USING MULTILINGUAL ANALYTICS TO EXPLORE THE USAGE OF A LEARNING PORTAL IN DEVELOPING COUNTRIES

Abstract

Learning analytics is a domain constantly evolving throughout the last years, due to the acknowledgement of its importance. Learning analytics may be applied in a variety of different cases but their role in understanding the multilingual requirements of users of learning portals is of an outstanding significance. As the adaptation of existing portals in multilingual environments is a cost and time-consuming aspect of the development of a portal, the outcomes of learning analytics may provide the requirements on which further multilingual services of a portal will be built, ensuring their efficiency. This paper aims to identify and interpret the behavior of users from developing countries in a multilingual learning portal using the log files of the portal by applying the methodology defined in a previous work by Stoitsis et al. (2012). The paper also aims to identify the aspects which should be further studied by future related works, by focusing on specific regions and countries, which exhibit special interest for further adaptation of the portal to additional multilingual environments.

Keywords

• learning analytics
• multilinguality
• learning portal
• developing countries