TY - CHAP
T1 - A landscape of learning analytics
T2 - An exercise to highlight the nature of an emergent field
AU - Peña-Ayala, Alejandro
AU - Cárdenas-Robledo, Leonor Adriana
AU - Sossa, Humberto
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© Springer International Publishing AG 2017.
PY - 2017
Y1 - 2017
N2 - Before the increasing efforts for understanding, predicting, and enhancing students’ learning in educational settings, learning analytics (LA) emerges as a candidate research area to tackle such issues. Thus, several work lines have been conducted, as well as diverse conceptual and theoretical perspectives have been arisen. Moreover, quite interesting and useful outcomes have been produced during the LA short lifetime. However, a clear idea of diverse questions is still pending to be given. (e.g., what does learning analytics mean? what are its backgrounds, related domains, and underlying elements? which are the objects of its applications? and what about the trends and challenges to be considered?) This is the reason why the chapter aims at responding those concerns by a sketch of a conceptual scenery that explains the LA background, its underlying domains and nature, including a survey of recent and relevant approaches, and a relation of risks and opportunities.
AB - Before the increasing efforts for understanding, predicting, and enhancing students’ learning in educational settings, learning analytics (LA) emerges as a candidate research area to tackle such issues. Thus, several work lines have been conducted, as well as diverse conceptual and theoretical perspectives have been arisen. Moreover, quite interesting and useful outcomes have been produced during the LA short lifetime. However, a clear idea of diverse questions is still pending to be given. (e.g., what does learning analytics mean? what are its backgrounds, related domains, and underlying elements? which are the objects of its applications? and what about the trends and challenges to be considered?) This is the reason why the chapter aims at responding those concerns by a sketch of a conceptual scenery that explains the LA background, its underlying domains and nature, including a survey of recent and relevant approaches, and a relation of risks and opportunities.
KW - Analytics
KW - Assessment
KW - Behavior
KW - Learner
KW - Learning analytics
KW - Learning settings
KW - Performance
KW - Prediction
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85028964395&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1007/978-3-319-52977-6_3
DO - 10.1007/978-3-319-52977-6_3
M3 - Capítulo
AN - SCOPUS:85028964395
T3 - Studies in Systems, Decision and Control
SP - 65
EP - 112
BT - Studies in Systems, Decision and Control
PB - Springer International Publishing
ER -