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LA is...

"... a field associated with deciphering trends and patterns from educational big data, or huge sets of student-related data, to further the advancement of a personalized, supportive system of higher education.

-- The 2013 Horizon Report

"...the measurement, collection, analysis and reporting of data about learners and their contexts, for purposes of understanding and optimising learning and the environments in which it occurs."

-- SoLAR (Society for Learning Analytics Research)

Dr. Thomas Hill: Completing the Value Chain

What is

Learning Analytics?

Descriptive vs. Predictive Analytics

(Russ Little, PAR Framework)

Predictive:

- specific insight into e.g.

1. Which students are currently at risk for completing and why?

2. What is the predicted course completion rate for a particular program?

Descriptive:

- institutional insight into e.g.

1. How does your institution compare to your peer institutions?

2. How did performance vary by student attributes?

PAR (Predictive Analytics Reporting), http://www.parframework.org

Learning Analytics Key Question Positioning (Rob Abel, Vince Kellen)

Success factors (Vince Kellen, Univ. of Kentucky)

  • Transparency
  • Democratize analysis
  • Enforce community etiquette
  • Bring in Faculty students, researchers
  • Engage broader higher education community
  • Real time data

Source: http://publications.cetis.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/Analytics-Brief-History-Vol-1-No9.pdf

Key issues to consider

(Kimberly Arnold, U of Wisconsin-Madison)

Learning Analytics @

Educause 2015

Outi Tasala & Olli Salo

LA Findings @ Edu2015

  • LA is not a tool but a process
  • LA demands commitment from stakeholders
  • Complete stakeholder analysis BEFORE you act
  • Value comes also from sharing across multiple Universities, however generalizability causes a challenge!
  • ECAR Analytics Maturity Index: http://www.educause.edu/ecar/research-publications/ecar-analytics-maturity-index-higher-education

https://twitter.com/TasalaOuti

https://twitter.com/osalo

http://tinyurl.com/zubvedg

Open Academic Analytics Initiative (Josh Baron, Marist College)

  • Open source LA software
  • Open standards and API's
  • Open knowledge: predictive models, knowledge maps
  • Open content/access: journals, whitepapers
  • Openness and transparency with regards to ethics / privacy

European LA case: JISC

JISC National Learning Analytics Project

  • UK gov't funded £1m project
  • Apereo LAI platform and openness strategy
  • 2 year project to create highly scalable, cloud based LA service
  • All work released under OS license
  • Code release in Spring 2016

In a nutshell...

Screenshots from http://analytics.jiscinvolve.org and https://www.apereo.org/communities/learning-analytics-initiative

  • Invest in best tools and practices
  • Beware vendor lock-in!
  • Consider partnering with consortia (IMS, Apereo, PAR) and utilizing their work (Caliper, LAI)
  • Proven success on a local scale (Univ. of Kentucky, Univ. of Michican, North Carolina State U., Purdue U., Univ. of Maryland University College)
  • Don't postpone answering the ethical questions (see e.g. SLAM http://crlt.umich.edu/slam)
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