My ideal learning dashboard

For BADE (Becoming a dynamic educator)
 

I teach in a Spanish university. One of my subjects is Fundamentals of Computer Technology, it is a basic training six credits course taught in the first year of the Grades on Computer Science, Computer Engineering and Information Systems. My students are between 20 and 25 years old and they are used to technological applications.

The fundamental goal of the course is to understand the basic level operation of a computer and the competences that the students need acquire are: Explain the instruction execution cycle. Operate logically and arithmetically with binary numbers. Analyze and design combinational logic networks. Analyze the behavior of synchronous and asynchronous machines. Understand the concept of memory hierarchy and memory operation. Define the performance of computers and explain what factors contribute to it.

I try to develop a Personal learning Environment (PLE) where students are provided with several interactive widgets, videos and activities embedded in these videos, offering students the opportunity to study wherever and whenever they want, at their own pace.

The widgets have been developed on Javascript. They consist on interactive labs that challenge students' knowledge in a practical way.

I also use videos that I flip using Ted-ED, this way I can include questions to track the students participation and to evaluate their results.

I am very interested in learning analytics so I use all the data that I track from interactive widgets, and activities embedded in videos to evaluate my students.

The goal is to know how learning takes place in the classroom, but mainly outside. I want to analyze what happens in online activities, especially in some non-formal activities.

I collect and evaluate the records of students’ interaction looking for correlations between activities and learning outcomes. I measure the frequency with student access to online materials in order to explore factors related to active participation; I compare the results of assessments from activities conducted online and in-class.

Nowadays I’m investigating Google Apps possibilities (google drive, gmail, google docs, google calendar…) and my target is create useful and personalized web services and to integrate everything as a personal system of learning.

My ideal learning Dashboard contains the applications that I use currently and others that I would like to include, everything in the same interface perfectly integrated, easy to use for students, that encourages them to participate actively in the learning process, and at the same time easy to manage and that gives useful information about how the learning process is developed, providing the necessary support to show the level of student knowledge and engagement and that allows assess students and take decisions to optimize learning.

Next I include the graphic scheme that I have done with the concept map Vue. (click to maximize)