2. Learning analytics is…
• Learning analytics is the measurement,
collection, analysis and reporting of data
about learners and their contexts for the
purposes of understanding and optimising
learning and the environments in which it
occurs
[LAK2011]
3. Learning analytics is…
• Is the analysis of many kinds of learner-
produced and learner-related data
• Seeks to monitor learner activity and progress
and to predict learner outcomes
• Enables interventions and decision making
about learning by instructors and students
4. It can be used for…
• Sense making
• Identifying students ‘at-risk’
• Driving pedagogic change
8. • Increase student satisfaction with academic
and pastoral support
• Increase the level of overall satisfaction
expressed in responses to the NSS, PTES, PRES
student surveys to at least 88%
[University Strategic Plan 2012-2016]
9. Opportunities / Barriers
• Much of what can be measured easily is not
necessarily of use
• What is student ‘success’?
• Do we understand what data / measurements
are significant for our students?
• Ethical issues
• Data literacies
13. Opportunities / Barriers
• Vendor growth
– Course Signals
– Tribal Student Insight
– Blackboard Analytics
– Various retention systems packaged up as
analytics (Starfish etc)
14. Final thoughts…
• Big vs Small
– What is possible / appropriate to do at an
institutional level?
– What is best done at a local level (School,
programme, course)?
• What do we want to predict / change?
• What are the ‘success’ criteria?
• How is it measured?
Notas do Editor
PredictionInterventionPersonalisationAdaptation
What is student ‘success’Pass?Pass above average?Exceed individual expectation?
Tools within the VLEs (SNAPP, Retention Center, MVM efforts)