  This paper presents the METAL project, an ongoing French open Learning
Analytics (LA) project for secondary school, that aims at improving the quality
of the learning process. The originality of METAL is that it relies on research
through exploratory activities and focuses on all the aspects of a Learning
Analytics implementation. This large-scale project includes many concerns,
divided into 4 main actions. (1) data management: multi-source data
identification, collection and storage, selection and promotion of standards,
and design and development of an open-source Learning Record Store (LRS); (2)
data visualization: learner and teacher dashboards, with a design that relies
on the co-conception with final users, including trust and usability concerns;
(3) data exploitation: study of the link between gaze and memory of learners,
design of explainable multi-source data-mining algorithms, including ethics and
privacy concerns. An additional key of originality lies in the global
dissemination of LA at an institution level or at a broader level such as a
territory, at the opposite on many projects that focus on a specific school or
a school curriculum. Each of these aspects is a hot topic in the literature.
Taking into account all of them in a holistic view of education is an
additional added value of the project.
