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Big Data in Education

Big Data in Education. Rachel Hogue. Overview. Big Data and Education Communities Why Collect Educational Data? Learning Theories eLearning What Data Can We Collect? Examples of eLearning Companies and their Use of Big Data Data Analysis Existing implementations using educational data

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Big Data in Education

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  1. Big Data in Education Rachel Hogue

  2. Overview • Big Data and Education Communities • Why Collect Educational Data? • Learning Theories • eLearning • What Data Can We Collect? • Examples of eLearning Companies and their Use of Big Data • Data Analysis • Existing implementations using educational data • Methods that work well for educational data • MOOCdb • Privacy concerns

  3. Communities • International Educational Data Mining Society • Founded July 2011 • EDM workshop in 2005 (at Association for Advancement of Artificial Intelligence) • EDM conference in 2008 • Journal of Educational Data Mining (JEDM) since 2009 • Society for Learning Analytics Research • First conference: Learning Analytics and Knowledge (LAK) 2011 • Journal of Learning Analytics, founded 2012

  4. Why Collect Educational Data?

  5. Why Collect Educational Data? • Personalize education • Better assessment of learners • Multiple dimensions: social, cognitive, emotional, meta-cognitive • Multiple levels: individual, group, institutional levels • To promote new scientific discoveries and to advance learning sciences • Many theories; little hard data to support them • Opportunity to discover new learning patterns

  6. Why Collect Educational Data? “Not only can you look at unique learning trajectories of individuals, but the sophistication of the models of learning goes up enormously.” Arthur Graesser, Editor, Journal of Educational Psychology

  7. A Look Backwards • Collecting educational data was highly resource-intensive and difficult to scale • Much of the data that was easily collectible was purely summative in nature • Getting data on learning processes and learner behaviors, in field settings, required methods like • Quantitative field observations • Video recordings • Think-Aloud studies • None of which scale easily

  8. Learning Types

  9. Learning Types • Visual (spatial) • Auditory • Kinesthetic / haptic

  10. Learning Theories • Problem-Based Learning • Anchored Instruction • Cognitive Apprenticeship • Situated Learning

  11. eLearning

  12. eLearning • WBI – Web Based Instruction • Learning technology • Networking and computing technologies are used to improve educational practices

  13. eLearning • WBI – Web Based Instruction • Learning technology • Networking and computing technologies are used to improve educational practices MOOC Massive Online Open Course

  14. eLearning

  15. What Data Can We Collect?

  16. What Data Can We Collect? • Administrative data - who are you? • Address, name, birth date • Content data – inferred properties about material • Difficulty, subject • Longitudinal data - data from a long period of time • Grades • Standardized testing results • Time on task • Attendance • Click patterns • How long a student holds a mouse pointer over a particular answer

  17. What Data is Available Already? • PSLC DataShop • a central repository to secure and store research data • a set of analysis and reporting tools • >250,000 hours of students using educational software • >30 million student actions, responses & annotations • Actions: entering an equation, manipulating a vector, typing a phrase, requesting help • Responses: error feedback, strategic hints • Annotations: correctness, time, skill/concept • http://pslcdatashop.org/about/

  18. Online Education Formats • Video • Online modules • Written documents • Audio files • Instructions for activity or task

  19. CourseSmart • Embeds technology directly into digital textbooks • Provides an “engagement index score”, which measures how much students are interacting with their eTextbooks (viewing pages, highlighting, writing notes, etc.). • Researchers have found that that the engagement index score helps instructors to accurately predict student outcomes more than traditional measurement methods, such as class participation.

  20. duoLingo • Site and smartphone app to help people learn foreign languages • Luis von Ahn • Professor at Carnegie Mellon • CAPTCHA and reCAPTCHA • “twofer”

  21. Data from duoLingo • How long does it take someone to become proficient in a certain aspect of a language? • How much practice is optimal? • What is the consequence of missing a few days? • There are theories about learning languages, such as the idea that adjectives should be taught before adverbs, but previously, there was little hard data to support these theories

  22. Conclusions from duoLingo Data • The best way to teach a language depends on the students’ native tongue and the language they’re trying to acquire • Example: Spanish -> English • “it” tends to confuse and create anxiety for Spanish speakers, since the word doesn’t easily translate into their language • Women do better at sports terms • Men do better at cooking and food terms • In Italy, women as a group learn English better than men

  23. Learning Analytics Implementations • Still very few • Knewton : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LldxxVRj4FU • Signals project at Purdue University: http://www.educause.edu/ero/article/signals-applying-academic-analytics • Ellucian Degree Works, “a comprehensive academic advising, transfer articulation, and degree audit solution that aligns students, advisors, and institutions to a common goal: helping students graduate on time.” • Blackboard Analytics - http://www.blackboard.com/Platforms/Analytics/Overview.aspx

  24. Analysis Methods • Prediction • Structure Discovery • Relationship Mining

  25. Prediction • Develop a model which can infer a single aspect of the data (predicted variable) from some combination of other aspects of the data (predictor variables) • Which students are off-task? • Which students will fail the class?

  26. Structure Discovery • Find structure and patterns in the data that emerge “naturally” • No specific target or predictor variable

  27. Relationship Mining • Discover relationships between variables in a data set with many variables • Correlation or causation

  28. MOOCdb • Collaborative, online learning research

  29. Different Formats of Data

  30. Multiple Platforms and Data Control • EdX and Coursera • Controlled by MIT and Stanford, separate entities

  31. Data model to organize raw data streams • Unifies different platforms

  32. MOOCdb • Each class: • Student Information Tables • Observations Tables • Submissions Tables • Collaboration Tables • Feedback Tables

  33. Benefits of MOOCdb • Public, shared data model; avoid redundant work • Foster analytic consistency • Engage more people

  34. MOOCviz

  35. MOOCviz Resource use compared by country

  36. Privacy Concerns • Hardcopy records were phased out in favor of district-based hard drive storage some time ago, but the advent of cloud computing has seen a trend toward the creation of third-party data silos (or clouds). • Teachers and parents are concerned about privacy breaches by hackers and marketers • InBloom • Gates-funded nonprofit that houses student data in the cloud • Closed its doors after parental protest

  37. Privacy Concerns • This past May, the Obama administration released an 85-page report on big data and its use in the US among consumers and businesses "Big data and other technological innovations, including new online course platforms that provide students real time feedback, promise to transform education by personalizing learning. At the same time, the federal government must ensure educational data linked to individual students gathered in school is used for educational purposes, and protect students against their data being shared or used inappropriately."

  38. History of Educational Big Data Policies

  39. Questions or Comments? Email me at rachel.hogue@tufts.edu with any questions. https://www.coursera.org/course/bigdata-edu

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