Educational-Data-Mining

I’m making a list of free / inexpensive tools for gathering data in open education contexts. These are tools that I can install on the wikis, blogs, and other sites I maintain where I curate and structure content for my students. Unfortunately, my list is rather short… What tools are you using to gather data from your online courses that I’m missing? Google Analytics Userfly Tynt For example, is there something you use to track which outgoing links people are clicking on? A tool you use to associate repeat visits and activity with the same individual (anonymously)? What kind of data are you collecting from your OER? How are you using it to improve your students’ experience? To improve your teaching? Are they plugins for Wordpress or Mediawiki or some other platform? Are they “one line embeds” like the tools listed above? What tools do we need the most that don’t exist yet? ...

George’s recent post about data visualization makes me realize I need to get around to sharing some of the work we’re doing here. My main research group at BYU is spending most of its time these days on educational data mining and applying / developing visualization techniques (including “dashboards”). We’ve taken to calling the coupling of openness with real data the “peanut butter cup” model, because openness and data really are two great tastes that taste great together. More on peanut butter cups in an upcoming post. ...