[Using Sakai] Faculty/course metrics in Sakai?

[Zhen Qian]

Hi, Gregory:

Those are all very interesting ideas.

As for the Forums tool, there is "Statiscs & Grading" feature since 2.9,
where "Forum statistics are available for site owners to determine the
participation level of individual participants. You can also read all of a
particular participant's posts using this feature.". Though it might not
answer those specific questions raised in your email, have you tried this
feature and find it useful?

You might also find the Open Academic Analytics Initiative work from Marist
College relevant [1]. They have combined the roster data with Sakai's data
(event, grades, etc)

Thanks,

- Zhen

--------------------------------------
Zhen Qian
Application Developer Lead
ITS Teaching and Learning
University of Michigan
734.327.9066
---------------------------------------

[1]:
https://confluence.sakaiproject.org/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=75671025


On Sat, Nov 2, 2013 at 11:58 PM, Gregory Guthrie <guthrie at mum.edu> wrote:

> With the growth of MOOCs and LMS systems, there are several interest data
> collection, analysis, and data mining opportunities that are being
> explored. Although an LMS like Sakai does not give the same massive
> datasets as a MOOC, it does provide a lot of potentially interesting data,
> and I am interested in how other schools might be using and analyzing it.
>
>
>
> For example, the forums provide an interesting trace of faculty-student
> and student-student interactions. One could think of several possibly
> interesting metrics, such as eth average response time of a faculty to
> messages. The percentage of responses that were from faculty v.s. students.
> The average depth of threads, number of threads, etc.
>
>
>
> Has anyone done any similar data analysis of forum or course data? Again,
> for example, correlations of assignment submissions and forum
> participations, correlations of faculty forum or other interaction
> activities with amount of student response.
>
>
>
> Any ideas or existing projects are of interest!
>
>
>
> -------------------------------------------
>
>
>
> _______________________________________________
> sakai-user mailing list
> sakai-user at collab.sakaiproject.org
> http://collab.sakaiproject.org/mailman/listinfo/sakai-user
>
> TO UNSUBSCRIBE: send email to
> sakai-user-unsubscribe at collab.sakaiproject.org with a subject of
> "unsubscribe"
>
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: http://collab.sakaiproject.org/pipermail/sakai-user/attachments/20131104/c4012c3f/attachment.html