Academic Session ACA11
Moodle LMS Data Used in Predictive Analysis to Indicate Students Likely to Interrupt Studies
Date Thursday, Dec 1 Time – RoomPotsdam I
Is it possible to predict which students are in real danger of interrupting or dropping out from their studies before it’s too late? This presentation gives insight into how LMS data can be used to detect and predictively prevent study interruptions.
Lasse Seppänen
Principal Lecturer, Häme University of Applied Sciences (HAMK), Finland
Principal lecturer Lasse Seppänen, Lic. Sc., has a strong background in programming (12 years) and teaching (19 years). He is currently responsible in the degree programme in Business IT of Häme University of Applied Sciences (HAMK), Finland, for curriculum development, thesis management, internationalization, several courses and student projects and he is teaching both daytime classroom and evening online studies. He is developing studies related to Big Data, Business Intelligence and Analytics. He is developing systems that indicate students who are in danger of delaying or interrupting their studies. Mr. Seppänen has developed a thesis management system. His hobbies include music, building and travelling.
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Nives Kreuh
Senior Consultant, E-learning, National Education Institute, Slovenia
Nives Kreuh is a Head of e-learning at the National Education Institute in Slovenia. She is doing the national research, strategy planning and implementation of new curricula through teacher continuous professional development in the field of digital pedagogy and e-learning.
She was leading the national E-competent teacher project in which they designed the standard of e-competent teacher, principle and ICT coordinators in schools framework called The Way towards E-competency. She focused on designing key e-competencies and developing the efficient training model called The Way towards E-competency, leading the instructional design and online courses (MOOCs) development for in-service teacher training and professional development to raise pedagogical digital literacy in schools nationwide.
She is the Head of Programme and Organising Committe of the international SIRikt* conference (*Enabling Education and Research with ICT), which is the largest educational conference in Slovenia with around 1000 delegates each year.
She also works internationally as the national expert and is the author of E-Competent Teacher, Principle and IT expert Framework and Designing E-Student Books Framework.