Designing translucent learning analytics with teachers: an elicitation process. Issue 6 (1st July 2022)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Martinez-Maldonado, Roberto; Elliott, Doug; Axisa, Carmen; Power, Tamara; Echeverria, Vanessa; Buckingham Shum, Simon
• Is Part Of: Interactive learning environments. Volume 30:Issue 6(2022)
• Page Start: 1077
• Page End: 1091
• Publication Date: 2022-07-01
• Subjects: Multimodal -- teamwork -- co-design -- human-centred analytics -- CSCL -- orchestration; Educational technology -- United States -- Periodicals; 371.33
• DOI: 10.1080/10494820.2019.1710541
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1049-4820

Abstract

ABSTRACT: Learning Analytics (LA) systems can offer new insights into learners' behaviours through analysis of multiple data streams. There remains however a dearth of research about how LA interfaces can enable effective communication of educationally meaningful insights to teachers and learners. This highlights the need for a participatory, horizontal co-design process for LA systems. Inspired by the notion of translucence, this paper presents LAT-EP (Learning Analytics Translucence Elicitation Process), a five-step process to design for the effective use of translucent LA systems. LAT-EP was operationalised in an authentic multimodal learning analytics (MMLA) study in the context of teamwork in clinical simulation. Results of this process are illustrated through a series of visual proxies co-designed with teachers, each presenting traces of social, physical, affective and epistemic evidence captured while teams of student nurses practised clinical skills in a simulated hospital setting.