Learning Analytics and Dashboards for Education Systems

The rapid growth of the usage of learning management systems in the education system is becoming more common nowadays. With easy access to the internet, learners, educators, learning management systems are well connected. Access devices like smartphones, phablets, tablets, wearable devices, smartwatches, all-in-one laptops, etc. are now more affordable than ever. These access devices are promoting online activities. Both learners and educators’ online activities generate an enormous amount of data that are traditionally either wasted or dumped into storage devices. Since computing power is continuously evolving and increasing, there are opportunities to process and analyze the data for improving the learning systems. The learning analytics is the process of educational data analysis, data mining, monitoring, assessing, reporting, etc. The result of learning analytics is delivered to the users in a display to a consolidated and arranged display on a single screen so the information can be viewed at a glance called dashboard. This paper introduces blended learning, learning management systems, learning analytics, and learning analytics dashboard that can open a new perspective for educators and education data miners.