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Natercia Valle tells a cautionary tale about the use of learning analytics dashboards to increase student motivation, and the challenges of translating theory into design solutions. Natercia Valle is…
The increasing use of technology for teaching and learning has led to a significant amount of data being collected on how learning occurs in today’s world. To capitalize on this rich data, Learning Analytics (LA) has emerged in recent years as an important field that enables the measurement, collection, analysis and reporting of educational data for the purpose of understanding and optimizing learning.
The statement provided six "guiding principles" for analytics implementations in higher education:
"Go big — make an institutional commitment to analytics."
"Analytics is a team sport — build your dream team." A
"Prepare for some detours on the road to success."
"Invest what you can — you can't afford not to."
"Analytics has real impact on real people — avoid the pitfalls."
"Tick-tock, tick-tock — the time to act is now."
Kim Flintoff's insight:
"Analytics can save higher education, according to a bold new statement from the Association for Institutional Research (AIR), Educause and the National Association of College and University Business Officers (NACUBO). The associations' call for action highlighted the importance of harnessing analytics to improve completion rates, campus operations, strategic decision-making and more."
Bentley students now tackle data analytics and work with large, real-world data sets early in their college careers, thanks to new and redesigned introductory courses.
There's growing evidence that educators benefit from some training in order to make the most of learning analytics dashboards. Linda Corrin shares insights from her extensive experience - and it's about more than "data literacy"…
I have now covered all five main articles in the special August issue of the journal Distance Education on learning analytics (because it is not an open publication). These are:
1- analytics and learning design at the UKOU. 2- analytics and personality traits in a high school in China 3- analytics and gamification in an undergraduate course at a Hong Kong university 4- learning analytics to predict mastery using an online mathematics tutoring system 5- MOOCs and student data privacy: a sentiment analysis based on the terms of service of three MOOC providers.
However, there are also two commentaries on the five articles in this issue, one by George Siemens and the other by Michael Jacobson. I will briefly discuss these commentaries then give my own overview of what the five papers suggest to me about the current use of learning analytics in online learning and distance education.
After years of researching the factors that impact student success, Marist College developed an open source early alert dashboard that turns interventions into a proactive, rather than reactive, process.
At the 2019 Enterprise Summit, higher education IT, business and finance, and institutional research professionals gathered to explore the future and the promise of analytics. This second in a series of three blog posts looks at the need for faculty and staff to develop skills and competencies in data management, data analysis, and communication in order to navigate and work in an increasingly data-oriented culture.
Kim Flintoff's insight:
At the 2019 Enterprise Summit, higher education IT, business and finance, and institutional research professionals gathered to explore the future and the promise of analytics. This second in a series of three blog posts looks at the need for faculty and staff to develop skills and competencies in data management, data analysis, and communication in order to navigate and work in an increasingly data-oriented culture.
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