We want to make this page a great analytics starting point for the whole Open edX community! You can help by adding links to relevant content like past talks, slides, documents, videos. The guiding question is, "Would the information I want to post be helpful to someone who wants to learn more about analytics for Open edX?"
- Analytics Working Group organizers
This page serves as a starting point for understanding the analytics ecosystem for Open edX.
Analytics could be defined by a process in which data is interpreted in a way, so to discover patterns useful to predict further trends of the data. A better definition can be found on Wikipedia as "discovery, interpretation, and communication of meaningful patterns in data; and the process of applying those patterns towards effective decision-making". So analytics embeds a wide range of processes, tools and objectives relying on the context they are thought to be used for.
In the context of teaching and learning, analytics are used to retrieve information and pattern from learners' progress for a range of different end users (teacher, staff, management...). Retrieved information will then be used to either correct detected issues in the course, the set of courses or understand and support students who are failing. In our context we are also interested in "Analysis" of the data (see "Analysis vs Analytics: past vs. Future"), so we will blur both definition under the "Analytics" terms umbrella, although some tools and processes are more in tune with the definition of the Analysis process.
The Analytics Working group had its start at the 2019 Open edX Conference Dev Summit in San Diego. The group is currently being formed. Two organizers have volunteered to lead the group, Laurent David and John Baldwin. A third edX as yet unchosen person will be the third volunteer/organizer.
For analytics specific topics, you can visit the Open edX #analytics slack channel
Current Analytics Tools
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Other Resources
We have not yet created analytics content
This section is a starting point to collect analytics related resources
main page: Event Tracking (tracking logs)