Limits and Potentials of Grasping User Interaction in Controlled and Open World Environments - Contrasting PIAAC Large-Scale-Assessment Usage Data with Web Analytics

Abstract

Educational practices are becoming more and more digitalized and learning is realized in the open web as well as in controlled digital learning environments. This provides new opportunities not only for new interactive teaching methods, but also for tracking the interaction with learning materials for improving teaching and learning as well as for assessments (cf. Siemens & Long, 2011). On one hand, the field of Computer-based assessment (CBA) uses these new research capacities for improving competence assessments in controlled and validated test environments. On the other hand, in the open web, tasks are pursued in interactive situations and protocolled in logfiles. In this study, these two different situations of open and controlled environments are contrasted by analyzing the different fabrications and expressiveness’ of