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Modern education is benefitted from using Learning Management Systems (LMS) enabling automatic collection of large amount of data about students’ activities, progress and results. However, currently there is a lack of enough means for teachers to effectively analyze and assess results from such data. This paper presents a research aiming to design and develop a new Learning Analytics (LA) solution which uses the existing LMS as distributed systems and storages of data through user-oriented services. It integrates the best features from LA and data visualization applications, from service composition platforms empower users to build complex business processes. Using teacher-oriented services data is retrieved directly from the relevant LMS as a response to educator’s request and are visualized in appropriate way for fast and easy adoption. The paper describes the new approach and functionalities of this solution and ends with some challenges and conclusions.
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The research is done with financial support of DFNI I02-2/2014 (ДФHИ И02-2/2014) project, funded by the National Science Fund, Ministry of Education and Science in Bulgaria and Sofia University “St. Kliment Ohridski” research science fund project N80-10-217/24.04.2017 “Inquiry-based learning in the field of high technologies as an application of modern information technologies”.
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Miteva, D., Dimov, A., Stefanova, E. (2018). Teacher-Oriented Data Services for Learning Analytics. In: Auer, M., Tsiatsos, T. (eds) Interactive Mobile Communication Technologies and Learning. IMCL 2017. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 725. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-75175-7_4
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