Analytical Framework for Mirroring and Reflection of User Activities in E-Learning Environment

This chapter deals with evaluation of user activities and their participation in collaborative processes realized within the supporting virtual environment. The main goal behind proposed solution is to provide standalone package with all necessary functionalities to obtain data from examined virtual collaborative system in form of logs. For this purpose the following has been designed and implemented: a repository with predefined log format representing source historical data for analyzes; supporting middleware services for proposed analytical approaches; end-user tool for time-line based mirroring and analyses of user activities. These basic functionalities are extended with possibility to extract various summative statistics [10] about performed user activities and possibility to export data in predefined format (e.g. MS Excel) for analyses in third party tools as e.g. IBM SPSS Modeler. Described analytical framework has been designed, implemented and tested mainly within KP-Lab System that represents new interesting application in the domain of virtual environments or e-Learning systems. Proposed architecture was designed as generic platform with possibility to be integrated with other systems such as Moodle or Claroline in order to reflect different user practices.