ET 623 - Learning Analytics

Ramkumar Rajendran

IIT Bombay | [email protected]

Sandeep Yadav

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Logistics
▪ Class Timing – Slot 6
• Videos are available in Youtube, Learning Analytics Tools
▪ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yOQcRoFf2_k&list=PLOzRYVm0a65e5FCHRUC
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• Link to the videos will be posted in Moodle

▪ LMS: Moodle
▪ LC 201

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Registration Issues
- Max Cap - 50
- We have 90 students, so we can’t accept any more students
- Expecting 65-70 students in this class
- If the course is not accepted in your ASC, please contact ASC

This course is not allowed for UG first and second year students. Everyone
else can register this course.

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Expected Learning from ET 623

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- What is Learning Analytics?

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Learning Analytics

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Course Outline
Topics
▪ Intro to LA
▪ Levels of Analytics
▪ Data Collection in Classroom, TEL, MOOC, Ethics and Privacy
▪ Pre-processing, Descriptive Analytics – Visualization
▪ Diagnostic Analytics – Why? Pattern Mining, Correlation
▪ Predictive Analytics – KNN, Naïve Bayes, Regression, DT, Confusion Matrix
▪ Affective Computing
▪ Intro to Intelligent Learning Environments - PAL/ITS
▪ Content Analytics – Intro to NLP
▪ Multimodal Learning Analytics

Project

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Course Outline
Last year course website: https://sites.google.com/view/etiitb-610-2021

- This course is designed for students who are not familar with
Programming and new to ML
- We will not teach Mathematics or too much programming or advance
ML topics
- This course is designed for beginners to get interested in data collection
and applying ML methods in EdTech Domain
- If you already have knowledge of Python Programming and ML
methods, please don’t take this course
- Ask your questions and solve your doubts today, instead of wasting a
semester

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Mark Distribution
▪ End Sem – 30 %
▪ Course Project – 20%
• We will start working on project after Midsem th week

Assignment and Class interaction - 50%

Grades: Absolute grading. - Grading will be strict. Don’t take this course for
better grades

Non Graded Assignment - Write a Python script to construct new features and
plot them - more details in moodle.
- Marks - 0

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Other Important Things
▪ Any questions

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Data For LA
What data do we need or can collect from learning environments?

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Data Analytics
Data is a collection of facts

Numbers Pictures Videos text measurements Observations

Analytics put it to use through analysis

Collection Transformation Organisation Conclusions Predictions Informed decisions

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Definition
From LAK 2011, conference webpage:
▪ “Learning analytics is the measurement, collection, analysis and
reporting of data about learners and their contexts, for purposes of
understanding and optimising learning and the environments in
which it occurs”

Link: https://solaresearch.org/events/lak/#lak11

▪ SoLAR - Society of Learning Analytics Research

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But why we need AI in Education
- What are uses for AI in education.
- Examples - proctoring, automated essay grading

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How people learn? - Think - Pair and Share

▪ Think How people learn? Consider you have given a complex task to do, what
are the steps or learning processes needed to complete the task?
▪ Pair with your neighbour and discuss your answer. Together write down the
learning process.
▪ Share with the class

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Cognition
- Mental process
- learning
- comprehending through experience
- thinking
- senses.

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Metacognition
- Metacognition consists of both metacognitive knowledge and
metacognitive experience or regulation (John Flavell)
- Process of thinking about thinking.
- Awareness and understanding of one's own thought processes

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Metacognition
- Metacognition consists of both metacognitive knowledge and
metacognitive experience or regulation (John Flavell)
- Process of thinking about thinking.
- Awareness and understanding of one's own thought processes
Recently researchers agreed that Metacognition is a continuous processes
- Mostly by SRL community
- Cyclic process
- Plan - Control and Regulate - Monitor - Aware - Reflect

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Affect
Basic Emotions
- Six basic emotions or Navrasa
- Joy, Sad, Disgust, Anger, Fear, Surprise
- Love, Compassion and Courage
- Learner Centric Emotions
- Boredom: uninterested in the current problem
- Confusion: poor comprehension of material, attempts to resolve erroneous
belief
- Disgust: annoyance and/or irritation with the material and/or their abilities
- Frustration: difficulty with the material and an inability to fully grasp the
material
- Surprise: genuinely does not expect an outcome or feedback
- Delight: a high degree of satisfaction

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Multi Channel Data

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GazeCloud - Realtime Eye Gaze tracking using
Webcam

https://api.gazerecorder.com/
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OpenPose - Realtime Posture Tracking

Z. Cao, G. Hidalgo, T. Simon, S. -E. Wei and Y. Sheikh, "OpenPose: Realtime Multi-Person 2D Pose Estimation Using Part Affinity Fields," in
IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, vol. 43, no. 1, pp. 172-186, 1 Jan. 2021, doi: 10.1109/TPAMI.2019.2929257.
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Ashwin, T. S., and Ram Mohana Reddy Guddeti. "Unobtrusive behavioral analysis of students in classroom environment using
non-verbal cues." IEEE Access 7 (2019): 150693-150709. 25
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Multimodality

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Educational Data Mining
▪ International EDM society
• EDM conference, and Journal

▪ EDM:
• Developing methods and tools for data from educational settings
• Application of Data Mining, Machine Learning
• Focused on developing learner models to support learning

▪ Link: http://educationaldatamining.org/

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Academic Analytics
▪ Learning Analytics at institution/University, regional or national
level
▪ For example analysing data from Learning Management System
(LMS) like Moodle
▪ Similar to Business Intelligence

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Text Book
- No standard text book
- Slides and research papers referred in the class
- We will share all the reading materials in Moodle/Google Drive
- Handbook of LA https://www.solaresearch.org/publications/hla-22/

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Thank You

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