Learning Analytics Initiative and working
in an International community (Apereo
Foundation)
A.M.Berg, Innovation WG, Community Officer LAI
Agenda
 Overview Learning Analytics
 Overview LAI
 Current Status
 In progress
 Questions
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Academic vs Learning Analytics...
Academic
Analytics
Learning Analytics
A process for providing
higher education institutions
with the data necessary to
support operational and
financial decision making*
Learning analytics is the measurement, collection, analysis and
reporting of data about learners and their contexts, for purposes of
understanding and optimising learning and the environments in
which it occurs
Focused on the business
of the institution
Focused on the student and
their learning behaviors
Management/executives
are the
primary audience
Learners and instructors are the
primary audience
* - Analytics in Higher Education: Establishing a Common Language
What’s All the Hype About?
Learning Analytics holds the potential to
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“break the higher education iron triangle”
o
Academic Early Alert Systems
o
Adaptive Learning Systems
o
Dashboard/Data Visualization
Cost
Cost
There are challenges…Quality
Quality
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Access
Access
o
Privacy/Ethical use of data
o
Learning Analytics (LA) tool and software silos
o
Limited coordination across LA landscape
What is Apereo LAI?
https://confluence.sakaiproject.org/display/LAI/
Open. Learning Analytics. Community.
Accelerate the operationalization of Learning
Analytics software and frameworks, support the
validation of analytics pilots across institutions,
and work together to avoid duplication of
efforts.
Apereo – SoLAR Collaboration
SoLAR is an academic research community
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working to grow and expand the field of LA
o
Marist College is a founding member of SoLAR
o
Looking at operationalizing SoLAR research efforts
Current collaboration activities with SoLAR
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Open Learning Analytics (OLA) Summit
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SNAPP – Sakai integration project
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Grant funding (NSF, Gates)
What ELSE is Apereo LAI?
A safety net by providing:
● Open collaboration and minimize duplication
of effort.
● Build open, scalable, sustainable ecosystem
for Learning Analytics.
● Nucleation point where research meets
sustainability (See OLA from SoLAR).
● Develop evidence hubs to easily deploy and
cross validate analytic solutions across
institutions/platforms.
What specifically is Apereo LAI now
● Starts by building the minimum stack
o i.e. Learning Analytics Diamond
● Attracts research muscle (of the SoLAR
community) into real world, high scale, cross
validated environments.
● Seeks to enrich the Apereo project portfolio
● Knowledge Dissemination
● Community outreach
● Open
Five main aspects
Collection, Storage, Analysis, Action, Communication
Where are things right
now?
what works today
Open Source Learning Analytics today
ICT Services interactions with the
effort
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My time to help build a community
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Intersections with other communities
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SOLAR
 SURF (Co-chair SIG LA)
UvA LRS
LRS support for uPortal, Sakai CLE and
Apereo LAI
UvA
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UvA Inform
Sakai xAPI integration
● Streams Sakai event activity to an LRS using
experience statements
● Easy to extend and add additional events
● Available in Sakai 10
OAE xAPI integration
● Ability to push activity stream data to an
LRS in real-time
● Feature and target LRS is configurable on
tenant-per-tenant basis in multi tenant OAE
platform.
OAAI Early Alert System
PLUG for the Journal for Learning
Analytics
• http://learning-analytics.info/
• http://epress.lib.uts.edu.au/journals/index.
php/JLA/article/view/3249/4011
PLUG for cross validation
• OAAI needs
you!https://confluence.sakaiproject.org/pa
ges/viewpage.action?pageId=75671025
SNAPP - Bird’s eye view of Forum
SNAPP Demonstration
Student Success Plan (SSP)
•Case Management Software
•Academic Advising Tools (MAP)
•Early Alert / Faculty Access (EAL)
•Student Interface (Tasks, MAP, Self Help)
•Student Information System (SIS) Integration
•Reporting Tools / Data Collection
What projects are in
progress?
coming soon
uPortal xAPI integration
● Will stream portal and portlet events to an
LRS based on user activity
● https://issues.jasig.org/browse/UP-3718
● Based on the Sakai xAPI work
● Currently in progress
o
Expected to be
completed this
summer
UvA LRS
● Building a public thin LRS
o
o
o
Will only support the spec (minimal UI)
Local (on site) data storage
Security and performance are primary
 Low attack profile
 Less code helps optimize performance
● Release “soon” (when it is ready)
● UvA focus on core requirements (no frills)
o
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xAPI support for Sakai, OAE, now uPortal
Strategic support from Unicon
OAAI automation + Sakai connector
● Package the knowledge flows and PMML
early alert models into an API.
● Accept required OAAI data specs in JSON,
CSV, XML standards
● Perform data mining and scoring operations
using a library of PMML models.
● Deliver early alert predictions and insights in
JSON/ CSV/ XML standards
● LTI integration of OAAI with Sakai CLE to
render and store early alert insights
Meeting Place for a
community of shared interest
• What are our mutual requirements
• Who has done what
• Can we share our mistakes and successes
• Accelerates learning in a knowledge organization
• Meetings twice monthly
• Conferences
• Google group
• Shared WIKI space
• Coming soon: Hackathons and shared grant proposals
LASI June 30th , 1st July
UTRECHT
https://confluence.sakaiproject.org/display/LAI/Learning+Analytics+Initiative
Join the mailing list: analytics@apereo.org
(subscribe by sending a message
to analytics+subscribe@apereo.org)
Join the calls (currently working on scheduling a
repeating time - will announce on the mailing
list)
Contribute on github: https://github.com/ApereoLearning-Analytics-Initiative
Help get the word out!
http://lak15.solaresearch.org/
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