2024-03-29T01:53:50Zhttps://riubu.ubu.es/oai/requestoai:riubu.ubu.es:10259/62442022-11-30T13:19:36Zcom_10259_4219com_10259_5086com_10259_2604com_10259_5841col_10259_4220col_10259_5842
Monitoring Students at the University: Design and Application of a Moodle Plugin
Sáiz Manzanares, María Consuelo
Marticorena Sánchez, Raúl
García Osorio, César
Student guidance
Personalized learning
Machine Learning
Moodle
Plugin
Early detection of at-risk students is essential, especially in the university environment. Moreover, personalized learning has been shown to increase motivation and lower student dropout rates. At present, the average dropout rates among students following courses leading to the award of Spanish university degrees are around 18% and 42.8% for presential teaching and online courses, respectively. The objectives of this study are: (1) to design and to implement a Modular Object-Oriented Dynamic Learning Environment (Moodle) plugin, “eOrientation”, for the early detection of at-risk students; (2) to test the effectiveness of the “eOrientation” plugin on university students. We worked with 279 third-year students following health sciences degrees. A process for extracting information records was also implemented. In addition, a learning analytics module was developed, through which both supervised and unsupervised Machine Learning techniques can be applied. All these measures facilitated the personalized monitoring of the students and the easier detection of students at academic risk. The use of this tool could be of great importance to teachers and university governing teams, as it can assist the early detection of students at academic risk. Future studies will be aimed at testing the plugin using the Moodle environment on degree courses at other universities.
2021-11-29T08:56:35Z
2021-11-29T08:56:35Z
2021-05
info:eu-repo/semantics/article
2076-3417
http://hdl.handle.net/10259/6244
10.3390/app10103469
eng
Applied Sciences. 2020, V. 10, n. 10, 3469
https://doi.org/10.3390/app10103469
info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/Junta de Castilla y León//BU032G19//E-orientación en moodle: detección y seguimiento del alumno en riesgo en la universidad
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
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