学习仪表盘:大数据时代的新型学习支持工具

Learning Dashboard: A Novel Learning Support Tool in the Big Data Era

随着在线教育的蓬勃发展和教育大数据时代的来临,一种新型学习支持工具——学习仪表盘(Learning Dashboard)应运而生。学习仪表盘基于信息跟踪技术和镜像技术,对学习者的学习行为、习惯、情绪、兴趣等信息进行记录和追踪,通过分析与可视化、个性化的显示,为在线教育的学习者、教师、研究者、教育管理者等提供多层次的学习支持,帮助学习者实现自我认知、学习反思以及意义建构,促进学习新方法或模式的产生。目前,学习仪表盘发展快速,正逐渐从关注学习登录次数、学习时间和进度等浅层学习信息的辅助性学习工具,逐渐发展为集学习、分析、评价、反馈等多功能于一身的统领学习资源、支持学习过程的强大集成化系统。随着其功能和形式的不断创新与完备,学习仪表盘将在更多学习情境中得以应用,以更精妙的数据分析设计框架和更愉悦的使用体验为学习者提供更为高质高效的学习支持。

With the flourishing of online education and the advent of educational big data, a novel learning support tool, the learning dashboard, was developed. Learning dashboard is capable of recording and tracking the information of learners including learning behaviors, habits, feelings, interests, etc., on the basis of information tracking and mirroring technologies, and providing multi-level learning support to online learners, teachers, researchers and instructional administrators, so as to facilitate the learners＂ self-awareness, self-reflection, meaning construction, etc. and promote the innovation of learning methods or patterns. Learning dashboard is now evolving rapidly from a supplemental learning tool utilizing simple learning data such as log-in times, learning periods and learning progress, to a robust multi-functional integrated system with the functions of learning, analysis, evaluation and feedback. Along with its innovations in both functions and forms, learning dashboard will find more applications in more learning contexts and offer more efficient and qualitative learning support with a more elaborated data analysis algorithm and the more enjoyable experience to learners.