Time: 09:30 AM
Location: CIC Ideation Studio
This workshop brings together system architects from multiple universities interested in the future of the OnTask architecture, and the Learning Analytics API (LA-API) architecture. Both are open source projects from nationally funded OLT projects, with the LA-API expanding the range of data sources that learning analytics services (such as OnTask) can reason about.
Workshop leads: Prof. Abelardo Pardo (Univ. S. Australia; OnTask Project Lead) and Dr Kirsty Kitto (UTS:CIC; LA-API).
- OnTask is building momentum with several institutions looking to mainstream it, following successful pilots (homepage/article).
- LA-API has emerged from the OLT-funded Beyond the LMS project using xAPI and other technologies to aggregate learner data from diverse sources, and provide ways to interrogate it for learning analytics purposes (homepage/CLA Toolkit)
Tune-in remotely via Zoom
Draft Program:
Mon 18 Feb AM — OnTask Architecture (CIC Ideation Studio)
9:30 Welcome
9:45 Current status of OnTask: Architecture, Versions, development cycle, adoption
10:15 Adoption models: current and future initiatives
10:45 Coffee break
11:15 Roadmap design. Next steps, future developments.
12:15 Summarising and TO DO list
12.30 Lunch
Mon 18 Feb PM — LA-API (CIC Ideation Studio)
1:30 Problem: getting data into OnTask
1:45 Demo: LA-API – OnTask (integrates data collection from Canvas, Slack, Twitter, Trello and GitHub)
2:00 Behind the scenes, xAPI, GraphQL and data interoperability
2:30 Design a dashboard/workflow and learning activity to support learning
4:00 Next steps: what would you like us to prioritise?
4.30 Close
Drinks/Dinner…