MILA: A SCORM-Compliant Interactive Learning Analytics Tool for Moodle

Abstract

This paper presents MILA, a prototype interactive Learning Analytics tool for the Moodle learning management system that has been developed to support the analysis and improvement of the teaching and learning processes in the e-learning environment of the University of Rome Unitelma Sapienza. MILA offers a variety of interactive and real-time data visualizations that provide statistics, trends, and insight information both on the Moodle-based virtual learning environment as a whole, and on each course included in it. In addition to Moodle standard logs, MILA is able to analyze tracking data generated by SCORM-compliant learning objects and to measure the duration of the related user sessions. Although MILA has been developed as a Moodle plugin, its software architecture and analysis models can be re-used and adapted to develop a learning analytics tool for any SCORM-compliant learning management system.