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T1 Monitoring Students at the University: Design and Application of a Moodle Plugin
A1 Sáiz Manzanares, María Consuelo
A1 Marticorena Sánchez, Raúl
A1 García Osorio, César
K1 Student guidance
K1 Personalized learning
K1 Machine Learning
K1 Moodle
K1 Plugin
K1 Enseñanza superior
K1 Education, Higher
K1 Psicología
K1 Psychology
K1 Informática
K1 Computer science
AB 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.
PB MDPI
SN 2076-3417
YR 2021
FD 2021-05
LK http://hdl.handle.net/10259/6244
UL http://hdl.handle.net/10259/6244
LA eng
NO Consejería de Educación de la Junta de Castilla y León (Spain) (Department of Education of the Junta de Castilla y León), grant number BU032G19, and grants from the University of Burgos for the dissemination and the improvement of teaching innovation experiences of the Vice-Rectorate of Teaching and Research Staff, the Vice-Rectorate for Research and Knowledge Transfer, 2020, and the Departamento de Ciencias de la Salud the University of Burgos (Spain).
DS Repositorio Institucional de la Universidad de Burgos
RD 23-nov-2024