Go-Lab Releases of the Learning Analytics, Scaffolding Services, and Add-on Services -Final

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This deliverable describes the final releases of learning analytics, scaffolding,and add-on services of Go-Lab, following the final specification reported in D4.6(M33). It also considers users’ feedback and reviewers’ evaluation to the initialrelease in D4.4 (M24).This deliverable consists of two major parts: (i) the learning analytics and scaf-folding services and (ii) the add-on services which are specified in two compo-nents, i.e. the booking system and the tutoring platform.The learning analytics and scaffolding services consist of a rich backend andseveral options to develop new learning analytics apps according to the spec-ified infrastructure and architecture. To support the two main stakeholders oflearning analytics in Go-Lab, namely teachers and learners, a teacher dash-board and several apps, e.g., to support learners’ reflection, will be presentedin this deliverable. Participatory design activities, particularly framed by the Go-Lab Summer School 2015, have been used to evaluate initial versions of thelearning analytics apps to gather useful feedback aligned to the stakeholders.The booking system (http://www.golabz.eu/) offers Go-Lab remote labs anappropriate booking service using a calendar managed by lab owners. It con-sists of the front-end user interfaces for both lab owners and teachers, as wellas the backend services to validate the booking information through the Go-LabSmart Gateway. The tutoring platform (http://tutoring.golabz.eu/) helpsbuild up a virtual community where teachers could share their expertise in in-quiry learning with online labs and help each other grow their teaching skills.Both of them provide the add-on services for the Go-Lab Portal.The releases of LA, scaffolding services, and add-on services facilitate a tech-nical framework with additional indispensable services for the Go-Lab Portal (cf.D5.6). They are the collaboration research results between WP4 and WP5,taking into account the feedback from WP3.