Progressing Towards Open Textbooks Learning Analytics System

Prasad, Deepak and Totaram, Rajneel and Usagawa, Tsuyoshi (2016) Progressing Towards Open Textbooks Learning Analytics System. Journal of Perspectives in Applied Academic Practice, 4 (3). pp. 56-60. ISSN 2051-9788

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Abstract

Textbook prices have been soaring at an unprecedented pace for the last four decades with no signs that this trend will end anytime soon. Several studies have suggested that a solution to this problem comes in the form of open textbooks. As a result, the growth of open textbooks is rapid and sustained. However, though the advent of open textbooks is encouraging, whether,
how, and to what extent students are using their open textbooks remains unclear. Learning analytics for open textbooks can provide answers to these questions plus many others, and thereby offers the potential for improving planning, development, monitoring, evaluation and revision of open textbooks.

Learning analytics applied to open textbooks has received little attention to date. This on the horizon paper presents and describes developmental work of a method to collect data produced as a result of students’ online and offline interactions with their open textbooks, the first part of a three-step process of learning analytics (the remaining two being data processing and reporting functionalities). The paper concludes with a presentation of future work, in line with the nature of this paper, which is work-in-progress towards developing learning analytics system for open textbooks.

Item Type:	Journal Article
Subjects:	L Education > L Education (General) L Education > LB Theory and practice of education > LB2300 Higher Education
Divisions:	Centre for Flexible Learning (CFL)
Depositing User:	Dr Deepak Prasad
Date Deposited:	29 Mar 2017 02:35
Last Modified:	05 Jan 2018 02:09
URI:	https://repository.usp.ac.fj/id/eprint/9683

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