EdOptimize — An Open Source K-12 Learning Analytics Platform

The educational data science team at Playpower Labs is excited to unveil EdOptimize, an open-source K-12 Learning Analytics Platform. Education stakeholders will be able to improve digital learning systems, programmes, and implementation with the resources given in this platform. We expect that by making our technology accessible, EdTech companies would be able to engage in data-driven continuous development.

EdTech platform data has the potential to have a huge impact on student learning results. Learning analytics data may now be used by EdTech executives to take decisive changes that improve online learning effectiveness. We can quickly begin to examine the implementation of digital learning programmes at scale utilising the EdOptimize Platform. The EdOptimize Platform’s data insights can help education stakeholders make evidence-based decisions that will result in better online learning experiences.

The EdOptimize Platform is made up of three large data dashboards. These dashboards include a variety of useful learning analytics that we’ve developed over the course of our years of working with various school systems across the United States.

Our platform’s open-source code can be found at https://github.com/PlaypowerLabs/EdOptimize.

The following are brief descriptions of each of the dashboards included in the platform:

1. Platform Analytics: This dashboard is designed to provide EdTech product teams with information about their online learning platform’s trends and power users. They can use the data from their platform’s user activity to identify activities that will improve user retention and engagement. Visit https://playpowerlabs.shinyapps.io/edopt platform analytics/ to see the dashboard in action.
2. Curriculum Analytics: This dashboard is meant to assist curriculum teams in identifying learning trends in their digital curriculum products. Curriculum designers can use this dashboard to find content that needs to be changed and to view classroom pacing metrics. We can also look at the kids’ assessment data, item analysis, and standards performance. Visit https://playpowerlabs.shinyapps.io/edopt curriculum analytics/ to see the dashboard in action.
3. Implementation Analytics: The goal of this dashboard is to keep track of how well digital programmes are being implemented in school districts. This dashboard will assist districts in making the most of their online learning initiatives. The data in this dashboard can be highly useful for district leaders and success managers who want to guarantee that a digital programme rollout goes smoothly and effectively. Visit https://playpowerlabs.shinyapps.io/edopt implementation analytics/ to see the dashboard in action.

We’d love to hear your thoughts on how this platform may be expanded to operate with a variety of EdTech systems and serve as a common tool for the educational data community to extract more value from the massive amounts of data collected every day.

We hope that our platform proves to be beneficial to the ever-expanding EdTech community!