Learning Analytics and Serious Games: Trends and Considerations

This paper reviews the current status of Learning Analytics with special focus on their application in Serious Games. After presenting the advantages of incorporating Learning Analytics into game-based learning applications, different aspects regarding the integration process including modeling, tracing, aggregation, visualisation, analysis and employment of gameplay data are discussed. Associated challenges in this field as well as examples of best practices are also examined.

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