tech- nical framework with additional indispensable services for the Go-Lab Portal (cf. D5.6). They are the collaboration research results between WP4 and WP5, taking into account the feedback from WP3.

Keywords: Learning Analytics; Scaffolding; Add-on services

Domains: Education

Sven Manske, Yiwei Cao. Go-Lab Releases of the Learning Analytics, Scaffolding Services, and Add-on Services -Final. [Research Report] Go-Lab Project. 2015. ⟨hal-01274933⟩