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Learning dashboards: an overview and future research opportunities

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In this paper, we present work on learning analytics that aims to support learners and teachers through dashboard applications, ranging from small mobile applications to learnscapes on large public displays. Dashboards typically capture and visualize traces of learning activities, in order to promote awareness, reflection, and sense-making, and to enable learners to define goals and track progress toward these goals. Based on an analysis of our own work and a broad range of similar learning dashboards, we identify HCI issues for this exciting research area.

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Acknowledgments

We thank all evaluation participants for their most valuable feedback. The research leading to these results has received funding from the European Community Seventh Framework Programme (FP7/2007–2013) under Grant Agreement No. 231396 (ROLE). Katrien Verbert is a post-doctoral fellow of the Research Foundation—Flanders (FWO).

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    Katrien Verbert, Sten Govaerts, Erik Duval, Jose Luis Santos, Frans Van Assche, Gonzalo Parra & Joris Klerkx

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    Katrien Verbert

  3. School of Engineering, EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland

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Verbert, K., Govaerts, S., Duval, E. et al. Learning dashboards: an overview and future research opportunities. Pers Ubiquit Comput 18, 1499–1514 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00779-013-0751-2

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