Introducing Apereo and the Apereo Learning Analytics Initiative
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This document discusses Apereo Foundation's Learning Analytics Initiative. It provides context on the use of analytics in higher education. It outlines Apereo's vision for an open learning analytics platform that would allow institutions to collect, store, analyze and act on learning data. The platform would integrate with systems like Sakai, Apereo OAE and others. It discusses current progress including an analytics processor and dashboard. It also outlines seven strategic issues and a future of moving platform elements to incubation and encouraging adoption and resource commitment. The overall goal is to facilitate collaboration and sharing of analytics among institutions.
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Introducing Apereo and the Apereo Learning Analytics Initiative
- 1. Apereo Foundation | Learning Analytics Ian Dolphin, Apereo Foundation | Ja-Sakai Conference | March 2015 | Tokyo
- 2. Agenda Why open source for higher education? What is Apereo? Apereo Learning Analytics Initiative
- 3. Photo by opensourceway - Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License http://www.flickr.com/photos/47691521@N07 Created with Haiku Deck Why open source software for higher education?
- 4. Photo by blprnt_van - Creative Commons Attribution License http://www.flickr.com/photos/55772089@N00 Created with Haiku Deck Utility: Software that meets a need
- 5. Photo by blprnt_van - Creative Commons Attribution License http://www.flickr.com/photos/55772089@N00 Created with Haiku Deck Utility: Software that meets a need Innovation
- 6. Photo by blprnt_van - Creative Commons Attribution License http://www.flickr.com/photos/55772089@N00 Created with Haiku Deck Utility Innovation 85% 15%
- 7. Utility Innovation Photo by blprnt_van - Creative Commons Attribution License http://www.flickr.com/photos/55772089@N00 Created with Haiku Deck Utility Innovation Customization
- 8. Utility Innovation Photo by blprnt_van - Creative Commons Attribution License http://www.flickr.com/photos/55772089@N00 Created with Haiku Deck Utility Innovation Customization Contribution
- 9. Utility Innovation Photo by blprnt_van - Creative Commons Attribution License http://www.flickr.com/photos/55772089@N00 Created with Haiku Deck Utility Innovation Customization Sustainability Contribution
- 10. Contribution is critical … and not just code …
- 11. Photo by USDAgov - Creative Commons Attribution License http://www.flickr.com/photos/41284017@N08 Created with Haiku Deck What is the Apereo Foundation?
- 12. Apereo is … • A not-for-profit registered in New Jersey • A membership organisation • A network of institutions & communities
- 13. Mission The core mission of the Apereo Foundation is to assist and facilitate educational organizations which “collaborate to foster, develop, and sustain open technologies and innovation to support learning, teaching, and research."
- 14. Foundation Provides … • A deliberately minimal set of services • Manage licensing and intellectual property • Accounting • Events • Programmes; • Fellows, Teaching with Sakai Innovation Award • Infrastructure (technical + community) • Routes to pooled expertise and guidance
- 15. Subsidiarity Principle “Apereo does not attempt to provide what projects or institutions can better provide themselves”
- 16. Photo by GustavoG - Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike License http://www.flickr.com/photos/80122196@N00 Created with Haiku Deck Communities … • Software Communities • Communities of Interest
- 17. • Karuta • EDExchange • CAS • Bedework • Open Academic Environment • Sakai • Student Success Plan • uPortal • uMobile • Opencast • UniTime • Xerte Incubating… Sponsored … Software Communities …
- 18. Photo by michael.heiss - Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike License http://www.flickr.com/photos/15748454@N00 Created with Haiku Deck Communities of Interest • Thematic - • “Teaching and Learning” • “ePortfolio” • “Learning Analytics Initiative” • Explore work/ideas around common theme • One of the nurseries for our incubation process
- 19. Photo by thefoxling - Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike License http://www.flickr.com/photos/37624835@N03 Created with Haiku Deck Incubation • Software: from innovation to sustainability • Structured process • Guided by community mentors • Results in exit by graduation … or not … not graduating is not a failure
- 20. Photo by jairoagua - Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike License http://www.flickr.com/photos/31065898@N08 Created with Haiku Deck Networks & Partnerships Apereo will not realise its mission alone … … or by simple linear growth Regional partnerships: ESUP-Portail (Fr) Thematic partnerships: InCommon, SoLAR
- 21. Apereo Foundation Learning Analytics Initiative
- 22. Photo by giulia.forsythe - Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike License http://www.flickr.com/photos/59217476@N00 Created with Haiku Deck
- 23. Context & Landscape • Higher education: post war transformation • Did practice keep pace with change? • Increased student numbers + diversity = impact on retention? • Technology-driven“answers” • CBT, Courseware, eLearning, LMS/VLE, MOOCs …
- 24. Business Analytics Business analytics (BA) refers to the skills, technologies, practices for continuous iterative exploration and investigation of past business performance to gain insight and drive business planning.[1] Business analytics focuses on developing new insights and understanding of business performance based on data and statistical methods. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Business_analytics
- 25. Learning Analytics? Academic Analytics Learning Analytics A process for providing higher education institutions with the data necessary to support operational and financial decision making* The use of analytic techniques to help target instructional, curricular, and support resources to support the achievement of specific learning goals* 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
- 26. Adaptive Learning & Cognitive Tutoring Data Visualization Academic Early Alert Systems Student Advising & Recommendations
- 27. Reporting Data • Summarize historical data Analyzing Trends • Identify historical trends and correlations Predictive Analytics • Predict future outcomes and behaviour Institutional Journey
- 28. OAAI Project - Marist College Student Aptitude Data (SATs, current GPA, etc.) Student Demographic Data (Age, gender, etc.) Sakai Event Log Data Sakai Gradebook Data Predictive Model Scoring Identifies students“at risk”to not complete course SISDataLMSData OAAI Early Alert System Overview Intervention Deployed “Awareness”or Online Academic Support Environment (OASE) Model Developed Using Historical Data Step #1: Developed model using historical data Academic Alert Report (AAR)
- 29. OAAI Impact • Statistically significant positive impact on final grades • Across student population (including low income) • Models proved portable - reference group of institutions • Staff feedback - “I became more vigilant about reaching out to individual students” “I received the highest volume of unsolicited positive feedback”
- 30. Sharing open models and algorithms is critical to institutional learning
- 31. Strategic Vision - Open Learning Analytics Platform Collection based data capture from any potential source using Experience API and/or IMS Caliper/Sensor API Storage for all learning-related data using Learning Record Store (LRS) standard. Analysis Analytics Processor (LAP) that can handle data mining, data processing (ETL), predictive model scoring and reporting. Communication Dashboard technology for displaying LAP output. Action fed into other systems to trigger alerts, etc. Learning Record Storage Summary and Results Communication Analysis Results Action Learning Data Analysis Learning Activities Collection
- 32. Strategic Vision - Open Learning Analytics Platform Collection based data capture from any potential source using Experience API and/or IMS Caliper/Sensor API Storage for all learning-related data using Learning Record Store (LRS) standard. Analysis Analytics Processor (LAP) that can handle data mining, data processing (ETL), predictive model scoring and reporting. Communication Dashboard technology for displaying LAP output. Action fed into other systems to trigger alerts, etc. Learning Record Storage Summary and Results Communication Analysis Results Action Learning Data Analysis Learning Activities Collection Administrative Systems Learning Delivery
- 33. Strategic Vision - Open Learning Analytics Platform Collection based data capture from any potential source using Experience API and/or IMS Caliper/Sensor API Storage for all learning-related data using Learning Record Store (LRS) standard. Analysis Analytics Processor (LAP) that can handle data mining, data processing (ETL), predictive model scoring and reporting. Communication Dashboard technology for displaying LAP output. Action fed into other systems to trigger alerts, etc. Learning Record Storage Summary and Results Communication Analysis Results Action Learning Data Analysis Learning Activities Collection Administrative Systems Learning Delivery LRS LAPDashboards etc SSP + Systemsn
- 34. Current state … • Data Collection: xAPI integrated with Sakai, Apereo OAE, Larissa, OpenLRS. IMS Calliper exploration when mature • Learning Record Store (LRS): Two reference implementations - OpenLRS (Unicon, USUHS) Larissa (UvA) • Learning Analytics Processor (LAP): Reference implementation of API (Unicon/Marist) • Open Dashboard: Reference implementation (Unicon/USUHS). IMS LTI compliant - embed in many systems • Student Success Plan: Case Management - Graduated incubation, growing number of adoptions
- 35. Seven Strategic Issues (not the only seven ….) 1. Data: from where? SIS? LMS/VLE? Library? eResources? Others? 2. Systems open enough to extract required data? 3. Institutional governance? 4. Committed institutional leadership? 5. Application centric vs Platform approach? 6. Ethics and Privacy: cultural and legal concerns in globalized environment
- 36. Willingness and ability to share? 7
- 37. Futures • Move elements of platform into incubation • Encourage use, experimentation, adoption • Encourage resource commitment • Encourage regional exchanges • Networking: JISC Analytics, SoLAR. SURF, MINES ?? • Participate
- 39. More information on Apereo: ian.dolphin@apereo.org On the Analytics Initiative: A.M.Berg@uva.nl