Share Paper: Visualizing Learning Analytics: Designing A Roadmap For Success

  1. Halimat Alabi, University of Victoria, Canada
  2. Jillianne Code, University of Victoria, Canada
  3. Valerie Irvine, University of Victoria, Canada
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Abstract: Learning analytics tools help online educators visually extract meaningful performance and behavioral patterns from learners’ trace data. While many learning analytics solutions have addressed how educators monitor and provide summative feedback to learners, most are pedagogically neutral, and do not feature or support formative feedback. We explore the research principles underlying the design and implementation of a learning analytics tool rooted in theories of self-regulation, formative feedback and design-based research that address challenges unique to online educators and learners. The tool, itself a source of formative feedback, is intended to improve educator efficacy and the provision of timely feedback, leading ...