Hands-On with Learning Analytics Tools
University of Duisburg-Essen, Didaktik IDEAL 2025
This interactive session on practical Learning Analytics is offered as part of the new certificate program Didaktik Ideal at the University of Duisburg-Essen.
The session will last three hours and the working language will be English.
We will use this webpage to share materials with participants before, during and after the session.
Summary:
This interactive workshop aims to introduce participants to practical tools and techniques used in learning analytics. Participants will explore real or simulated educational datasets and learn how to visualize student engagement, performance, and retention patterns using open-source tools such as Jupyter Notebooks with Python or R. The session emphasizes hands-on activities, including building dashboards and experimenting with basic predictive models. It’s designed for educators, instructional designers, or researchers who want to move from theory to practical application.
Key Outcomes:
- Understand different types of educational data
- Gain experience using analytics tools to explore and visualize learning data
- Create simple dashboards or predictive models for learner insights
Materials:
To be added soon
