Extended version of the paper "Traceability by design: design of an interactive system to improve the automatic generation of Git traces during a learning activity"

Mika Pons (1) , Jean-Michel Bruel (2) , Jean-Baptiste Raclet (3) , Franck Silvestre (1, 4)

1 UT Capitole - Université Toulouse Capitole
2 IRIT-SM@RT - Smart Modeling for softw@re Research and Technology
3 IRIT-ACADIE - Assistance à la Certification d’Applications DIstribuées et Embarquées
4 IRIT-TALENT - Teaching And Learning Enhanced by Technologies

Learning Analytics (LA) is collecting and analyzing traces of learners' activities in order to understand and improve learning. This paper focuses on traces generated using the version control system Git. Existing works on the topic have limitations regarding the quality of the traces they analyze: (1) the quantity and content are not always sufficient for in-depth analysis of student behavior, (2) their limited reliability can lead to a loss of exploitable data, and (3) the method of generating these traces is not generic. We propose a new interactive system based on Git and the observation of file modifications to generate automatically reliable and rich traces. This interactive system will soon be experimented with in an ecological context and is intended for diversified teaching contexts.

Keywords: Learning analytics Git Traces Interactive system; Learning analytics; Git; Traces; Interactive system

Domains: Technology for Human Learning

Mika Pons, Jean-Michel Bruel, Jean-Baptiste Raclet, Franck Silvestre. Extended version of the paper "Traceability by design: design of an interactive system to improve the automatic generation of Git traces during a learning activity". 2023. ⟨hal-04141003⟩