Current trends and future directions of learning analytics research

Abstract

Recent advancement of information and communication technologies (ICT) promotes its use on educational settings. ICT plays important roles in improving education and learning environments, using learning logs that stored in information technologies. This is one of important advantages of ICT use in educational settings. “Learning analytics” aims to contribute to improve education and learning environments, based on the analytics results from various viewpoints including learning logs analytics. The number of papers and projects about learning analytics research is increasing and increasing, due to its feature that contribute to improve education and learning environments. This paper introduces the recent trends of learning analytics research, in particular, focusing on “Journal of Learning Analytics”, and shows future direction of learning analytics research.