Hi Miles,
thank you for your message. intersting topic, isnt it?
it is conencted to quality in online learning.
do you have a doc with your observations? strangely
enough I found the same result in a Greek teachers'
study:: profiles are very important. it was then I
decided to put my pic on my business card.
I dont know why and how but profiles work. it might be
connected to trust:: it is not a dog writing this
email.
regards,
niki
--- Miles Berry <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> I did some work analysing our Moodle log files and
> correlating against
> test results, allowing for prior attainment. At a
> very crude level, the
> analysis suggested that those who took a
> longer-term, more strategic
> approach to the VLE (looking back over old forum
> posts, looking at
> old-quizzes, and curiously, updating their profile)
> got more benefit
> from the thing than those who only kept up with the
> daily homeworks or
> current postings. My population was not large, but
> it was an interesting
> proof of concept for data-mining in a school. You
> might like to check
> out the whole data mining ball park to see if
> there's anything to be
> learnt from the finance companies and supermarkets.
> Loyalty cards for
> classes... there's an idea... ;-)
>
> I'd have liked to have some duration figures readily
> available, although
> with a bit of effort these could be calculated for
> most activity, so it
> would have been nice to have, eg
> - user X visited resource Y at 10:53 on 10/02/2006,
> and stayed there for
> 15 minutes
> for example, as the time spent on particular
> activities might have been
> an important factor.
> It might also be worth including details of /where/
> they visited from,
> perhaps in a more meaningful format than IP address
> - in my context,
> school/home/other would have been interesting, but I
> suspect home can
> only be isolated with static IP addresses at the far
> end.
> At some point one would want to factor in
> courses/groups etc rather than
> just student (or resource) ids, but this is perhaps
> best done outside of
> the logging. However, if a resource occurs in more
> than one course, then
> that might matter.
>
> Have a glance at Christian Milani's GISMO, which
> addresses some of these
> ideas from a different perspective -
>
http://www.istituti.usilu.net/mazzar/Web/Web_area/Pubblicazioni/TEL04/TEL04.pdf
> , although I'm not sure what the present state of
> his project is.
>
> Interesting project. Good luck with it.
>
> Miles Berry
> Deputy Head
> St Ives School, Haslemere
> www.stiveshaslemere.com
>
> Adam Marshall wrote:
> > We here at Oxfords Uni are just starting a JISC
> project (TRECX) which will
> > deal with tracking activity within e-learning
> tools (such as VLE's, Forums,
> > Chat rooms, PDP systems, wikis, assessment
> systems, repositories) and are
> > very interested to know what sort of information
> tutors (or sysadmins) would
> > like to see about their students and / or
> resources (Data Prot issues
> > aside!).
> >
> > The sort of things we are talking about are
> >
> > - user X visited resource Y at 10:53 on
> 10/02/2006
> > - user X posted message on Forum Y at ........
> > - user X entered chat room Y at .....
> > - user X posted a message in chat room Y at
> ......
> > - user X read message posted by user Z in forum Y
> at ......
> > - resource A was updated at ......
> > - resource A became available at ........
> > - resource A was deleted at .......
> > - user X created a new PDR (id = 25) at ........
> > - user X added to wiki page Y at .......
> > - user X took assessment Y at .........
> >
> > And so on.
> >
> > We would *really* appreciate any comments /
> requirements etc for such a
> > system. Nothing fancy, a couple of sentences to
> describe the scenario would
> > be fine. We will 'publish' any postings in our
> wiki so please let us know if
> > you don't want your text used or if you would
> rather the text did not have
> > your name next to it!
> >
> > The resultant software will be fully open source
> and available to all - if
> > anybody else wants to get involved then let us
> know.
> >
> > We will be setting up a project website and wiki
> over the next week and I'll
> > try to remember to post the URLs to this list lest
> anybody wants a snoop.
> >
> > adam
> >
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