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Learning Analytics: Fundaments, Applications, and Trends

A View of the Current State of the Art to Enhance e-Learning

  • Provides an updated view of the application of learning analytics to the educational arena
  • Discusses the logistics of learning analytics: theories, models, frameworks, and methods
  • Sketches a conceptual frame composed of theoretical, formal, technological and experimental topics
  • Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

Part of the book series: Studies in Systems, Decision and Control (SSDC, volume 94)

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Table of contents (9 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xii
  2. Learning Analytics in Higher Education—A Literature Review

    • Philipp Leitner, Mohammad Khalil, Martin Ebner
    Pages 1-23
  3. A Landscape of Learning Analytics: An Exercise to Highlight the Nature of an Emergent Field

    • Alejandro Peña-Ayala, Leonor Adriana Cárdenas-Robledo, Humberto Sossa
    Pages 65-112
  4. A Review of Recent Advances in Adaptive Assessment

    • Jill-Jênn Vie, Fabrice Popineau, Éric Bruillard, Yolaine Bourda
    Pages 113-142
  5. Data-Driven Personalization of Student Learning Support in Higher Education

    • Danny Yen-Ting Liu, Kathryn Bartimote-Aufflick, Abelardo Pardo, Adam J. Bridgeman
    Pages 143-169
  6. Overcoming the MOOC Data Deluge with Learning Analytic Dashboards

    • Lorenzo Vigentini, Andrew Clayphan, Xia Zhang, Mahsa Chitsaz
    Pages 171-198
  7. A Priori Knowledge in Learning Analytics

    • Jean Simon
    Pages 199-227
  8. Knowledge Discovery from the Programme for International Student Assessment

    • Mirka Saarela, Tommi Kärkkäinen
    Pages 229-267
  9. Back Matter

    Pages 303-303

About this book

This book provides a conceptual and empirical perspective on learning analytics, its goal being to disseminate the core concepts, research, and outcomes of this emergent field. Divided into nine chapters, it offers reviews oriented on selected topics, recent advances, and innovative applications. It presents the broad learning analytics landscape and in-depth studies on higher education, adaptive assessment, teaching and learning. In addition, it discusses valuable approaches to coping with personalization and huge data, as well as conceptual topics and specialized applications that have shaped the current state of the art.

By identifying fundamentals, highlighting applications, and pointing out current trends, the book offers an essential overview of learning analytics to enhance learning achievement in diverse educational settings. As such, it represents a valuable resource for researchers, practitioners, and students interested in updating their knowledge and finding inspirations for their future work.

 

Editors and Affiliations

  • Instituto Politécnico Nacional, WOLNM & Escuela Superior de Ingeniería,Mecánica y Eléctrica, Zacatenco, México DF, Mexico

    Alejandro Peña-Ayala

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Learning Analytics: Fundaments, Applications, and Trends

  • Book Subtitle: A View of the Current State of the Art to Enhance e-Learning

  • Editors: Alejandro Peña-Ayala

  • Series Title: Studies in Systems, Decision and Control

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-52977-6

  • Publisher: Springer Cham

  • eBook Packages: Engineering, Engineering (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing AG 2017

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-52976-9Published: 28 February 2017

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-85029-0Published: 13 July 2018

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-52977-6Published: 17 February 2017

  • Series ISSN: 2198-4182

  • Series E-ISSN: 2198-4190

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XII, 303

  • Number of Illustrations: 24 b/w illustrations, 57 illustrations in colour

  • Topics: Computational Intelligence, Educational Technology, Learning & Instruction, Technology and Digital Education

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eBook USD 99.00
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Softcover Book USD 129.99
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Hardcover Book USD 179.99
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