Information Sources and their Potential for Multimodal Learning Analytics in Laboratory-based Learning

Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft mbH & Co. KG eBooks, pp. 139–152

Abstract

Multimodal learning analytics offer opportunities to understand learning processes more precisely and to use these insights to improve or even indivi dualize learning environments for everyone.Educational lab environments are usually shared spaces: Learners come and go at regular intervals, engage with prescribed learning activities, andhopefully-gain practical knowledge on the way to add real-world relevan ce to the theoretical knowledge they have obtained in traditional lecture halls.Digital means can help to transform those shared spaces into personal learning environments catering to individual needs in the learning process.This contribution aims to explore the potential of various enhancements to laboratories as data sources for these improvement cycles.It introduces several approaches and device categories and provides experiences and gui delines on real-world integration for the early integration of sustainable data collection and usage in lab-based research projects.

Authors 3

1. Matthias Ehlenz Aachen

   RWTH Aachen University

   Affiliation as printed

   RWTH Aachen University Learning Technologies Research Group Ahornstr. 55 52074 Aachen , Germany

   RWTH Aachen University Learning Technologies Research Group Ahornstr. 55 52074 Aachen, Germany

2. Birte Heinemann Aachen

   RWTH Aachen University

   Affiliation as printed

   RWTH Aachen University Learning Technologies Research Group Ahornstr. 55 52074 Aachen , Germany

   RWTH Aachen University Learning Technologies Research Group Ahornstr. 55 52074 Aachen, Germany

3. Ulrik Schroeder corresponding Aachen

   RWTH Aachen University

   Affiliation as printed

   RWTH Aachen University Learning Technologies Research Group Ahornstr. 55 52074 Aachen , Germany

   RWTH Aachen University Learning Technologies Research Group Ahornstr. 55 52074 Aachen, Germany