[This topic can be selected as master’s essay]
Learning Analytics is an upcoming research area which is still in its early stages of research. Learner analytics deals with gathering, analyzing and visualizing various types of academic data, including learners’ interactions with a learning system, learner profile data, etc. This essay aims at investigating the current state of research on learner analytics as well as into the visualization tools that are currently available.
The first part of this essay will be a literature review on learner analytics and tools for visualization of respective data. This review will also include investigations into areas that are the basis for learner analytics, including learner modelling, adaptivity and personalization, visualization, etc. The second part of this essay deals with identifying the information that is currently analysed by learner analytics tools as well as the methods which are used for data gathering, analysis and visualization. The result of this part will be a classification of current research in learner analytics. The third part of this essay aims at identifying gaps and shortcomings in the current tools and providing suggestions for future research directions.
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