[DG: Teaching & Learning] Sakai-11 - proposal ideas

[Berg, Alan]

Thanks Neal for the question. The initiative depends the getting the community involved.

To start with there is a distribution list / Google group. Have an opinion, get involved in the discussions. A mailing list to support discussion of analytics across Apereo projects has been established - analytics at apereo.org<mailto:analytics at apereo.org>. You can subscribe by sending a message to analytics+subscribe at apereo.org<mailto:analytics%2Bsubscribe at apereo.org>

If you have time and energy to support the initiative feel free to contact me.

Alan Berg:  Community Officer for the Apereo Learning Analytics Initiative
analytics-coordinator at apereo.org<mailto:analytics-coordinator at apereo.org>

There will be presentations at the Apereo conference and also a BOF. Patrich Lynch from Hull will lead the BOF. This makes for a good coordination point. Please feel free to participate.

All kinds of interesting possibilities exist for collaboration, hopefully avoiding duplication, exposing great ideas and potentially breaking down the feeling of isolation that this emerging field can produce.

Regards,
           Alan


Alan Berg

Innovation working group
On the use of ICT in Education & Research
University of Amsterdam
Postbus 1025 / 1000 BA Amsterdam
Weesperzijde 190 / 1097 DZ Amsterdam
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From: Neal Caidin [neal.caidin at apereo.org]
Sent: 26 February 2014 21:43
To: Berg, Alan
Cc: Gregory Guthrie; pedagogy at collab.sakaiproject.org
Subject: Re: [DG: Teaching & Learning] Sakai-11 - proposal ideas

Hi Alan,

What do you recommend as the best way for community members to keep up to date with the Apereo Analytics Initiative?

I know you guys are working on a Confluence page. Can you please announce when that is ready for public eyes?

For those going to the Open Apereo Conference, I believe you will be having one or more sessions there as well, correct?

Thanks,
Neal



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Berg, Alan<mailto:A.M.Berg at uva.nl>
February 26, 2014 at 3:05 PM
Yes, I agree that is why the Apereo Analytics initiative is an interesting influence. Join in :)

Regards,
Alan


Alan Berg

Innovation working group
On the use of ICT in Education & Research
University of Amsterdam
Postbus 1025 / 1000 BA Amsterdam
Weesperzijde 190 / 1097 DZ Amsterdam

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Subject: [DG: Teaching & Learning] Sakai-11 - proposal ideas

I wasn't sure if this was the best place to post ideas and suggestions for future Sakai versions - but here goes...

I would like to see more analysis tools in next versions of Sakai.

1) One might include some analysis of faculty and course interactions in the forums - and although defining the metrics would be the most important part of this, perhaps things like (thread depth, average response time, size of responses (to eliminate "me too! and chatter responses), faculty response time, number of 'like's to posts (per student, per faculty), ...).

This would allow one to oversee a group of courses to see how interactive faculty are in their support of a course, and also how engaged in participation students are in a course(s).

2) A second area would be institutional reporting and accountability. This would include items perhaps like: (student forum submissions (pre student, per course), responses, assignments submitted (%age), date of last interaction, ...). This is important both for QC of course quality per these measures, but also a legal requirement for Federal Financial aid support.

3) One implementation feature to support this would be more automated ways to extract reporting data from Sakai. The sitestats reports are useful, but very limited in their range and format.
We have setup one approach to this, where any internal report in sakai can be automatically extracted (csv, xml, json) so that external presentation and analysis tools can be used to better present, integrate, and aggregate it. From that we can then correlate data from various reports and give evaluation and performance tracking tables for each (and all...) courses.

(I think that the Canvas LMS has some nice examples of such data access and reporting tools.)

4) A system of hierarchical reporting tools for : ( courses, faculty, departments, school, ...) so that administrators could easily QC and track the overall quality of courses using Sakai, perhaps most importantly for DE courses.

If other Schools have already discovered or setup good ways to do this, we would love to hear of it.
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February 26, 2014 at 3:00 PM
I wasn't sure if this was the best place to post ideas and suggestions for future Sakai versions - but here goes...

I would like to see more analysis tools in next versions of Sakai.

1) One might include some analysis of faculty and course interactions in the forums - and although defining the metrics would be the most important part of this, perhaps things like (thread depth, average response time, size of responses (to eliminate "me too! and chatter responses), faculty response time, number of 'like's to posts (per student, per faculty), ...).

This would allow one to oversee a group of courses to see how interactive faculty are in their support of a course, and also how engaged in participation students are in a course(s).

2) A second area would be institutional reporting and accountability. This would include items perhaps like: (student forum submissions (pre student, per course), responses, assignments submitted (%age), date of last interaction, ...). This is important both for QC of course quality per these measures, but also a legal requirement for Federal Financial aid support.

3) One implementation feature to support this would be more automated ways to extract reporting data from Sakai. The sitestats reports are useful, but very limited in their range and format.
We have setup one approach to this, where any internal report in sakai can be automatically extracted (csv, xml, json) so that external presentation and analysis tools can be used to better present, integrate, and aggregate it. From that we can then correlate data from various reports and give evaluation and performance tracking tables for each (and all...) courses.

(I think that the Canvas LMS has some nice examples of such data access and reporting tools.)

4) A system of hierarchical reporting tools for : ( courses, faculty, departments, school, ...) so that administrators could easily QC and track the overall quality of courses using Sakai, perhaps most importantly for DE courses.

If other Schools have already discovered or setup good ways to do this, we would love to hear of it.
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