Preliminary Requirements Analysis towards an Integrated Learning Analytics System

Abstract

An integration of various information and processes for learning analytics into a united framework is the key to the development of an open and extensible learning analytics system. Recently, we have taken a step towards developing such a framework by starting to build a reference software architecture which in turn will allow us to identify the structure and the workflow of learning analytics systems. Our final goal is to develop an explicit specification of the learning analytics architecture as the international standard so that open and extensible learning analytics systems can be built for worldwide interoperability. In this paper, we present the result of our preliminary requirement analysis towards such an open and interoperable learning analytics system. The analysis focuses mainly on the system aspects of existing well-known frameworks such as IMS Global learning analytics platform.