Beyond Just Following Data: How Does Visualization Strategy Facilitate Learning Analytics Design?

Abstract

In this poster, we reviewed 38 articles on learning analytics research, focusing on the data visualization interface designs. After examining the original ideas their interface design, a new visualization strategy was proposed to categorize and characterize them premised on their principles and approaches in four types, namely, (1) directly-presented, (2) outcome-oriented, (3) process-oriented, and (4) theory-oriented. Then, how these types of the visualization strategy could help facilitate learning analytics design and make data interpretable by users was presented.