Paper Info
Title
From Heterogeneous Activities to Unified Analytics Dashboards
Abstract
Teachers often wish to integrate activities from disparate sources into their courses. For example, gamified activities, mediated through technology, can promote the type of active learning required to develop higher-level engagement by students. However, unless the activities have been designed to facilitate it, integrating their analytics into a single dashboard can require significant development effort. A general solution to such heterogeneous analytics integration can be of great value, by presenting a single view of student actions throughout the different parts of a course. We describe the problems presented when integrating the analytics of three heterogeneous stand-alone activities, in the context of a EU project to improve software engineering teaching. The idea is to increase student engagement via gamification, and explore the design space of possible solutions for providing integrated analytics over the heterogeneous activities. We then describe the design of a proof-of-concept implementation, based on the use of both xAPI trackers and simple CSV files for information exchange, single sign-on, a minimal class management web application, and updates to the analytics platform to allow dynamic changes in the multi-level analysis. The resulting approach can be readily applied to similar heterogeneous scenarios.
Year
DOI
Venue
2019
10.1109/EDUCON.2019.8725222
2019 IEEE Global Engineering Education Conference (EDUCON)
Keywords
Field
DocType
Servers,Authentication,Software,Games,Buildings,Engineering education
Data science,Engineering,Dashboard (business),Analytics,Multimedia
Conference
ISSN
ISBN
Citations 
2165-9567
978-1-5386-9506-7
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
0
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Iván Martínez-ortiz144748.37
Iván Pérez-Colado200.34
Dan Cristian Rotaru300.34
Manuel Freire421423.39
Baltasar Fernández-Manjón572887.00