«Towards adaptive learning: CSEV's experience in 'Learning Analytics'»

Abstract

Education is facing a scenario in which openness, adaptation or collaboration replace concepts such as mandatory, tightness or standardization, and that requires adaptation by all to achieve a better implementation of the resources available to students, teachers and educational managers.

Learning analytics (Learning Analytics in its Anglo-Saxon meaning), offer us this opportunity, to the extent that they use the information generated in the learning processes, to improve said processes. In this way, through the use of these analysis techniques, it is possible to obtain a series of advantages that will allow the processes to be made more flexible and personalised. This talk will attempt, on the one hand, to identify and illustrate precisely what these advantages are and what options learning analytics techniques offer, and, on the other, to present CSEV’s recent experience in building a Learning Analytics tool. Analytics linked to the implementation of Massive and Open Online Courses (MOOCs), where it finds a natural fit, not only because of the enormous amount of information handled in these environments, but also because of the different types of information.

Bios

David Gago is Director of Analysis and Prospective of the Higher Center Foundation for Virtual Teaching (CSEV). He previously worked as an Advisor in the Cabinet of the Secretary of State for Telecommunications and for the Information Society (SETSI), of the Government of Spain, and in the private sector as a consultant. He is the Extraordinary End of Degree Award, Doctor in Economics and Winner of the XI Víctor Mendoza Award for Best Doctoral Thesis.

Daniel Torres, currently General Director of CSEV, is an expert in the application of Information and Communication Technologies to education, as well as open innovation processes in the educational world. From the CSEV Foundation, he promotes the incorporation of innovative technologies and methodologies into learning processes, one of his longest-running manifestations being the development of Learning Analytics.