[Building Sakai] Sakai database graphic representation

[Mathieu Plourde]

Hi Nate,

Thanks for the pointers. I had already gotten in touch with Josh, but did
not know about John's project. CCing Harry Wang, our professor interested in
Sakai analytics.

Mathieu
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On Wed, Apr 20, 2011 at 2:41 AM, Nate Angell <nangell at rsmart.com> wrote:

> Mat:
>
> While direct calls to the db may be a worthy approach, I believe a lot
> of the most interesting data for learning analytics is already
> captured in the Sakai events table and reported by the existing Site
> Statistics tool, which can now be deployed in the admin workspace and
> report across all sites in an instance.
>
> I wanted to let you know that Marist was recently awarded a Wave 1
> Next Generation Learning Challenges grant to explore learning
> analytics in Sakai specifically, in partnership with other
> institutions and with a goal of exposing learning analytics from Sakai
> to external analysis/early warning tools (likely via a web service).
> Perhaps your colleague may want to connect with and/or build on that
> work, which will be kicking off shortly, and begin in earnest in Fall
> 2011, when live classes at several institutions will pilot real-time
> academic interventions based on learning analytics from Sakai. I'm
> copying Marist's Josh Baron on this email as the primary contact of
> this NGLC Open Academic Analytics Initiative (OAAI) grant.
>
> In related news, I believe Cambridge is working with some other
> institutions to extract/anonymize Sakai data, with a focus more on
> analyzing good technology management practices based on real data,
> with funding from JISC as I understand it. Copying John Norman as a
> first contact on that project.
>
> --
> Nate Angell
> Sakai Product Manager
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>
>
> On Mon, Apr 18, 2011 at 8:13 AM, Mathieu Plourde <mathieu at udel.edu> wrote:
> > Hi!
> >
> > Can anyone point me to a visual output of the Sakai CLE database
> (relational
> > representation)? One of our MIS professors wants to analyze it to
> determine
> > what can be extracted regarding learning analytics for a research paper.
> >
> > I've checked Confluence, but I'm not as familiar with the developers'
> corner
> > of it.
> >
> > Mathieu
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