Learning Technology and Analytics

The course is a combination of lectures and project work. The lectures will support the progress of the project, the project has different deliverables and is done in teams. Each team has to work with a learning system, put it into practice, collect empirical data and analyze them. Groupwise final presentation of the system and the collected learning analytics.

The course gives fundamental knowledge of learning systems and learning analytics. In particular, on completion of the course, students will be able to:

• Understand the design and development of contemporary learning systems.
• Explain how a technology feature influences learning processes.
• Evaluate the effect of a learning system through learner-generated data (ie, learning analytics).
• Elaborate a study that assesses the effectiveness and efficiency of a learning technology given the target audience and expected learning outcomes.

Lectures and a project. Each team has to submit project deliverables during the semester and a final report.

The course will be held in English.