A web platform for the assessment of competences in Mobile Learning Contexts

Society demands new competences from professionals, who require having specific skills and abilities. Universities, accordingly, have changed from a content-based towards a competency-based educational model. However, the assessment of these competences is not a scalable task, has a subjective nature and must consider data from many different sources. This paper describes the model, architecture and objectives of an on-going research project aimed at developing a web platform called LACAMOLC, to provide teachers and students a dashboard which gathers usage and social data from different Knowledge and Learning Technologies such as Moodle, Google Apps for Education and MediaWiki to provide visual and learning analytics visualizations to support learning and assessment process. We select Pentaho as our analytics specific tool, based on its characteristics in order to effectively scale learning analytics systems and achieve long-term sustainability and scalability, and we design an experiment to carry out for teamwork competence.