Learning Analytics Dashboards

Abstract

The number of data generated by educational technologies is increasing every day. To make sense of this overload of data, learning dashboards are becoming more and more popular inside the learning analytics field. However, most of these dashboards are implemented in a very specific context and are not easily scalable to other contexts. To use these dashboards in other contexts, there is a need for guidelines to adapt and create learning dashboards. To address this need, we developed a guideline to identify the context of the learning analytics dashboard as a first step in the process of adapting and creating learning dashboards. To test our guideline, we held a workshop with 12 participants at in Riobamba, Ecuador that resulted in a modified version of the guideline. This final guideline states that to identify the context of a learning dashboard, at least the objective, the stakeholders, the interactions, and the key moments have to be identified.