Multimodal Learning Analytics by Xavier Ochoa
Event details
| Date | 24.09.2015 |
| Hour | 11:15 › 12:00 |
| Speaker | Xavier Ochoa currently is a Principal Professor at the Faculty of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Escuela Superior Politécnica del Litoral (ESPOL) in Guayaquil, Ecuador. He coordinates the research group on Teaching and Learning Technologies (TEA) at the Information Technology Center (CTI) at ESPOL. He currently serves in the Executive Committee of the Society for the Research in Learning Analytics (SoLAR), the Latin American Community on Learning Objects and Technologies (LACLO) and the Latin American Open Textbook Initiative (LATIn). He coordinates several regional and international projects in the field of Learning Technologies. His main research interests revolve around Learning Analytics, Multimodal Learning Analytics and Data Science. |
| Location | |
| Category | Conferences - Seminars |
Learning Analytics is the measurement and analysis of the learning process in order to provide feedback to instructors and learners to improve it. This definition is generally instantiated as systems that provide recommendations and predictions based on the data automatically generated when students work and collaborate inside online systems such as Learning Management Systems (LMS) or Massive Open Online Courses (MOOC). However, most learning still occurs outside online tools: in classrooms, labs, study rooms and at home, where data is not automatically captured or stored. This has lead to a streetlight effect, where learning is analysed only where it is easy to analyse, not where it is really happening. This talk will introduce the topic of Multimodal Learning Analytics, an effort to use all available sources of information (gestures, speech, movement, writing, online logs, etc.) to understand the learning process not only online, but in the real-life settings. During the talk, examples of Multimodal systems will be presented and several current research issues in the field will be explored: data streams integration, real-time feedback, distributed vs. centralised capture and ethical concerns.
Practical information
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- Free
- This event is internal