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Pressey (1927) created the first intelligent tutoring systems, which is an area learning analytics draws from. Presey's Tutoring System
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In 1956 Gordon Pask created the first Self-Adaptive Keyboard Instructor to help teach keyboarding skills by aligning task difficulty with each learner's current skill level. Pask's keyboard
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In 1959 Donald Bitier started PLATO, the first, large-scale project for the use of computers in education. Bitier's PLATO
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Since the 1970s, CAI packages have become more advanced, interactive, and attractive multimedia learning experiences. CAI History
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Stennett's 1985 review of reviews, "well-designed and implemented D&P (drillandpractice) or tutorial CAI, used as a supplement to traditional instruction, produces an educationally significant improvement in students' final examination achievement"
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SoftArc develops FirstClass, a system run on personal Macintosh computers and often recognized as the first learning management system. LMS Timeline.
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With the creation and expansion of the internet in the 1990s and 2000s, Learning Management Systems began to emerge creating more opportunities for distance learning.
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"Moodle 1.0 was released in August 2002. Users were discussing Moodle on a new forum, translating Moodle into different languages and creating themes. A year later, the first contributed module (workshop) was released and Moodle.org became the community arm of Moodle, with Moodle.com representing the commercial aspect." Moodle Website
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Data Mining predates Learning Analytics, but shares many commonalities, including focusing on large-scale educational data to enhance educational practices. 2005 Data Mining Workshop Contents
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Romero and Ventura published Educational data mining: A survey from 1995 to 2005
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Eucalyptus is released as the first open source application programming interface (API) for the deployment of private clouds. This allows Learning Management Systems to run entirely online.
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With the rise of online learning and the newer API/Cloud-Based Technologies, LMS adoption takes off, bringing together data analytics, learning design, and technology and forming the bases for much of modern Learning Analysis.
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"The International Conference on Learning Analytics & Knowledge is the premier research forum in the field, providing common ground for all stakeholders in the design of analytics systems to debate the state of the art at the intersection of Learning and Analytics"
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"The International Educational Data Mining Society was founded in July 2011, by the International Working Group on Educational Data Mining. Whether educational data is taken from students’ use of interactive learning environments, computer-supported collaborative learning, or administrative data, it often has multiple levels of meaningful hierarchy, which often need to be determined by properties of the data itself, rather than in advance"
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"The Society for Learning Analytics Research (SoLAR) is an interdisciplinary network of leading international researchers who are exploring the role and impact of analytics on teaching, learning, training and development."
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"The Handbook is a snapshot of the field in 2017 and features a range of prominent authors from the learning analytics and educational data mining research communities."
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"Learning Analytics sits at the convergence of Learning (e.g. educational research, learning and assessment sciences, educational technology), Analytics (e.g. statistics, visualization, computer/data sciences, artificial intelligence), and Human-Centered Design" More Learning Analytics Explained
