Slides for workshop

1. Analytics
Who, what, why, where
when?
Sheila MacNeill, Jisc CETIS

2. What?
• "Analytics is the process of developing
actionable insights through problem definition
and the application of statistical models and
analysis against existing and/or simulated
future data." (Adam Cooper, 2012)

3. It's all about the data
Well, not quite

4. Who?
• Analytics by our definition is much more about
a personal and organisational perspective on
using data for decision-making and action-
planning and less about how it is processed
in a computer; evaluating, planning and doing
are human activities. (Cetis Analytics Series)

5. What is Analytics Paper? Cetis, 2012

6. Our starting points

8. Institutional
Readiness for Analytics for the
Analytics
Whole Institution;
Balancing Strategy
The Implications of and Tactics
Analytics for Teaching
Practice in Higher Analytics for Learning
Education
and Teaching
Infrastructure and Overview Analytics for
Tools for Analytics
Big issues Understanding
Research
History & context
What is Analytics? Practice Legal, Risk
and Ethical Aspects of
Definition and Technology Analytics in Higher
Essential Education
Characteristics
A Framework of
Characteristics for
Analytics
A Brief History of Analytics, what is changing and why does it matter?
Analytics

9. Group discussions and feedback
What (why)?
What does your institution collect data for ?
Individually write as many examples as you
can think of on post-it notes ( 2 minutes)
In groups try to cluster (teaching & learning,
research, admin/management) ( 5 mins)

10. Group discussions and feedback
Where, when (how)?
Go back to you data points
where, when (how) is this data collected?
(5 mins)

11. Group discussions and feedback
Who and how?
Who (what) collects and does "something"
with the data?
Who can access the data?
When can they/you access it and in what
format?
(10 mins)

12. Group discussions and feedback
What?
What else could be done with it?
can you see any potential connections
between the data collection points you
have shared?

13. Links and Resources
• http://publications.cetis.ac.uk/c/analytics -Cetis Analytics Series
• http://jisc.cetis.ac.uk/topic/analytics
• http://www.iite.unesco.org/publications/3214711/ - Unesco Policy b
• http://www.jiscinfonet.ac.uk/infokits/relationship-management/
• SoLAR http://www.solaresearch.org/
• s.macneill@strath.ac.uk (@sheilmcn)