Evaluating and monitoring the learning progress: Learning analytics

Abstract

Within educational society, metrics and grades (e.g., standardized-tests) are commonly being employed to assess the knowledge, skills and educational achievement that can be measured according to specific criteria or standards. This traditional practice of assessment is currently being replaced with an emerging and promising measurement technique for learning processes, that is, Learning Analytics. With the help of innovative ICTenhanced applications, learning analytics has already been utilized to apply a process of gathering and analyzing large amounts of data about learning progress for purposes of understanding and optimizing learning experiences and environments. In this paper, we discuss the notion of learning analytics that presents a paradigmatic change in the measurement, collection, analysis and reporting of data about making decisions to improve the learning process