Integration of a Flexible Analytics Workbench with a Learning Platform for Medical Specialty Training

In this paper we present a generic and extensible analytics workbench and show how it can be connected to learning platforms in order to analyze the activities on the platform from different perspectives. We show that as the analytics workbench already supports a wide range of analyses like network analysis, statistical analysis, and analysis of activity logs, the main effort needed for connecting a learning platform to it lies in transporting the log data of the platform into the workbench. However the analytics workbench is also designed for extensibility so if desired more specific analysis capabilities can be added to it easily. We present an analysis of the online platform of the KOLEGEA research project for supporting medical doctors in their specialty training as a case example for how the integration can be done, for what kind of analyses can be conducted, and for how the analysis results can help both the developers and the operators of such a learning platform.