TY - GEN
T1 - An initial review of learning analytics in Latin america
AU - Dos Santos, Henrique Lemos
AU - Cechinel, Cristian
AU - Nunes, Joao Batista Carvalho
AU - Ochoa, Xavier
PY - 2017/11/27
Y1 - 2017/11/27
N2 - Learning Analytics focuses on improving learning process by studying and analyzing data produced during the process itself . It covers the collection, measurement, analysis, reporting and knowledge discovering on data about students, teachers and institutions. Learning Analytics has been widely developed in Anglo Saxon countries. USA, United Kingdom, Canada and Australia are amongst the main contributors to this domain. Latin America is also starting to measure and optimize teaching and learning processes through Learning Analytics; however, the existing attempts in this direction are very isolated as there is a lack of a regional community to foster the interchange of ideas, methodologies, tools and local results in the field. The present work is a first attempt to identify Learning Analytics initiatives in Latin America by conducting a systematic mapping of papers from Latin American authors, and also by analyzing data about research groups from Latin America (collected through an open survey). In total, we categorized 30 articles published from 2011 until May 2016, and we analyzed data from 28 research groups that answered the open survey.
AB - Learning Analytics focuses on improving learning process by studying and analyzing data produced during the process itself . It covers the collection, measurement, analysis, reporting and knowledge discovering on data about students, teachers and institutions. Learning Analytics has been widely developed in Anglo Saxon countries. USA, United Kingdom, Canada and Australia are amongst the main contributors to this domain. Latin America is also starting to measure and optimize teaching and learning processes through Learning Analytics; however, the existing attempts in this direction are very isolated as there is a lack of a regional community to foster the interchange of ideas, methodologies, tools and local results in the field. The present work is a first attempt to identify Learning Analytics initiatives in Latin America by conducting a systematic mapping of papers from Latin American authors, and also by analyzing data about research groups from Latin America (collected through an open survey). In total, we categorized 30 articles published from 2011 until May 2016, and we analyzed data from 28 research groups that answered the open survey.
KW - Latin America
KW - Learning Analytics
KW - Research Groups
KW - Systematic Mapping
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U2 - 10.1109/LACLO.2017.8120913
DO - 10.1109/LACLO.2017.8120913
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85043463633
T3 - 12th Latin American Conference on Learning Objects and Technologies, LACLO 2017
SP - 1
EP - 9
BT - 12th Latin American Conference on Learning Objects and Technologies, LACLO 2017
A2 - Casali, Ana
A2 - Rivas, Mario Chacon
A2 - Diaz, Alicia
A2 - Sprock, Antonio Silva
PB - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
T2 - 12th Latin American Conference on Learning Objects and Technologies, LACLO 2017
Y2 - 9 October 2017 through 12 October 2017
ER -