Embedding Accessibility And Usability Considerations Into E Learning Research
SoLAR storm 25 10-12 - learning analytics - disabled students - accessibility - mc - slideshare
1. WHAT CAN LEARNING/ACADEMIC ANALYTICS CONTRIBUTE
TO DISABLED STUDENTS’ LEARNING;
AND TO ACCESSIBILITY IN E-LEARNING SYSTEMS?
Martyn Cooper (OU - IET)
martyn.cooper@open.ac.uk
Learning Analytics symposium
A SoLAR Storm event hosted
by The Open University
1.25-4.30pm BST, Thursday 25
October 2012
2. Programme
• 1.25pm BST Welcome from Simon Buckingham Shum
• 1.30 pm BST Bieke Schreurs from OU NL will talk about her work in
progress as an intern developing social network analytics for the
SocialLearn project, together with Maarten de Laat and Chris
Teplovs
• 2.00pm BST Martyn Cooper: What Can Learning/Academic
Analytics Contribute to Disabled Students’ Learning and to
Accessibility in e-Learning Systems?
• 2.30pm BST Gill Kirkup: Data Wrangling – Bridging the Gap
between Analytics and Users
• 3.00pm BST Denise Whitelock: Good Pedagogical Practice Driving
Learning Analytics: OpenMentor, Open Comment and SAFeSEA
• 3.30pm BST Discussion
7. Overview
Explore the potential for improving
accessibility
Enhanced support for disabled
students
Issues
8. Accessibility Case Study
• Accessibility refers
here to properties
of VLEs and Learning
Recourses that make
them useable by
disabled students
• The OU currently
(Sep 2012) has
17,000+ students
declaring a disability
10. In last week:
Analysis of completion and pass
rates
• Disabled students vs. those
not declaring a disability
• Data visualization (shard
diagrams)
• % of students on all modules
with 10+ disabled students
completing / passing
(2010/11)
• Supported by IET’s Student
Statistics Team – thanks to
Naomi Jeffery
12. Case Study: Support for disabled
students (dashboards)
Scenario
Kris is a disabled student who has access to a
dashboard of analytics that provide him with
feedback when he is at his computer or using a
mobile device. He has set the dashboard to
send him a weekly summary of his activity on
university sites and on a set of external sites
where he has chosen to share his data with the
analytics system. He receives basic statistics on
attendance, participation and marks on his
formal assignments and exams. He receives
personalised recommendations suggesting
resources and contacts available at his location
and relevant to his range of learning interests.
However, what he finds most useful for
reflection are the visual ‘mirrors’ that the
system presents to him, plus suggestions of
ways in which he might become a more The Learning Analytics Cycle
effective, strategic learner.
13. Discussion
• What we can learn from LA
about disabled students?
• How else might approaches
enhance accessibility
• Issues?
14. Who’s Who
Lead Contact information
Martyn Cooper martyn.cooper@open.ac.uk
(IET)
Rebecca Ferguson
(IET)
Annika Wolff
(KMi)
Naomi Jeffery (IET
Student Survey &
Statistics Team)
15. Summary
• Academic analytics has potential to identify
where remedial action on accessibility might
be needed – promotes continued
improvement!
• Any learning analytics advantage for students
should be extended to disabled students
• Specialist disability support can be brought to
bear in a timely fashion for disabled students
16. Resources
• Martyn’s Blog:
http://martyncooper.wordpress.com/
• LinkedIn Group: “Learning Analytics for
Accessibility”
http://tinyurl.com/csyklmd
• This slide deck and related resources:
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