Learning Engineering Toolkit

CHAPTER 13 Data Instrumentation Tools

by Erin Czerwinski, Jim Goodell, Steve Ritter, Robert Sottilare, and Khanh-Phuong Thai

This chapter provides process tools for deciding what data to collect and for designing instrumentation for the collection of those data. It supports practical application of concepts introduced in Chapter 5, Learning Engineering Uses Data (Part 1): Instrumentation. This chapter also includes references to standards-based open-source software resources for instrumenting learning experiences.

In Chapter 5 we examined the essential role of data collection in the learning engineering process. Instrumentation design and implementation are integral for this. During the creation phase we’re not only creating learning experiences ...