Incorporating Learning Analytics in an Educational Game to Provide Players with Information about how to Improve Their Performance

Educational games aim to balance learning and playing. However, for people to benefit from an educational game, they must be encouraged to play the game often. Providing players with information about how to improve their performance could help in achieving this goal. This paper examines how a learning analytics dashboard can be incorporated into an educational game to encourage players to play more often and continuously. The proposed dashboard provides players with a variety of information such as how their performance and skills change over time. Such information allows players to see their performance and play habits, and find strategies on how to improve their performance, and therefore their learning, in the game.