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76 7 Understanding Students’ Online Behavior While They Search on the Internet:...
capturing software like Camtasia and Abode Connect (Bortoluzzi and Marenzi
2017) to record students’ learning activities, but since these recordings have to be
analyzed manually, the number of subjects is limited by the number of evaluators.
This approach can also be considered more obtrusive than server-side logging.
One way to address this problem is to create a tracking system that allows
teachers to collect log data on the students’ searching activity. This recipe is
supported by a computerized system, LearnWeb, a learning platform that contains
a glossary tool as well as a tracking system that are specifically created to support
teachers who teach interpretation, and their students with regard to terminology. It
takes advantage of data logs and learning dashboards to guide and support students’
autonomous terminology work, inform the teacher of the students’ activities and
commitment to the task, and help the teacher to identify students in need of
personalized remedial feedback. This recipe introduces the LearnWeb collaborative
environment and its integrated tracking system in the Preparation section. The
Serving section explains how the teacher can take advantage of the dashboard
visualizations to monitor students’ activities and identify cases of low commitment
to or misunderstanding of the task so they can provide individual support to the
students who need it.
Preparation time: 1h
7.2 Ingredients
This recipe offers you a full collaborative learning environment that can be shared
with your students, as well as integrated learning analytics tools with which you can
monitor their activities. The basic ingredients are:
• LearnWeb platform. 1
– Described in Sect. 7.3.1, LearnWeb is freely available online and ready to use,
including all functionalities described below.
– Glossary (Sect. 7.3.2)
– Proxy (Sect. 7.3.3)
– Tracker (Sect. 7.3.4)
– Learning analytics dashboard (Sect. 7.3.5)
• Access to the LearnWeb platform. Request a Registration Wizard to create an
account personalized to your environment and customized for your class (Sect.
7.3.1).
• Your students’ consent to use their data.
1 http://www.learning-analytics-toolbox.org/tools/—LearnWeb