{"id":8838,"date":"2018-09-14T13:29:00","date_gmt":"2018-07-10T17:29:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/?p=8838"},"modified":"2024-07-08T06:05:46","modified_gmt":"2024-07-08T10:05:46","slug":"hackathon-learning-analytics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/2018\/09\/14\/hackathon-learning-analytics\/","title":{"rendered":"U-M hosts hackathon to lead development of next gen learning analytics platform"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><div id=\"metaslider-id-9977\" style=\"max-width: 800px; margin: 0 auto;\" class=\"ml-slider-3-109-0 metaslider metaslider-flex metaslider-9977 ml-slider has-dots-nav ms-theme-default\" role=\"region\" aria-label=\"UDP Hackathon 2018\" data-height=\"600\" data-width=\"800\">\n    <div id=\"metaslider_container_9977\">\n        <div id=\"metaslider_9977\" class=\"flexslider\">\n            <ul class='slides'>\n                <li style=\"display: block; width: 100%;\" class=\"slide-9986 ms-image \" aria-roledescription=\"slide\" data-date=\"2018-09-17 10:40:24\" data-filename=\"UDPHackathon_MichITNews-1-e1537571343984.jpg\" data-slide-type=\"image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" src=\"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/UDPHackathon_MichITNews-1-e1537571343984.jpg\" class=\"slider-9977 slide-9986 msDefaultImage\" alt=\"&quot; &quot;\" rel=\"\" title=\"UDPHackathon_MichITNews - 1\" style=\"margin-top: 4.1666666666667%\" \/><div class=\"caption-wrap\"><div class=\"caption\">Zhen Qian (center), from ITS Teaching and Learning, participated in a hack team consisting of members from peer institutions to use the new UDP infrastructure to develop new learning tools. (Photo: Joel Iverson, ITS Communications)<\/div><\/div><\/li>\n                <li style=\"display: none; width: 100%;\" class=\"slide-10002 ms-image \" aria-roledescription=\"slide\" data-date=\"2018-09-17 13:20:06\" data-filename=\"UDPHackathon_MichITNews-5a-e1537571396311.jpg\" data-slide-type=\"image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" src=\"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/UDPHackathon_MichITNews-5a-e1537571396311.jpg\" class=\"slider-9977 slide-10002 msDefaultImage\" alt=\"&quot; &quot;\" rel=\"\" title=\"UDPHackathon_MichITNews - 5a\" style=\"margin: 0 auto; width: 100%\" \/><div class=\"caption-wrap\"><div class=\"caption\">Participants from eight peer institutions from the Unizin consortium, as well as developers from Google, participated in a hackathon using the newly developed Unizin Data Platform (UDP) for the first time.\n(Photo: John Johnston, ITS Teaching &amp; Learning)<\/div><\/div><\/li>\n                <li style=\"display: none; width: 100%;\" class=\"slide-9988 ms-image \" aria-roledescription=\"slide\" data-date=\"2018-09-17 10:40:24\" data-filename=\"UDPHackathon_MichITNews-3-e1537571313215.jpg\" data-slide-type=\"image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" src=\"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/UDPHackathon_MichITNews-3-e1537571313215.jpg\" class=\"slider-9977 slide-9988 msDefaultImage\" alt=\"&quot; &quot;\" rel=\"\" title=\"UDPHackathon_MichITNews - 3\" style=\"margin-top: 4.1666666666667%\" \/><div class=\"caption-wrap\"><div class=\"caption\">A representational data set (free of identifying information) within the Unizin Data Platform (UDP) was used to explore several contemporary teaching and learning challenges. \n(Photo: Joel Iverson, ITS Communications)<\/div><\/div><\/li>\n                <li style=\"display: none; width: 100%;\" class=\"slide-9989 ms-image \" aria-roledescription=\"slide\" data-date=\"2018-09-17 10:40:24\" data-filename=\"UDPHackathon_MichITNews-4-e1537571294321.jpg\" data-slide-type=\"image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" src=\"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/UDPHackathon_MichITNews-4-e1537571294321.jpg\" class=\"slider-9977 slide-9989 msDefaultImage\" alt=\"&quot; &quot;\" rel=\"\" title=\"UDPHackathon_MichITNews - 4\" style=\"margin-top: 4.1666666666667%\" \/><div class=\"caption-wrap\"><div class=\"caption\">U-M School of Information professor and hackathon participant Charles Severance (second from the right) referred to the UPD saying, \u201cFinally, we've got a place were we can store all the data and get it back out.\u201d\n(Photo: Joel Iverson, ITS Communications)<\/div><\/div><\/li>\n                <li style=\"display: none; width: 100%;\" class=\"slide-9990 ms-image \" aria-roledescription=\"slide\" data-date=\"2018-09-17 10:40:24\" data-filename=\"UDPHackathon_MichITNews-8-e1537571279842.jpg\" data-slide-type=\"image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" src=\"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/UDPHackathon_MichITNews-8-e1537571279842.jpg\" class=\"slider-9977 slide-9990 msDefaultImage\" alt=\"&quot; &quot;\" rel=\"\" title=\"UDPHackathon_MichITNews - 8\" style=\"margin-top: 4.1666666666667%\" \/><div class=\"caption-wrap\"><div class=\"caption\">ITS Teaching and Learning\u2019s IT program manager, Anthony Whyte, discusses a programming solution with Edward Doan, customer engineer, with Google for Education during the closing UDP hackathon report out session.\n(Photo: Joel Iverson, ITS Communications)<\/div><\/div><\/li>\n                <li style=\"display: none; width: 100%;\" class=\"slide-9991 ms-image \" aria-roledescription=\"slide\" data-date=\"2018-09-17 10:40:24\" data-filename=\"UDPHackathon_MichITNews-9-e1537571257831.jpg\" data-slide-type=\"image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" src=\"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/UDPHackathon_MichITNews-9-e1537571257831.jpg\" class=\"slider-9977 slide-9991 msDefaultImage\" alt=\"&quot; &quot;\" rel=\"\" title=\"UDPHackathon_MichITNews - 9\" style=\"margin-top: 4.1666666666667%\" \/><div class=\"caption-wrap\"><div class=\"caption\">Heather Rypkema, CRLT Instructional Consultant for Analytics and Assessment, Foundational Course Initiative, reports out on how she was able to track and visualize user actions within a Google Docs folder.\n(Photo: Joel Iverson, ITS Communications)<\/div><\/div><\/li>\n                <li style=\"display: none; width: 100%;\" class=\"slide-9992 ms-image \" aria-roledescription=\"slide\" data-date=\"2018-09-17 10:40:24\" data-filename=\"UDPHackathon_MichITNews-12-e1537571237237.jpg\" data-slide-type=\"image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" src=\"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/UDPHackathon_MichITNews-12-e1537571237237.jpg\" class=\"slider-9977 slide-9992 msDefaultImage\" alt=\"&quot; &quot;\" rel=\"\" title=\"UDPHackathon_MichITNews - 12\" style=\"margin-top: 4.1666666666667%\" \/><div class=\"caption-wrap\"><div class=\"caption\">Representatives from two other Unizin consortium schools, Andrew McDonald, from the University of Florida, and Ross Miller, from the University of Iowa, shared their team\u2019s work on expanding the UDP to support predictive analytics.\n(Photo: Joel Iverson, ITS Communications)<\/div><\/div><\/li>\n                <li style=\"display: none; width: 100%;\" class=\"slide-9993 ms-image \" aria-roledescription=\"slide\" data-date=\"2018-09-17 10:40:24\" data-filename=\"UDPHackathon_MichITNews-13-e1537571218551.jpg\" data-slide-type=\"image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" src=\"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/UDPHackathon_MichITNews-13-e1537571218551.jpg\" class=\"slider-9977 slide-9993 msDefaultImage\" alt=\"&quot; &quot;\" rel=\"\" title=\"UDPHackathon_MichITNews - 13\" style=\"margin-top: 4.1666666666667%\" \/><div class=\"caption-wrap\"><div class=\"caption\">John Johnston, ITS Teaching and Learning IT program manager and U-M project lead for the Unizin Data Platform, hosted the UDP hackathon.\n(Photo: Joel Iverson, ITS Communications)<\/div><\/div><\/li>\n            <\/ul>\n        <\/div>\n        \n    <\/div>\n<\/div>On August 2-3, U-M hosted eight of our peer institutions from the Unizin consortium, as well as developers from Google, to participate in a hackathon using the newly developed Unizin Data Platform (UDP). The UDP is a cloud-based, learning analytics infrastructure that commonly models behavioral, performance, and demographic dimensions of teaching and learning data.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Participants used a representational data set (free of identifying information) to explore several contemporary teaching and learning challenges. For many of our peer institutions, this was their first look at the potential of this new infrastructure to facilitate the development of learning analytics dashboards, performance monitoring, new learning tools, and the advancement of the learning sciences. <\/span><\/p>\n<h1>Sharing ideas<\/h1>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cThis was a great opportunity to meet other like-minded professionals and exchange experiences in a time-constrained, adrenaline-pumping, hands-on setting,\u201d says T.K. Lee, a research and development engineer from Penn State University.\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Erik Scull, principal online instructional developer at Indiana University called the hackathon, &#8220;A great opportunity to brainstorm new integration ideas, and to peek over the shoulders of other devs for inspiration.&#8221;<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">U-M is the lead institution of this effort within Unizin, a nonprofit consortium of 25 leading universities dedicated to promoting affordability, access, and learner success in digital education. This event showcased the impressive progress made over the past six months in building the UDP\u2019s infrastructure on the Google Cloud Platform (GCP). <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">As U-M School of Information professor and hackathon participant Charles Severance put it, \u201cFinally, we&#8217;ve got a place were we can store all the data and get it back out.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<h1>Exploring challenges<\/h1>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><div class=\"perfect-pullquote vcard pullquote-align-right pullquote-border-placement-left\"><blockquote><p>Finally, we&#8217;ve got a place were we can store all the data and get it back out.<\/p><footer itemscope itemtype=\"http:\/\/schema.org\/Person\"><cite><span itemprop=\"name\">Charles Severance, UMSI<\/span><\/cite><\/footer><\/blockquote><\/div>Challenges explored during the hackathon included risk factor analysis, grade prediction metrics, correlation between demographic\u00a0<\/span>attributes and student performance, capturing learning event data from Google Drive, average time on task completing assignments, and instrumenting learning tools using the Caliper analytics specification.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Unizin consortium offers the academy an opportunity to retain strategic data assets and to provide a counterbalance to the harvesting of student learning data by commercial entities with varying motivations. The university believes that learning analytics data needs to be managed in a transparent and respectful manner that secures students\u2019 privacy and empowers faculty and students to leverage data towards better learning outcomes and scholarly growth. <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<h1>Next steps<\/h1>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The next phase of development will enable research into the advancement of the learning sciences, develop better pedagogical tools and methodologies, deliver personalized learning at scale, and ultimately improve student success outcomes. For example, ITS Teaching &amp; Learning is currently working with Stephanie Teasley from SI and Stewart Karabenick from SoE to leverage the UDP to build a student-facing service to help students with self-regulated learning and provide \u201cnudges\u201d to improve student study behaviors.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">&#8220;University engagement with the Unizin Data Platform is essential to drive its development in service of learning analytics,&#8221; said Etienne Pelaprat, Unizin chief technical officer, &#8220;we are grateful for U-M&#8217;s leadership as we break new technical ground to better serve our mission.&#8221;\u00a0<\/span>Edward Doan, customer engineer for Google for Education, agrees: &#8220;I had a fabulous time at the Unizin hackathon. I was really blown away by the enthusiasm for learning analytics and the willingness of participants to roll up their sleeves.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Special thanks to Joanna Elliott and Joe Gorde at the School of Education for providing superb support in hosting the event in the Brandon Center for the Study of Education Practice. The facility provided the perfect mix of collaboration spaces and technical amenities.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On August 2-3, U-M hosted eight of our peer institutions from the Unizin consortium, as well as developers from Google, to participate in a hackathon using the newly developed Unizin Data Platform (UDP). The UDP is a cloud-based, learning analytics infrastructure that commonly models behavioral, performance, and demographic dimensions of teaching and learning data. Participants used a representational\u2026 <span class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/2018\/09\/14\/hackathon-learning-analytics\/\">Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":91,"featured_media":9978,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_uag_custom_page_level_css":"","_umich_oidc_access":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"1534896000","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"Michigan will be hosting a Unizin Data Platform hackathon on August 2nd and 3rd. 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