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CLO magazine, 2005, written by Chris Moore, Zeroed-In Technologies, post-THINQ and TrainingServer. Defines learning analytics as "... the study of the impact of learning on its learners." This is an industry take on the term/practice, which focuses on learning effectiveness and operational excellence. Current solutions include visual dashboards for managing talent and measuring education initiatives/including 'strategic/tactical scorecards'. Saying all the right things to HR/VPs ...

This is a fairly broad biblio of learning analytics related literature. We should likely take the LAK11 and LAK12 conference submissions and mine the citations to get a sense of how people are defining the analytics space.

Comparing learning analytics with EDM

good short article that introduces the concept of learning analytics

Take the 5 min needed to watch this video - Knewton is the most innovative company in the learning analytics space...

New! NMC Horizon Report > 2012 Higher Ed Edition. Learning analytics is on the 2nd Horizon, in two or three years...

Alliances...Knewton, adaptive learning, and Pearson, textbook content, team up. Why? "We want to power everyone's content," says Ferreira, CEO, Knewton.

big student data

I am not sure where there is direct relevance to Learning Analytics. There is no doubt that mining the public data of social network will be useful for identifying trends, possibly with implications for learning. The big unknown is how reliable is it? Are these networks representative of a population or specific group? I am not convinced of that.

Big Data Gap

this is intimidating, knowing the degree to which our habits are monetized by organizations

We use QM Perception extensively for evaluating learning/capability and deploying surveys. Most valuable to our analysis is the Item Analysis report which has extensive data and built in data for psychometric analysis.

Today, we're announcing plans for a School of Data. The School will be a joint venture between the Open Knowledge Foundation and Peer 2 Peer University (P2PU). We also welcome other organizations who would like to participate - see below for more on this.