Learning Analytics

Applaydu is a popular app used by children all over the world. Every time a child plays with Applaydu it has the potential to provide us with some important data which can be revealing in terms of their engagement but also their learning. We have been working very closely with our colleagues at Gameloft to be able to use the ‘big app’ data that is collected from Applaydu and to analyse these in key ways that can signal specific aspects of children’s learning.

This is a burgeoning but increasingly important area of work and something that thus far has been under-researched. We are really excited about the opportunity to work with Gameloft in analysing the learning analytics and its potential to reveal important elements of children’s learning through Applaydu. 

Summary

The learning analytics research stream supports all our other research streams by using various inferential data analysis tools. Additionally, learning analytics focuses on data analysis of in-app usage linked with performance in games co-created with Gameloft (the app developers) and the survey information provided by parents/carers about their children (the users of the app). We are currently working on ways to make this link possible from both legal and technical points of view and are exploring analysis tools from the fields of data mining and learning analytics.