Student Focused Dashboards - An Analysis of Current Student Dashboards and What Students Really Want

Gabriel Reimers, Anna Neovesky

2015

Abstract

Online learning analytics dashboards are already available in various online learning platforms and are in use at schools and universities. In this paper we give an overview about several existing dashboard applications. Most of these dashboards are either targeted at teachers and tutors or focus on the presentation of research relevant learning analytics concepts. We present two surveys among school and university students asking them about their requirements on a learning dashboard. The results show that basic requirements of students are not addressed in current learning platforms and dashboards. We formulate several research questions that need to be answered to create dashboards that put students in the center of dashboard design processes and give an outline of our own efforts in that direction.

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in Harvard Style

Reimers G. and Neovesky A. (2015). Student Focused Dashboards - An Analysis of Current Student Dashboards and What Students Really Want . In Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Computer Supported Education - Volume 1: CSEDU, ISBN 978-989-758-107-6, pages 399-404. DOI: 10.5220/0005475103990404


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@conference{csedu15,
author={Gabriel Reimers and Anna Neovesky},
title={Student Focused Dashboards - An Analysis of Current Student Dashboards and What Students Really Want},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Computer Supported Education - Volume 1: CSEDU,},
year={2015},
pages={399-404},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0005475103990404},
isbn={978-989-758-107-6},
}


in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Computer Supported Education - Volume 1: CSEDU,
TI - Student Focused Dashboards - An Analysis of Current Student Dashboards and What Students Really Want
SN - 978-989-758-107-6
AU - Reimers G.
AU - Neovesky A.
PY - 2015
SP - 399
EP - 404
DO - 10.5220/0005475103990404