Post on 30-Jul-2015
Learning Analytics Principles & Constraints
Khalil, Mohammad and Ebner, Martin EdMedia 2015, Montréal
What Can Learning Analytics do?
• Students improve their performance
• Predict the student’s grades
• Enhance retention percentages
• Point difficulties in courses models
What if Learning Analy/cs went wrong?
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Mistaken Predic/ons!
Ethical breaches!!
Learning Analytics - Constraints Revealing Personal Information
Morality to view students’ data
Collecting and Analyzing data Transparency
Students’ data deletion policy
Learning Analytics - Constraints
Achieving Confidentiality, Integrity and Availability
Who owns students data, Students or institutions?
Data Protection and Copyright Laws limit the use of LA apps
Inaccurate analysis results?