Overview of Learning Analytics & Educational Data Mining
Ryan Baker, IEDMSGeorge Siemens, SoLAR
Agenda
IntroSoLARIEDMSWhat do EDM/LA researchers do?State of the fieldGoing Forward
Agenda
IntroSoLARIEDMSWhat do EDM/LA researchers do?State of the fieldGoing Forward
-Build the field of Learning Analytics through cross-disciplinary interactions, identification of research and teaching needs, advancement of LA methods, and connecting isolated researchers and research communities.
-Develop the skills and knowledge of doctoral students and academics, equipping them to engage actively in LA research and teaching.
Why LASI?
LASI Locals
(consider running one next year)
-Hong Kong, Denmark, South Africa, Latin America, France, Spain (Granada & Madrid), Scotland, Australia, Netherlands
Thanks to Simon Buckingham Shum for organizing
Thanks:
Charles, Garron for hard work behind the scenes
Dragan, Mykola, for an outstanding program
Grace for admin/organization
Thanks:
Next year: MIT
Agenda
IntroSoLARIEDMSWhat do EDM/LA researchers do?State of the fieldGoing Forward
What is SoLAR?
Scientific organization promoting high quality research in data and analytics generated through the learning process
What does SoLAR do?
LAKJLALASIOLALAMP
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IntroSoLARIEDMSWhat do EDM/LA researchers do?State of the fieldGoing Forward
What is the EDM Society?
Supports collaboration and scientific research in mining big data from educational contexts
What does IEDMS do?
EDM conferenceJEDMEDM-ANNOUNCE/EDM-DISCUSSSupporting role in LASI, OLA, LAMP
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IntroSoLARIEDMSWhat do EDM/LA researchers do?State of the fieldGoing Forward
Types of EDM method(Baker & Siemens, in press; building off Baker & Yacef, 2009)
• Prediction• Structure Discovery• Relationship mining• Distillation of data for human
judgment• Discovery with models
Types of EDM method(Baker & Siemens, in press; building off Baker & Yacef, 2009)
• Prediction– Classification– Regression– Latent Knowledge Estimation
Types of EDM method(Baker & Siemens, in press; building off Baker & Yacef, 2009)
• Structure Discovery– Clustering– Factor Analysis– Domain Structure Discovery– Network Analysis
Types of EDM method(Baker & Siemens, in press; building off Baker & Yacef, 2009)
• Relationship mining– Association rule mining– Correlation mining– Sequential pattern mining– Causal data mining
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IntroSoLARIEDMSWhat do EDM/LA researchers do?State of the fieldGoing Forward
What is happening in LA?
Dawson et al 2014
Dawson et al 2014
Trends
Maturation of researchGrowing impact on practiceIncreased computer science representation
What is happening in EDM?
• A lot of classification and regression• Increased emphasis on latent
knowledge estimation and knowledge structure discovery
• Reduced emphasis on relationship mining
Baker & Inventado, in press
What is happening in EDM?
• Broadening range of constructs studied–Meta-cognition– Affect– Engagement–Motivation– Long-Term Participation
• Increased number of discovery with models analyses
Baker & Inventado, in press
What is happening in EDM?
• Basic research• Automated intervention
• And increasingly, we’re learning from LAK and getting into reporting
What is happening in EDM?
• Increased participation of industry; industry track
• Workshops
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IntroSoLARIEDMSWhat do EDM/LA researchers do?State of the fieldGoing Forward
What do we need to be doing better?
To advance as a field, LA researchers and practitioners need to address the following:
(a) development of new tools, techniques, and people; (b) data: openness, ethics, and scope; (c) target of analytics activity; and (d) connections to related fields and practitioners.
Challenges that we face
Public pushbackBroadening scope of dataCreating strategic links to related academic/research communities
EDM2015
• Madrid, Spain
EDM2015
• Madrid, Spain
The Poughkeepsie of Europe
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