Using an Activity Dashboard to Support Awareness and Reflection in a European Virtual Seminar

Maren Scheffel; Hendrik Drachsler; Marcus Specht

Using an Activity Dashboard to Support Awareness and Reflection in a European Virtual Seminar

Maren Scheffel, Hendrik Drachsler, Marcus Specht

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Abstract

In order to support students in online learning environments to become more aware of and reflect on their activities we have implemented an Activity Dashboard within the learning environment of an online course. The Activity Dashboard provides feedback, visualised in radar diagrams and bar charts. At the end of the course an evaluation will be run and the different learning groups will be compared with one another. We are also looking into comparing the previous runs where students had no dashboard and hope to see differences in the behaviour of the students that have been supported with the Activity Dashboard.

Original language	English
Publication status	Published - 2015
Event	The 5th International Learning Analytics and Knowledge (LAK) Conference: Scaling Up: Big Data to Big Impact - Marist College, Poughkeepsie, United States Duration: 16 Mar 2015 → 20 Mar 2015 Conference number: 5 http://lak15.solaresearch.org/home

Conference

Conference	The 5th International Learning Analytics and Knowledge (LAK) Conference
Abbreviated title	LAK'15
Country/Territory	United States
City	Poughkeepsie
Period	16/03/15 → 20/03/15
Internet address	http://lak15.solaresearch.org/home

Keywords

learning analytics
awareness
reflection
visualisation
group dynamics

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