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- PaperJournal of Learning Analytics22 Mar 2026
Human-Centred Development of Indicators for Self-Service Learning Analytics
Shoeb Joarder, Mohamed Amine Chatti
The paper presents the design and evaluation of an Indicator Editor for self-service learning analytics, following a human-centred approach. A qualitative study showed that empowering users to control indicator implementation improved transparency, trust, satisfaction, and acceptance.
Original abstract
The aim of learning analytics (LA) is to turn educational data into insights, decisions, and actions to improve learning and teaching. The reasoning of the provided insights, decisions, and actions is often not transparent to the end-user, and this can lead to trust and acceptance issues when interventions, feedback, and recommendations fail. In this paper, we shed light on achieving transparent LA by following a transparency through exploration approach. To this end, we present the design, implementation, and evaluation details of the Indicator Editor, which aims to support self-service LA (SSLA) by empowering end-users to take control of the indicator implementation process. We systematically designed and implemented the Indicator Editor through an iterative human-centred design (HCD) approach. Further, we conducted a qualitative user study (n=15\) to investigate the impact of following an SSLA approach on users' perceptions of and interactions with the Indicator Editor. Our study showed qualitative evidence that supporting user interaction and providing user control in the indicator implementation process can have positive effects on different crucial aspects of LA, namely transparency, trust, satisfaction, and acceptance.