Releases of the Learning Analytics, Scaffolding Services, and Add-on Services – initial

This deliverable describes and demonstrates the initial release of learning analytics, scaffolding, and add-on services of Go-Lab. However, the main product of this deliverable are the software prototypes of the learning analytics, scaffolding, and add-on services, many of which are accessible online. Currently, we have realised the first prototypes specified in the initial specification of D4.2. It serves as a documentation of the development progress of the first prototypes. It also reports early evaluation results of the first prototypes. This deliverable consists of two major parts: (i) the learning analytics and scaffolding services and (ii) the add-on services including a booking system and a tutoring platform (which was called the Bartering Platform in D4.2). The initial release of the learning analytics and scaffolding services comprise of the prototypical implementation of the action logging, back-end services and guidance mechanisms that have been specified in D4.2. The add-on services prototype of the booking system includes a set of mock-up components, while the first prototype of the tutoring platform is accessible at http://tutoring.golabz.eu. The prototypes show that they are able to support the federation of online labs via the booking mechanism and to motivate the user community to interact on the portal actively via skills bartering. Based on the experiences and prototypes described in this deliverable and our future work, the specifications of the learning analytics, scaffolding, and add-on services will be updated and finalised in D4.6 (M33). Furthermore, the evaluation of the first prototypes will contribute to the development improvement of the final release in D4.8 (M36).

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