Hello, I would like to ask if there is a package or script that can create logs on what programs the teachers and students use/access?
Will van der Leij discussed in the mail that analyzing logs alone is not an indication of active use and can be misleading [1]. We hope to incorporate log analysis into the qualitiative evaluation process. Any ideas? Thank you in advance. Maning [1] > > 4. As part of the project I would also like to monitor how the PC are > > being used (both by teachers and students). One mechanism is to save > > the syslog (possibly on a diskette) and send them to me for analysis. > Monitoring application usage can be a helpful exercise but can also be > misleading. Using programme access logs as such does not really give an > indication of use. Children (and adults too I guess) can have an inquisitive > tendency to open up everything but not necessarily use it. > It can be helpful, though, in looking for anomolies, i.e. > - is the workstation in the corner ever following the lesson plans > during a lesson period > - very popular applications will peak out in usage logs > - and the opposite too > > The effectivity of a PC lab is not best measured by accounting for its usage > but rather for looking at its intended impact: > - do the learners improve in attitude, confidence, exposure and basic > knowledge of technology. A simple before & after Likert scale can be > quite handy here. > - where do the subjects/learners proceed to from there and are they > better quipped? Etc. > > A much harder assessment to make is whether the technology intervention is > an improvement on or serves to compliment traditional teaching methods. > > Will van der Leij -- edubuntu-devel mailing list edubuntu-devel@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/edubuntu-devel
