iLearn Insights – An application to facilitate data driven student interventions

Abstract: iLearn Insights allows teaching staff to easily visualise student activity in iLearn units. iLearn Insights provides a dashboard with visual representations of student data in relation to access patterns, forum activity and learning activity submission and grading. Academics can then use the email messaging function to provide timely and well informed interventions to students who may be struggling with their studies as well as the opportunity provide extra motivation to students who are doing well.

Presenter: Shamim Joarder has worked for various educational institutions since 2001. His eLearning journey began in 2009 working as an eLearning Project Manager at the University of Adelaide. Mr. Joarder currently works at Macquarie University, Sydney as the Learning Technologies System Analyst, where he has designed and developed an unique learning analytic application titled ‘iLearn insights’. He has also authored the book ‘Moodle eLearning Course Design: A Flexible Approach’. He is a 2019 ASCILITE Innovation Award Winner.

This session was moderated by David Porter (UOW).