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Learning Analytics Timeline

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  • First Automated Teaching Machine

    First Automated Teaching Machine
    Pressey (1927) created the first intelligent tutoring systems, which is an area learning analytics draws from. Presey's Tutoring System

  • First Adaptive Teaching System

    First Adaptive Teaching System
    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

  • Start of Computers in Education

    Start of Computers in Education
    In 1959 Donald Bitier started PLATO, the first, large-scale project for the use of computers in education. Bitier's PLATO

  • Computer Assisted Instruction (CAI) Takes Off

    Computer Assisted Instruction (CAI) Takes Off
    Since the 1970s, CAI packages have become more advanced, interactive, and attractive multimedia learning experiences. CAI History

  • Credit for Computer Based Instruction

    Credit for Computer Based Instruction
    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"
    (p. 7).

  • First Learning Management System (LMS)

    First Learning Management System (LMS)
    SoftArc develops FirstClass, a system run on personal Macintosh computers and often recognized as the first learning management system. LMS Timeline.

  • The Rise of Online Learning

    The Rise of Online Learning
    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.

  • Moodle Released - first open source LMS

    Moodle Released - first open source LMS
    "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

  • First Data Mining Workshop

    First Data Mining Workshop
    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

  • First Data Mining Article

    First Data Mining Article
    Romero and Ventura published Educational data mining: A survey from 1995 to 2005

  • The LMS Becomes Cloud Based

    The LMS Becomes Cloud Based
    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.

  • Learning Analytics and the LMS

    Learning Analytics and the LMS
    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.

  • First Conference on Learning Analytics & Knowledge

    First Conference on Learning Analytics & Knowledge
    "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"

  • The Educational Data Mining Society Founded

    The Educational Data Mining Society Founded
    "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"

  • Society for Learning Analytics Established

    Society for Learning Analytics Established
    "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."

  • Learning Analytics First Handbook

    Learning Analytics First Handbook
    "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."

  • Learning Analytics Explained

    Learning Analytics Explained
    "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