A learning portal for organic education: A reflection on the user experience
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A learning portal for organic education: A reflection on the user experience Vassilis Protonotarios, Nikos Palavitsinis , Madalina Oana Ungur, Nikos Manouselis Agro-Know Technologies, Greece Agro-Know Technologies, Greece ED-MEDIA 2011-World Conference on Educational Multimedia, Hypermedia & Telecommunications
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A learning portal for organic education: A reflection on the user experience
Vassilis Protonotarios, Nikos Palavitsinis, Madalina Oana Ungur, Nikos Manouselis
Agro-Know Technologies, GreeceAgro-Know Technologies, Greece
ED-MEDIA 2011-World Conference on Educational Multimedia, Hypermedia & Telecommunications
about Organic.Edunet
Completed eContentPlus project (10/2007 – 10/2010)
Main objective: Make learning content on Organic Agriculture and Agro-ecology available online, for a range of stakeholders.
And: Develop educational scenarios to be used within schools & universities
www.organic-edunet.eu
STATS 10/2010 2/2011 6/2011
Visits 22.100 30.700 53.900
Page views 120.000 146.100 209.000
Uni. visitors 14.300 21.400 41.800
Countries 130 150 166
Reg. users 1.000 1.800 2.100
Multilingualism
Multilingual interface (17 languages) Text-based search Browsing Tag-based search Semantic search
Multilingual resources (10 languages) Images, videos, articles, scenarios, etc
Multilingual metadata (17 languages) IEEE LOM Application Profile
Research Questions
Which are the differences in portal usage, if any, from users coming from project countries Vs non-project countries?
How can the answer “feed” further development/enrichment of Organic.Edunet Portal, and its content?
Define
Bounce: Any visit, during which the user views only one page and then “exits” the portal
Non project countries: 140 countries that generated visits to Organic.Edunet Portal but was not part of the consortium
Project countries: The ten (10) EU countries that participated in the Organic.Edunet project
Statistics
Portal-level statistics Visits per day, Page Views per day, Unique
visitors per day & Bounces per day
User-level statistics Average time on portal, average time on page
Results on portal-level (1/3)
project countries Visits per day Page views per day
Unique visitors per day
Bounces per day
Austria 2,79 15,79 1,82 1,10
Estonia 7,41 23,86 6,38 4,32
Germany 3,02 11,67 2,17 1,60
Greece 18,87 101,64 11,74 8,22
Hungary 6,25 24,31 4,27 3,53
Norway 2,77 11,46 1,77 1,52
Romania 4,14 22,18 2,79 2,08
Spain (excl. Alcala) 3,01 9,46 2,24 1,15
Sweden 0,41 1,58 0,29 0,20
United Kingdom 1,87 8,94 1,19 1,02
Results on portal-level (2/3)
Visits per day
Page views per day
Unique visitors per
day
Bounces per day
Sum for project countries
50,5 230,9 34,7 24,7
Sum for non-project countries
21,7 76,5 17,4 13,4
Results on portal-level (3/3)
Results on user-level (1/2)
project countries avg time on portal (sec) avg time on page (sec)
Austria 218 61
Estonia 106 64
Germany 131 56
Greece 218 61
Hungary 128 67
Norway 108 53
Romania 148 65
Spain 412 62
Sweden 139 64
UK 120 59
Results on user-level (2/2)
Average time on portal (sec)
Average time on page (sec)
Project countries 172,8 61,2
Non-project countries 83,2 7,8
From LAK 2011 to ED-MEDIA 2011
1st International Conference on Learning Analytics and Knowledge 2011
ED-MEDIA 2011-World Conference on Educational Multimedia, Hypermedia & Telecommunications
Different Study
Applying Analytics for a Learning Portal: the Organic.Edunet Case Study Studied the portal usage ONLY for project
countries in different periods of time Took advantage of open events in project
countries to see how these affected the portal usage
Compare
Statistics on the portal-level, from September 2010 & April 2011
Visits per day
Page views per day
Unique visitors per day
Bounces per day
September 2010 46,9 182 36,9 26,4
April 2011 50,5 230,9 34,7 24,7
Compare
Statistics on the user-level, from September 2010 & April 2011
Average time on portal (sec)
Average time on page (sec)
September 2010 188 61
April 2011 172,8 61,2
Conclusions
Project countries generated higher traffic to the portal as expected Greece, Estonia, Hungary mainly
Bounces were high in both cases More users coming, more of them leaving
Simple analytics can help in tracking usage of learning portals More in-depth analysis maybe needed
Future
Look at the content accessed in relation to the countries of the users accessing it Serve as a guide for the addition of content in
new languages
Examine social metadata provided on the portal for resources in different languages Characteristics of resources that attract more
attention from users
Future
Interesting to focus on usage of the portal in terms of the languages of the content that is published,
Outcomes from this study will be used in Organic.Lingua, a project that will deploy translation services on the Organic.Edunet metadata
Metadata quality in learning repositories: Issues & considerations
Nikos Palavitsinis, Nikos Manouselis, Salvador-Sanchez Alonso
ED-MEDIA 2011, 27/7-1/7, Lisbon, Portugal
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A learning portal for organic education: A reflection on the user experience
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