Lea’s Box: A Competency-oriented Approach to Facilitate Learning Analytics in School Settings

Abstract

Learning Analytics is a key term of recent research and development in the educational sector. However, the uptake of such techniques is oftentimes limited to online courses and it is sparsely used in schools. The reason is that school-based teaching and learning is still an ‘analogue’ and personal process that is not producing the digital data that are necessary to conduct in-depth learning analytics. The Lea’s Box project is addressing this problem by supporting teachers in their daily practice to collect data as easy and complete as possible to have at least the ‘little data’ required to make their teaching more individual and more formative. In addition, the project attempts to develop competence-oriented techniques for learning analytics on the basis of solid theories that have been developed in the context of intelligent tutorial systems. In this paper we present a summary about the developments and experiences with the tools and techniques in schools.