Share Paper: Illuminating Student Online Work and Research: Learning Analytics to Support the Development of Pre-Service Teacher Digital Pedagogy

  1. Kathleen Post, East Stroudsburg University, United States

Abstract: With increased access to technology in today’s classrooms, there is a growing need to understand how teachers use technology to support teaching and how students learn in 1:1 computing environments. Additionally, as technological use proliferate today’s classrooms, new data is generated, called learning analytics, which has the potential to illuminate a part of student work that has been hidden from the teachers view, that is, student online learning behaviors. Learning analytics provides a worthwhile data source to support teacher inquiry within the teachers’ own classroom in order to gauge student understanding and to modify the instructional design, and provides information ...