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Learning Analytics Case Study in Blended Learning Scenarios

In this paper we present a case study that provides a learning analytics tool to 53 course rooms on the learning platform in a higher education institution in Germany. The case study objective was to observe in which ways the teaching staff would use the learning analytics module while performing other teaching activities within the course room on the learning platform. We collected raw data from three different sources to examine the hypothesis of the case study in a quasi-experimental setting. The analyzed results showed that over the course of the study, in 40 courses the teaching staff used the learning analytics module at least on one occasion; in 25 courses the teaching stuff used the learning analytics module more than five times; and in 36 courses, the teaching staff has used the learning analytics module on multiple occasions within the same session while conducting teaching activities on the learning platform. As part of the data collection strategy for the case study, we conducted a two-part anonymous survey to collect qualitative feedback about the features and the user interface of the analytics prototype. The results of the survey revealed that the teaching staff used the analytics prototype mainly to observe the learning resources in their respective courses and be aware about the student behavior in their courses on the learning platform. Overall, we concluded that Learning Analytics should be an integral part of the provisioned e-learning services in higher educational institutions; the place for delivering Learning Analytics is the virtual course rooms on the learning platform; and that the teaching staff (if provided) would use it on regular basis in short while doing their day-to-day teaching activities on the learning platform.