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46 5 Learning Analytics in a Primary School: Lea’s Box Recipe
allows educators to get new insights into the learning processes that occur in their
own classrooms. To overcome this shortcoming, all available data must be brought
together, aggregated, and linked to a suitable model of individual learning.
The European Lea’s Box project addresses such problems by offering a central
learning analytics platform that allows the various data sources to be linked and
grants teachers a number of valuable analyses and reports across all sources. In
addition, teachers receive easy-to-use notebook functions with which to enter
achievements, activities, or learning progress manually. With only a bit of effort to
set up a learning analytics solution, Lea’s Box offers the most comprehensive
approach and the deepest insights into the individual learning processes and learning
states.
Preparation Time: Preparation time depends on the size of your organization, the
number of courses, and the number of data sources. A simple scenario with a
single teacher, a group of 20 students, and a single course can be set up in about
an hour. Setting up a scenario for an entire school may take several hours.
5.2 Ingredients
• Account at Lea’s Box platform, which is freely available
• Digital data sources (learning management systems, learning apps, assessment
tools, manual records)
• A device with which to access the platform (computer, tablet)
• Network infrastructure, Internet access (not blocked by a firewall)
5.3 Preparation
Request an administrator account for your school or organization by clicking Lea’s
Box “View Product” button at http://www.learning-analytics-toolbox.org/tools/.
This leads you to the Lea’s Box website, where all contact information and procedures
can be found.
Prepare a list of the teachers in your organization who should use the system, a list
of students who should use the system, your courses, and a list of competencies
addressed in each course. If you have these data in an Excel spreadsheet or csv file,
you can automatically import the data into the Lea’s Box system. For details and
format specifications, refer to the manuals and guidelines on the Lea’s Box portal.
Prepare your digital data sources so these sources can send their data to Lea’s
Box’s central data store. This step may be tricky and require the help of your
organization’s technical support staff. With your administrator account, you will
receive a URI and ID numbers for your data sources. These data sources export their
data to the URI using a secret token as an identifier. This connection is established