Learning analytics dashboards 
Seminar Opportunities and Challenges of Learning with Technologies: Evidence-based Education 
Brussels, 12 November 2014 
Katrien Verbert 
HCI research group – KU Leuven 
@katrien_v
Human-Computer Interaction 
Awareness  sense-making 
Erik Duval 
Joris Klerkx 
Katrien Verbert 
Computer Graphics 
Phil Dutré 
Language Intelligence  
Information Retrieval 
Sien Moens 
“Flexible Interaction between people and information” 
http://hci.cs.kuleuven.be/
Sabermetrics 
objective evidence 
measure in-game activity
Learning analytics 
“Collecting traces that learners leave behind and 
using those traces to improve learning.” 
Duval, E.,  Verbert, K. (2012). Learning analytics. E-Learning and Education, 1(8).
Learning analytics
Learning analytics
Learning analytics
LEARNING DASHBOARDS
Student Activity Meter (SAM) 
Govaerts, S., Verbert, K., Duval, E.,  Pardo, A. (2012, May). The student activity meter for awareness and 
self-reflection. In CHI'12 Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems (pp. 869-884). ACM.
ariadne.cs.kuleuven.be/LARAe/ 
LARAe 
ARTEL 2014 . Graz, Austria
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Derick Leony, Pedro J. Munoz-Merino, Carlos Delgado Kloos, Katrien Verbert. Evaluating Affectvis, a learning dashboard for 
emotions in projects. Submitted to Computers  Education, Nov. 2014.
Research questions 
• RQ1: What are relevant user actions? 
• RQ2: How can data on relevant actions be captured? 
• RQ3: How is awareness  self-reflection enabled for different 
kinds of users through appropriate devices? 
• RQ4: How can learning analytics dashboard applications be 
evaluated? How can the impact of these visualizations on user 
behavior be measured?
RQ2: How can data on 
relevant actions be captured?
tracking traces 
www.role-project.eu
https://www.rescuetime.com/ 
Software 
sensors
Self-reporting
RQ3: How is awareness  self-reflection 
enabled for different kinds of users 
through appropriate devices?
http://www.engadget.com/2013/01/09/kno-launches-kno-me-interactive-textbook-metrics-lets-you-stu/
Bachour, K., Kaplan, F.,  Dillenbourg, P. (2010). An interactive table for supporting participation balance in 
face-to-face collaborative learning. Learning Technologies, IEEE Transactions on, 3(3), 203-213.
http://gigaom.com/2013/06/19/new-augmented-reality-glasses-let-teachers-know-when-their-students-are-falling-behind/ 
T. Zarraonandia, I. Aedo, P. Dıaz, and A. Montero. An augmented lecture feedback system to support learner 
and teacher communication. British Journal of Educational Technology, 44(4):616–628, 2013.
RQ4: How can learning 
analytics dashboard 
applications be evaluated?
Verbert, K., Duval, E., Klerkx, J., Govaerts, S.,  Santos, J. L. (2013). Learning analytics 
dashboard applications. American Behavioral Scientist
demographics 
tool deployed 
tracking tools 
data tracked 
#cgiar 
19 teachers 
SAM 
LMS 
resource use, 
communication, time 
spent 
#lak11 
12 participants 
SAM 
LMS 
resource use, 
communication, time 
spent 
#uc3m 
11 teachers 
SAM 
Virtual machine 
resource use, 
programming errors, 
debugging, time spent; 
artefacts produced 
#thesis11 
13 students 
Step-Up! 
Twitter, Tinyarm, blogs 
resource use, artefacts 
produced 
#thesis11- 
sup 
5 teachers 
Step-Up! 
Twitter, Tinyarm, blogs 
resource use, artefacts 
produced 
#peno3 
10 students 
Step-Up! 
Toggl 
Time spent, resource and 
application use 
#chikul 
30 students 
Step-Up! 
Toggl, twitter, blogs 
twitter, blogs, time spent, 
resource use
Verbert, K., Govaerts, S., Duval, E., Santos, J. L., Van Assche, F., Parra, G.,  Klerkx, J. (2013). Learning 
dashboards: an overview and future research opportunities. Personal and Ubiquitous Computing, 1-16.
http://lak15.solaresearch.org/
Thank you! 
Questions? 
katrien.verbert@cs.kuleuven.be 
twitter: @katrien_v

Learning analytics dashboards