Analytics on Moodle Data Using R Package for Enhanced Learning Management

摘要

There are a lot of learning analytics tools being developed which is integrated into the Moodle Course Management System for analysing the student's performance and behaviour for enhanced learning management. But, most of these just concentrate on one technique such as data mining or statistical analysis or visualization. Also, they do not explore the capabilities of upcoming open source data analytics tool, the R Package which can perform complete data analytics applying the statistical techniques, data mining techniques and can produce effective visualization of the results. Hence, in this paper we are attempting to explore the data analytics capabilities of R Package and apply the same on a set of Moodle data which is captured on the learning behaviour of computer science students of a higher education institute. This analytics package can be integrated with Moodle, so that it can fetch the log files produced from Moodle continuously and produce the results of learning trends of the students.