Fostering Evidence-Based Education with Learning Analytics: Capturing Teaching-Learning Cases from Log Data

Evidence-based education has become more relevant in the current technology-enhanced teaching-learning era. This paper introduces how Educational BIG data has the potential to generate such evidence. As evidence-based education traditionally hooks on the meta-analysis of the literature, so there are...

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Published in:Educational Technology & Society Vol. 23; no. 4; pp. 14 - 29
Main Authors: Kuromiya, Hiroyuki, Majumdar, Rwitajit, Ogata, Hiroaki
Format: Journal Article
Language:English
Published: Palmerston North International Forum of Educational Technology ＆ Society 01.10.2020
International Forum of Educational Technology & Society
Subjects:
Active Learning
Automation
Big data
Blended Learning
Case Studies
College Science
Data analysis
Data Collection
Data processing
Education
Education (General)
Educational aspects
Educational technology
Electronic Mail
Electronic Publishing
Evidence Based Practice
evidence-based education
Foreign Countries
Full Length Articles
Instructional Effectiveness
Integrated Learning Systems
Intervention
Japan
Junior High School Students
L7-991
Learning
Learning Analytics
learning evidence analytics framework (leaf)
Learning Management Systems
Learning Strategies
Mathematics Instruction
Methods
Mixed effects model
Pedagogy
Peer Teaching
Physics
teaching-learning case
Technology application
Technology-enhanced Evidence-based Education &Learning (TEEL)
Japan
Evidence-based education
Learning analytics
Mixed effects model
Teaching-learning case
Technology-enhanced Evidence-based Education ＆ Learning (TEEL)
Learning Evidence Analytics Framework (LEAF)
ISSN:1176-3647, 1436-4522, 1436-4522
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Summary:Evidence-based education has become more relevant in the current technology-enhanced teaching-learning era. This paper introduces how Educational BIG data has the potential to generate such evidence. As evidence-based education traditionally hooks on the meta-analysis of the literature, so there are existing platforms that support manual input of evidence as structured information. However, such platforms often focus on researchers as end-users and its design is not aligned to the practitioners' workflow. In our work, we propose a technology-mediated process of capturing teaching-learning cases (TLCs) using a learning analytics framework. Each case is primarily a single data point regarding the result of an intervention and multiple such cases would generate an evidence of intervention effectiveness. To capture TLCs in our current context, our system automatically conducts statistical modelling of learning logs captured from Learning Management Systems (LMS) and an e-book reader. Indicators from those learning logs are evaluated by the Linear Mixed Effects model to compute whether an intervention had a positive learning effect. We present two case studies to illustrate our approach of extracting case effectiveness from two different learning contexts-one at a junior-high math class where email messages were sent as intervention and another in a blended learning context in a higher education physics class where an active learning strategy was implemented. Our novelty lies in the proposed automated approach of data aggregation, analysis, and case storing using a Learning Analytics framework for supporting evidence-based practice more accessible for practitioners.
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ISSN:1176-3647
1436-4522
1436-4522
DOI:10.30191/ETS.202010_23(4).0002