Virtual Learning Process Environment: Cohort Analytics for Learning and Learning Processes
Traditional higher-education classrooms allow lecturers to observe students- behaviours and responses to a particular pedagogy during learning in a way that can influence changes to the pedagogical approach. Within current e-learning systems it is difficult to perform continuous analysis of the cohort-s behavioural tendency, making real-time pedagogical decisions difficult. This paper presents a Virtual Learning Process Environment (VLPE) based on the Business Process Management (BPM) conceptual framework. Within the VLPE, course designers can model various education pedagogies in the form of learning process workflows using an intuitive flow diagram interface. These diagrams are used to visually track the learning progresses of a cohort of students. This helps assess the effectiveness of the chosen pedagogy, providing the information required to improve course design. A case scenario of a cohort of students is presented and quantitative statistical analysis of their learning process performance is gathered and displayed in realtime using dashboards.
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Evaluation in a Four-Year Undergraduate Pharmacy Curriculum," In
American Journal of Pharmaceutical Education, vol. 71, no. 5, 2007.
[2] G. Corcoran, "Blended learning lead institute," in Proceedings of the
Australian Vocational Education and Training Research Association,
2009.
[3] M.J. Matuga, "Electronic pedagogical practice: the art and science of
teaching and learning on-line," in Educational Technology and Society,
vol. 4, no. 3, pp. 77-84, July 2001.
[4] M. Crossan, H. Lane, R. White. And L. Djurfeldt, "Organizational
learning: Dimensions for a theory," in The International Journal of
Organizational Analysis, vol. 3, no. 4, pp.337-360, 1995.
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vol. 14, no. 3, pp.375-394, 1993.
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developing your VLE," Oxford, UK: Routledge, 2007.
[7] k. Levinsen, and R. Orngreen, "Locating Students' Competencies - A
Prerequisite for Collaboration," in Proceedings from 2nd European
Conference on e-Learning (ECEL 2003), pp.261-266, Nov. 2003.
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patterns and making predic-tions with data mining techniques in online
teaching," Journal of Online Learning and Teaching, vol. 4 no. 4, 2008
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Deep Learning and Knowledge Sharing?" Electronic Journal of
elearning, vol. 4, no. 1, pp.41-48, 2006.
[10] N. Nanjiani and T.M. Kelly, "The Business Case for E-Learning,"
publisher: Cisco Press, Oct. 2004.
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Face Instruction," American Journal of Distance Education, vol.16, no.2,
pp.99-113, 2002.
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methodology for elearning content development," in Proceedings of
IADIS International Conference e-Society, pp.954-959, July. 2004.
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Danielson, "Exploring the e-learning state of art," The Electronic
Journal of e-Learning, vol. 6, no. 2, pp.77-88, 2008.
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Learning, vol. 2, no. 1, pp.7, 2005.
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Transdiscipling, vol. 8, pp.75-86, 2005.
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between the individual and social levels of cognition," Educational
Technology, vol. 41, no. 2, pp.40-44, 2001.
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vygotskian thought," Educational Technology, vol. 41, no. 3, pp.31-41,
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Policy, politics and pragmatism," Electronic Journal of e-Learning,
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undergraduate students," 2nd International conference on business and
economic research, Mar. 2011.
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learning strategies computer attitudes, according to college students
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Quality in Higher Education, vol. 13, no. 1 pp.45-56, Apr. 2007.
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teaching and the first-year experience," New Directions for Student
Services, no. 117 pp.25-34, Spr. 2007.
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Retrieved December 2nd, 2011 from
http://learninganalytics.net/LearningAnalyticsDefinitionsProcessesPoten
tial.pdf
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Concepts to the Teaching in Elementary School," 8th Intl. Conf. on
Intelligent Systems Design and Applications, vol. 2, pp. 543-548, 2008.
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development of a resource for monitoring online student networking,"
British Journal of Educational Technology, vol. 41, pp.736-752, 2010.
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Tracking students' Online Learning Activities," C. Montgomerie and J.
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College Completion," Retrieved December 5th, 2011 from
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and T. Ritter, "Automated model driven development processes," in
Proceedings of the ECMDA workshop on Model Driven Tool and
Process Integration, pp.1-13, 2008.
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Learning Environment: The Human Interaction Management System."
in Proceedings of the Red-Conference: Rethinking Education in the
Knowledge Society, March 2011.
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Evaluation: An Integrated Framework," in Proceedings of the 7th
international conference on Electronic Government, pp.85-97, 2008.
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