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EC-TEL 2015: Design for Teaching and Learning in a Networked World pp 297–310Cite as

Towards Reading Session-Based Indicators in Educational Reading Analytics

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Abstract

It is a challenging task to identify eLearning courses parts that have to be revised to best suit learners’ requirements. Reading being one of the most salient learning activities, one way of doing so is to study how learners consume courses. We intend to support course authors (e.g. teachers) during courses revision by providing them with reading indicators. We use the concept of reading session to denote a learner’s active reading period, and we provide several associated reading indicators. In our server-side approach, reading sessions and indicators are calculated using web server logs. We evaluate the relevance of our proposals using logs from a major French eLearning platform. Results are promising: calculated reading sessions are theoretically more precise than other best applicable approaches, and course authors consider suggested indicators to be appropriate to courses revision. Using reading sessions and associated indicators could facilitate authors’ work of course reengineering.

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    With more than 850 courses and 1 million members, OpenClassrooms totalizes about 2.5 million unique visitors every month. See http://www.openclassrooms.com/.

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    The full set of indicators is briefly described at http://bit.ly/reading-indicators.

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    The questionnaire and full results are available at http://bit.ly/authors-survey.

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  1. Computer Science Department, University of Bejaia, 06000, Bejaia, Algeria

    Madjid Sadallah

  2. Research Center on Scientific and Technical Information CERIST, Algiers, Algeria

    Madjid Sadallah & Azze-Eddine Maredj

  3. LIRIS, UMR 5205 CNRS, Université de Lyon 1, 69622, Lyon, France

    Benoît Encelle

  4. LINA - UMR 6241 CNRS, Université de Nantes, Nantes, France

    Yannick Prié

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  1. University of Bath Spa, Bath, UK

    Gráinne Conole

  2. Jožef Stefan Institute, Ljubljana, Slovenia

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  3. Technische Universität Darmstadt, Darmstadt, Germany

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  4. Technische Universität Darmstadt, Darmstadt, Germany

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  5. IAE Lyon, Université Jean Moulin Lyon 3, Lyon, France

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Sadallah, M., Encelle, B., Maredj, AE., Prié, Y. (2015). Towards Reading Session-Based Indicators in Educational Reading Analytics. In: Conole, G., Klobučar, T., Rensing, C., Konert, J., Lavoué, E. (eds) Design for Teaching and Learning in a Networked World. EC-TEL 2015. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 9307. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-24258-3_22

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