[DG: Teaching & Learning] Question - Anyone Tracking Faculty Activity in Courses?

Wed Apr 1 05:48:56 PDT 2015

Hi, Alan,
It was great chatting with you at LAK15!  I had not thought of these
dashboard hackathons as possibly also encompassing or resulting in
dashboards on overall tool usage by faculty.   I guess if the flows of data
include all the data we currently get in a table query then it should be
able to give us this type of report.

As a non-developer with decent experience with various query tools on the
administrative side of the university,  I use the tools most easily
available on a data format that is easily accessible.  It would be great if
Open LRS and Open Analytics could make operational reporting as easy as
they seem to be making predictive analytics.  The infrastructure for it is
more complex, however;  certainly much more involved than a single table
with all the pertinent data pulled from the LMS.

Again, look forward to seeing great discussions/demonstrations at Apereo.

Pat

On Wed, Apr 1, 2015 at 3:23 AM, Berg, Alan <A.M.Berg at uva.nl> wrote:

>  H Gregory,
>
>  The OpenDashboard is working with the OpenLRS at the Uniformed
> University.
>
>  We (well Unicon) provided a full end to end example with an LRS, fake
> data, Sakai for a 2 day hackathon at the LAK15 conference.
> http://lak15.solaresearch.org/zh/hackathon ,
> https://www.surfspace.nl/artikel/1773-day-1--lak15-hackathon--building-an-educational-dashboard/ The
> hackathon is the second in a series. There are currently incoming inquiries
> for 6 more events. Patrick Lynch from Hull University is looking at the
> possibility for the Open Apereo Conference. We are going to keep track
> here: https://confluence.sakaiproject.org/display/LAI/LAI+Hackathons
>
>  Both hackathons encompassed twenty attendee's which was enough for 4
> teams. We are looking towards innovating with a scrum like event with a
> local dev team taking the baton after a hackathon. It would be great to
> sprint to crystalize local needs into a real product.
>
>  Stefan Mol from the University of Amsterdam and Catherine Zhoa from
> North West University Australia are keeping track of the emerging
> requirements across hackathons.  The requirements are just as important as
> the software artefacts and this are getting documented.
>
>  We are moving quite fast at the moment. You are most welcome to join in
> if you want to build openly within the community.
>
>
> 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
>       ------------------------------
> *From:* Gregory Guthrie [guthrie at mum.edu]
> *Sent:* 01 April 2015 03:59
> *To:* Berg, Alan; Pat Miller; David Eveland
> *Cc:* pedagogy at collab.sakaiproject.org
> *Subject:* RE: [DG: Teaching & Learning] Question - Anyone Tracking
> Faculty Activity in Courses?
>
>   Alan, Thanks – is there an example somewhere of an end-end usage of
> this for doing site usage and progress monitoring and analysis?
>
>
>
> It looks very interesting, but is one part of a full system as I read it.
>
>
>
> Similarly, the OpenDashboard from the Apero github site looks interesting,
> but is there any description or demo of its usage and results?
>
>
>
> Best,
>
> Gregory
>
> -------------------------------------------
>
>   *From:* Berg, Alan [mailto:A.M.Berg at uva.nl]
> *Sent:* Tuesday, March 31, 2015 4:51 PM
> *To:* Gregory Guthrie; Pat Miller; David Eveland
> *Cc:* pedagogy at collab.sakaiproject.org
> *Subject:* RE: [DG: Teaching & Learning] Question - Anyone Tracking
> Faculty Activity in Courses?
>
>
>
> For the long run, Sakai is xAPI enabled so you can get the activity
> streams out to a secure repository without querying the database. There is
> also some preliminary work on Caliper in the openLRS
>
>
>
>
> https://confluence.sakaiproject.org/display/LAI/Learning+Analytics+Initiative
>
> https://github.com/Apereo-Learning-Analytics-Initiative/SakaiXAPI-Provider
>
>
> 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
>       ------------------------------
>
> *From:* pedagogy-bounces at collab.sakaiproject.org [
> pedagogy-bounces at collab.sakaiproject.org] on behalf of Gregory Guthrie [
> guthrie at mum.edu]
> *Sent:* 31 March 2015 23:40
> *To:* Pat Miller; David Eveland
> *Cc:* pedagogy at collab.sakaiproject.org
> *Subject:* Re: [DG: Teaching & Learning] Question - Anyone Tracking
> Faculty Activity in Courses?
>
> Pat,
>
> This sounds interesting – I’d love to get a look at whatever you use, and
> the reports produced.
>
>
>
> We are interested in developing this area, although we have limited
> resources, we might be able to help with implementations.
>
>
>
> If you could PM me?
>
>
>
> ----------------------------------------------------------
>
> *From:* pedagogy-bounces at collab.sakaiproject.org [
> mailto:pedagogy-bounces at collab.sakaiproject.org
> <pedagogy-bounces at collab.sakaiproject.org>] *On Behalf Of *Pat Miller
> *Sent:* Tuesday, March 31, 2015 3:53 PM
> *To:* David Eveland
> *Cc:* pedagogy at collab.sakaiproject.org
> *Subject:* Re: [DG: Teaching & Learning] Question - Anyone Tracking
> Faculty Activity in Courses?
>
>
>
> Hi, David,
>
> I just read Gregory's response and he seems to have a nice automated
> reporting system!
>
>
>
> We have been querying a table into which our Sakai hosting partner
> (Longsight) feeds activity from all sites-- kind of a data mart which was
> built using SQL scripts originally used to extract the data from Sakai into
> files.  Now having this table makes it much easier to get the data we need
> for reports.  We don't have any contractual requirements like you do, but
> find it helpful to give info to our LMS faculty guidance council so they
> are aware of who of their colleagues are most active in Sakai.  It helps
> the LMS team to also see which tools are not being used so we can target
> training opportunities.  We also use it to find faculty exemplars to
> present at monthly faculty lunch'n' learns on how they use various Sakai or
> 3rd party tools.
>
>
>
> We use Tableau to query this table to get both student activity and
> faculty activity.   We can see activity on all Sakai tools and for all
> course sites.  For LTI tools we can see the launch but, of course, since
> the actual activity is held by the tool site, we can't see the detailed
> activity.
>
>
>
> We link the ID of the instructors with our Banner system to find out which
> departments they are from but this currently is not an automated process.
> So we take the Tableau data summaries and import into Oracle to then link
> with Banner and come up with reports by College, department, etc.
>
>
>
> I imagine the Sakai queries we are using are probably similar to the ones
> Gregory is using.  It would be good to find out how they compare!
>
>
>
> Any of you going to the Aperio Conference?  I am presenting about what we
> do to get our reports.  But I was thinking of the session as a good chance
> to share ideas.
>
>
>
> Pat
>
> University of Notre Dame
>
>
>
> On Tue, Mar 31, 2015 at 3:50 PM, David Eveland <DEveland at johnsonu.edu>
> wrote:
>
> All,
>
>  Sorry if this isn’t the right context for this.
>
>  We’re presently looking to gather some data on the level and kind of
> involvement our faculty have in their online courses, and are familiar with
> the Statistics tool in Sakai to gather just this type of information.
>
>  However, we’re also looking at being able to provide a more responsive
> engagement with faculty – if for example they’re not remaining engaged or
> active in their online courses (as our contract spells out).  One way to
> check for this is to use the Statistics tool in every course an instructor
> is teaching in in the current term, and then relay that information to that
> faculty member’s respective dean or school.
>
>  Another way would be to have a service that simply looks into the current
> term’s courses for just this sort of data and notifies those deans
> accordingly if (say) the instructor hasn’t engaged with a particular course
> for more than 4 days.
>
>  Any thoughts are helpful.
>
> <http://www.johnsonu.edu/>*—*
> * Dave E. **| *Johnson University
> *865.251.2320 <865.251.2320>*
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>
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