An architecture for extending the learning analytics support in the Khan Academy framework

  • Authors:
  • José A. Ruipérez-Valiente;Pedro J. Muñoz-Merino;Carlos Delgado Kloos

  • Affiliations:
  • Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Leganés (Madrid) Spain;Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Leganés (Madrid) Spain;Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Leganés (Madrid) Spain

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the First International Conference on Technological Ecosystem for Enhancing Multiculturality
  • Year:
  • 2013

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Abstract

The Khan Academy platform enables powerful on-line courses in which students can watch videos, solve exercises or earn badges. This platform provides an advanced learning analytics module with useful visualizations for teachers and students. Nevertheless, this learning analytics support can be improved with recommendations and new useful higher level visualizations in order to try to improve the learning process. In this paper, we describe our architecture for processing data from the Khan Academy platform in order to show new higher level learning visualizations and recommendations. The different involved elements of the architecture are presented and the different decisions are justified. In addition, we explain some initial examples of new useful visualizations and recommendations for teachers and students as part of our extension of the learning analytics module for the Khan Academy platform. These examples use data from an undergraduate Physics course developed at Universidad Carlos III de Madrid with more than 100 students using the Khan Academy system.