Learning Analytics Dashboard Supporting Metacognition

Mastering self-regulated learning (SRL) can help learners achieve their academic goals. In this paper, we discuss the designs and development of a learning analytics dashboard (LAD) we created to support learners’ metacognition, the Metaboard. We tested the Metaboard with four student participants, then surveyed their perceptions of the LAD and its usefulness as a formative evaluation in the later design cycle. They reported that the Metaboard was a useful tool for learning digital learning materials, proposed additions and revisions, and identified the four most important elements of the LAD: (1) appropriate graphic representations; (2) comparison functions; (3) monitoring functions that relate to goal attainment; and (4) consistent feedback.