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andrei gausling

Penetrating the Fog: Analytics in Learning and Education (EDUCAUSE Review) | EDUCAUSE - 1 views

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  • But the most dramatic factor shaping the future of higher education is something that we can’t actually touch or see: big data and analytics. Basing decisions on data and evidence seems stunningly obvious, and indeed, research indicates that data-driven decision-making improves organizational output and productivity.
  • According to the 1st International Conference on Learning Analytics and Knowledge, “learning analytics is 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.”
  • Analytics spans the full scope and range of activity in higher education, affecting administration, research, teaching and learning, and support resources.
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  • How do big data and analytics generate value for higher education? They can improve administrative decision-making and organizational resource allocation. They can identify at-risk learners and provide intervention to assist learners in achieving success. By analyzing discussion messages posted, assignments completed, and messages read in LMSs such as Moodle and Desire2Learn, educators can identify students who are at risk of dropping out.13 They can create, through transparent data and analysis, a shared understanding of the institution’s successes and challenges. They can innovate and transform the college/university system, as well as academic models and pedagogical approaches. They can assist in making sense of complex topics through the combination of social networks and technical and information networks: that is, algorithms can recognize and provide insight into data and at-risk challenges. They can help leaders transition to holistic decision-making through analyses of what-if scenarios and experimentation to explore how various elements within a complex discipline (e.g., retaining students, reducing costs) connect and to explore the impact of changing core elements. They can increase organizational productivity and effectiveness by providing up-to-date information and allowing rapid response to challenges. They can help institutional leaders determine the hard (e.g., patents, research) and soft (e.g., reputation, profile, quality of teaching) value generated by faculty activity.14 They can provide learners with insight into their own learning habits and can give recommendations for improvement. Learning-facing analytics, such as the University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC) Check My Activity tool, allows learners to “compare their own activity . . . against an anonymous summary of their course peers.”15
    • Tess T
      Tess T on 12 Mar 12
       
      Number two talks about customizing learning through analytics by  recognizing at-risk learners and helping them learn better.
    • Tess T
      Tess T on 12 Mar 12
       
      Number nine also talks about customizing how students are taught. It says that Learning Analytics "can provide learners with insight into their own learning habits and can give recommendations for improvement."
  • Analytics in education must be transformative, altering existing teaching, learning, and assessment processes, academic work, and administration.
    • Tess T
      Tess T on 12 Mar 12
       
      This right here is directly talking about using learning analytics to customize   how students are taught
  • Undoubtedly, analytics and big data have a significant role to play in the future of higher education. The growing role of analysis techniques and technologies in government and business sectors affirms this trend. In education the value of analytics and big data can be found in (1) their role in guiding reform activities in higher education, and (2) how they can assist educators in improving teaching and learning.
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      Tess T on 12 Mar 12
       
      So pretty much this is saying that Learning Analytics can improve education because it can assist educators and help them improve their teaching and education based off of the data that they find about their students
    • Tess T
      Tess T on 12 Mar 12
       
      Learning Analytics helps educators find out whats wrong and change it around the student so the student can get the best education possible
  • Learning analytics is essential for penetrating the fog that has settled over much of higher education. Educators, students, and administrators need a foundation on which to enact change. For educators, the availability of real-time insight into the performance of learners—including students who are at-risk—can be a significant help in the planning of teaching activities. For students, receiving information about their performance in relation to their peers or about their progress in relation to their personal goals can be motivating and encouraging. Finally, administrators and decision-makers are today confronted with tremendous uncertainty in the face of budget cuts and global competition in higher education. Learning analytics can penetrate the fog of uncertainty around how to allocate resources, develop competitive advantages, and most important, improve the quality and value of the learning experience.
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      Tess T on 12 Mar 12
       
      This is a super helpful and straight forward answer to the question "how can learning analytics improve education." You can't get any clearer that that!
  • Tess T on 12 Mar 12
     
    This source was written by George Siemens,who works in the Technology Enhanced Knowledge Research Institute at Athabasca University, and Phil Long, a Director of the Centre for Education Innovaton and Technology at the University of Queensland.  This site talks about how Analytics are used and what they are used for in Education
  • alliem_pphs on 14 Mar 12
     
    I really think this website can help anyone with a "foggy" idea of learning analytics.  Explains what to do with them above and beyond.  Woo hoo.
  • andrei gausling on 25 Mar 12
     
    This article is about how data mining and research can help make decisions. This process is using statistical information instead of using informal guessing. It is beginning to be used on a wide level including medicine , business , and social programs and schools. It also says that education most have a reform and learning anaylitcs will have the biggest impact in deciding what will change or what will be added. So many of the students now a days spends time on the internet with social media and this leaves a foot print which leaves data of how their learning process works. Learning anaylitics is important because it benefits administrative and student purposes.
Tess T

Academic Analytics: A New Tool for a New Era (EDUCAUSE Review) | EDUCAUSE - 0 views

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  • Analytics marries large data sets, statistical techniques, and predictive modeling. It could be thought of as the practice of mining institutional data to produce "actionable intelligence."
    • Tess T
      Tess T on 12 Mar 12
       
      so pretty much its saying gathering data, looking at the results, and doing something about it. Taking action
  • Many institutions have implemented analytics to improve enrollment management. Institutional researchers collaborating with admissions staff have created complex formulas—based on standardized exam scores, high school coursework, and other information—to determine which applicants will be admitted
  • With the increased concern for accountability, academic analytics has the potential to create actionable intelligence to improve teaching, learning, and student success. Traditionally academic systems—such as course management systems, student response systems, and similar tools—have generated a wide array of data that may relate to student effort and success. Early academic analytics initiatives are seeking to predict which students are in academic difficulty, allowing faculty and advisors to customize learning paths or provide instruction tailored to specific learning needs.
    • Tess T
      Tess T on 12 Mar 12
       
      For those of us doing customization as a topic, the key phrase in this paragraph is "allowing faculty and advisers to customize learning paths or provide instruction tailored to specific learning needs."
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  • Analytics generates a system alert for advisors to initiate an Individual Learning Plan (ILP)
  • Analytics can be a powerful tool for higher education
  • As the practice of analytics is refined, colleges and universities can place more and better information into the hands of a greater number of people, enabling informed decision-making.
  • the focus of future analytics efforts can shift from predicting who is going to be successful to customizing learning environments so that the most effective instructional approaches are used for each student. Eventually, institutions may be able to provide unique learning paths, matching instructional activities to a student's learning needs.
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      Tess T on 12 Mar 12
       
      This phrase is about customizing learning analytics!
    • Tess T
      Tess T on 12 Mar 12
       
      and it talks about how using learning analytics can help institutions customize unique learning activities to a students learning needs.
  • Tess T on 12 Mar 12
     
    This site completely talks about academic and learning analytics and gives specific examples of schools and colleges that use analytics to improve student education
Tess T

Learning Analytics - ETEC522-Social Analytics - 0 views

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  • Learning Analytics refers to the specific adaptation of social analytics tools to enhance teaching and learning.
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      Tess T on 12 Mar 12
       
      learning analytics helps to enhance student learning
  • learning analytics involves using a web analytics program, such as Google Analytics, to track students’ usage of their LMS and other digital learning objects, as one way to gauge learner engagement.
  • Educators can use this data to: help them make realtime decisions on how they might modify their course to better suit learners. Identify potential ‘at-risk’ students who may need an intervention in order to avoid failing a course module or an entire course.
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  • At this macro level, administrators at school and district levels use learning analytics to gauge students’ performance, and to compare how schools are performing vis a vis each other.
  • which measures schools’ overall performance through students’ performance on state standardized tests.
  • . SNAPP (Social Networks Advancing Pedagogical Practice) is one university-based learning analytics program (developed at the University of Wollongong in Australia) that analyses the social networks that form within learning management systems. SNAPP records statistics on not only which students participate on LMS’, and how frequently, but also pays close attention to which students respond to which students’ comments and posts, emerging leaders, whose posts are frequent and elicit much discussion, and outliers, who contribute little. Snapp also provides visualizations of these social networks to instructors and course administrators.
  • Tess T on 12 Mar 12
     
    This is a cool site that talks about learning analytics and gives some examples about how it can be used for education and how it improves student learning
Tess T

Learning Analytics and Personalized Learning - ETEC522-Social Analytics - 0 views

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  • Just as businesses use social analytics to suggest personalized options to consumers based on their buying habits, individual teachers can use learning analytics to help them develop adaptive, personalized learning plans for individual students.
  • The School of One program, in use in several New York City public schools, uses learning analytics to develop personalized mathematics learning programs. The School of One’s learning algorithm conducts everyday assessments of a student’s learning style and math skills, and uses this to produce a personalized learning “playlist” for each student. This playlist is comprised of individual lessons in math, which are put into the order that the algorithm determines is optimal for the student’s math skills development. Certainly, School of One is quick to note that this is intended to supplement, not to replace, an individual teacher’s expertise. Similarly to how Hunch focuses on social media analytics as a consumer service, other learning analytics programs are being developed for use by both learners and teachers to enhance individual learning. Socrato is one such program that is primarily intended for students preparing to write standardized multiple-choice tests. It performs learner analytics on students’ online practice tests to identify which areas students most need to improve upon.
  • Tess T on 13 Mar 12
     
    This is about personalized learning and how analytics can help that
Alexis Szmodis

elearnspace › What are Learning Analytics? - 0 views

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  • “the use of data and models to predict student progress and performance, and the ability to act on that information”.
  • Effective utilization of learning analytics can help schools and universities to pick up on signals that indicate difficulties with learner performance. Just as individuals communicate social intentions through signals well before they actually “think” they make a decision, learners signal success/failure in the learning process through reduced time on task, language of frustration (in LMS forums), long lag periods between logins, and lack of direct engagement with other learners or instructors.
  • ROBERTO D on 08 Mar 12
     
    Good prelimenary information about Learning Analytics.
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  • Tess T on 12 Mar 12
     
    This site gives some cool graphs and explains what Learning Analytics is. It uses Flow Charts that tell you how Learning Analytics Works.
  • stephanie jones on 13 Mar 12
     
    This article presents an overview of learning analytics and discusses how it might be applied in learning institutions.
  • Hayes G. on 13 Mar 12
     
    This article gives us an overview of learning analytics and talks about how they might be applied in schools.
  • Joy Lauer on 14 Mar 12
     
    This website shows charts to help describe what learning Analytics is. It doesn't just have the charts it also explains the charts.
  • zachc34 on 14 Mar 12
     
    This is a exact definition of learning analytics.
  • alliem_pphs on 14 Mar 12
     
    Once again, just more information about learning analytic's.
  • Alexis Szmodis on 04 Apr 12
     
    Definition and diagrams of Learning Analytics.
RachelA SVHS

Learning Analytics: How Data Provides Direction | PropertyCasualty360 - 0 views

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  • RachelA SVHS on 20 Mar 13
     
    This article provides a great overview of what learning and analytics is and how it applies to everyday life. It provides a great example of a car not functioning and how learning and analytics could help identify the problem with the car before the warning light even goes off. It is a good four pages all that contribute to the description of learning and analytics. This will really assist in discussing Don Tapscott's norms along with the learning and analytics topic. 
Joy Lauer

elearnspace › Learning Analytics 2011: Reflections - 0 views

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  • 1. Analytics will be huge in education and are coming faster than almost anyone can anticipate. 2. Analytics are growing in prominence in many different disciplines and from all parts of the education system. Researchers from different fields found shared space in the analytics discussion. Are analytics the “universal decoder” for education reform? 3. Ethics are going to be an enormous concern. We all acknowledged it. No clear way forward exists at this stage. 4. Analytics can be applied across the full spectrum of education: for teachers, learners, administrators, policy makers, and government officials. 5. Student success, based partly in adaptive and personal learning, is a substantial motivator for foundations, administrators, and politicians. Under various covers (college completion, accountability, increased institutional effectiveness) analytics will be appropriated to serve numerous ideals, causes, and visions. 6. Brace yourself for the usual hype cycle: analytics will be everything, they will cure all ails, they will transform education, they will [_____]. Purchase your Batman Consultant-Repellant spray now.
  • Joy Lauer on 14 Mar 12
     
    This shows 6 different things that are about Learning Analytics. 
zachc34

Learning analytics - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - 0 views

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  • Learning analytics is 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 [1]. A related field is educational data mining.
  • Learning analytics is the use of intelligent data,
  • zachc34 on 12 Mar 12
     
    Wikipedia's description of learning analytics.
  • Tess T on 12 Mar 12
     
    This is the Wikipedia site for Learning Analytics and gives some methods for using it
  • Courtney C on 13 Mar 12
     
    From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Learning analytics is 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 [1]. A related field is educational data mining. Work in progress: sociologists like Wellman and Watts...and mathematicians like Barabasi and Strogatz.
andrei gausling

How should I use "learning analytics"? - 1 views

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  • I’m taking a break from the BlendKit posts to reflect on this EDUCAUSE article: Penetrating the Fog: Analytics in Learning and Education. It caught my eye because I’ve been sitting on a hiring committee charged with finding a top-rate instructional designer to join the team working on hybrid and online courses at UC Davis. One of the questions we asked our candidates was about learning analytics–what they are and how one might use them in a hybrid or online class.
  • Courtney C on 13 Mar 12
     
    how learning analytics should be used
  • andrei gausling on 25 Mar 12
     
    In this article a teacher explains how she used learning analytics to help her class room. She started off using the LMS system which is a program that tracks the data of students like where they go and how on task they are. She mostly used this to grade not knowing the full uses of this process and concluded that in order for researching learning and analyzing them you need a whole education faculty on board. If the process of learning analytics is fully understood and used it possibilities are very high.
Courtney C

Learning Analytics: The Future is Now | wcet.wiche.edu - 0 views

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  • The 2011 Horizon Report lists learning analytics in the 4-5 year adoption horizon, but the rapid rise of analytics tools combined with the increasing demand for data-driven decision making may be pushing this horizon closer. Does your institution have a strategy for mining the wealth of information in your LMS, among other sources of data about teaching and learning activities? This presentation will cover a  range of examples where learning analytics are already being used to increase student engagement, improve pedagogical practices, and raise retention and success rates, particularly for at-risk students. The presenters will provide practical recommendations for applying learning analytics effectively at your institution.
  • Courtney C on 13 Mar 12
     
    how learning analytics affects the future
zachc34

Four to Five Years: Learning Analytics « 2011 Horizon Report - 1 views

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  • Learning analytics promises to harness the power of advances in data mining, interpretation, and modeling to improve understandings of teaching and learning, and to tailor education to individual students more effectively. Still in its early stages, learning analytics responds to calls for accountability on campuses across the country, and leverages the vast amount of data produced by students in day-to-day academic activities. While learning analytics has already been used in admissions and fund-raising efforts on several campuses, “academic analytics” is just beginning to take shape
  • Courtney C on 13 Mar 12
     
    horizon report
  • Joy Lauer on 14 Mar 12
     
    This website shows how Learning Analytics can help in different things, like School, and technology
  • zachc34 on 14 Mar 12
     
    This is the horizon report that the whole project is based on.
zachc34

Learning Analytics - 45 Resources | EDUCAUSE - 0 views

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  • According to the 2011 Horizon Report, learning analytics refers to “the interpretation of a wide range of data produced by and gathered on behalf of students in order to assess academic progress, predict future performance, and spot potential issues.” Below are articles, presentations and seminars that further discuss the growing use of learning analytics in higher education and the benefit student’s gain from it.
  • DANA E on 08 Mar 12
     
    Site with 45 resources regarding learning analytics. Includes publications, presentations and podcasts.
  • Courtney C on 13 Mar 12
     
    More learning analytics information
  • zachc34 on 14 Mar 12
     
    This is a vast bounty of learning analytics resources.
Courtney C

10 Tips to Learn Web Analytics | Learning Web Analytics - 0 views

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  • On the topic of web analytics careers, this is a reprint of an article about web analytics training that originally appeared at the WAA.  If you could start your career over, what would you do?
  • Courtney C on 13 Mar 12
     
    web analytics
andrei gausling

http://net.educause.edu/ir/library/pdf/ELIB1101.pdf - 1 views

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  • stephanie jones on 13 Mar 12
     
    This article discusses the current position of learning analytics in education, and how third party applications are beginning to make the tools more cost-effective.
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  • Hayes G. on 13 Mar 12
     
    This article talks about how learning analytics is used in education. It also discusses the ethics involved in learning analytics platforms.
  • Joy Lauer on 14 Mar 12
     
    This is another website that takes learning Analytics and applies it to different things. Like the audience and students
  • alliem_pphs on 14 Mar 12
     
    Talks about how learning analytics have come to stay in our world.
  • andrei gausling on 25 Mar 12
     
    This artical is good in explaining what learn analytics is and how it is used in a process. It says that learning analytics is to observe and understand learning behaviors in order to make a change. It starts as data collection. This is different methods and scripts to collect data. Then the data is analyzed. After that the supposedly find something to improve learning. After this they introduce this the the education system to get approval of use. And the last step is intervention where the new method starts or is in development to be integrated in the education for students.
Tess T

Learning Analytics: What Could You Do With Five Orders of Magnitude More Data About Lea... - 1 views

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  • Evidence from top-performing schools shows that use of data, analysis, and feedback are our best tools for improvement.
  • The increasing use of online software and digital devices in classrooms presents an opportunity to collect high-frequency data for mining. Today’s analytics techniques could be used to develop a deeper understanding of how students learn, recommend personalized learning plans, and identify early warning flags. Rich data, analytics, and feedback enable a process of iteration and continuous improvement, where educators become learners, and we figure out how to improve education. We are at the beginning of a wave of data-driven change in education, with important social consequences and fantastic opportunities.
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      Tess T on 15 Mar 12
       
      Key words about learning analytics: understanding, personalized learning plans, identify early warning signs. 
  • Tess T on 15 Mar 12
     
    This article about learning analytics talks about personalizing student learning and customizing lessons for students.  It also connects to a PDF file about what personalized learning looks like and how it helps students
chriso-pphs

Learning and Knowledge Analytics - Analyzing what can be connected - 0 views

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  • A few resources from the past month or so that might be of interest:
  • DANA E on 08 Mar 12
     
    Site that outlines how to implement learning analytics in the classroom.
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  • Courtney C on 13 Mar 12
     
    This is some knowledge on learning analytics
  • Joy Lauer on 14 Mar 12
     
    This website is very helpful. It describes Learning Analytics very well, and it also gives many other sources throughout this website that can help you out.
  • zachc34 on 14 Mar 12
     
    This is a very informative blog about learning analytics.
  • chriso-pphs on 06 Mar 13
     
    This is a video that talks all about learning analytics
andrei gausling

Knewton - the future of education? | Learning and Knowledge Analytics - 2 views

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  • During the learning analytics conference in Banff, several presenters mentioned the speed at which analytics are moving into policy level decisions in universities and schools. Malcolm Brown, from EDUCAUSE, made the statement that learning analytics “are moving faster than any of us realize”.
  • Hana Anderson on 14 Mar 12
     
    This site is just about Learning  Analytics but its very helpful
  • Tess T on 15 Mar 12
     
    This is actually a really cool site! it talks about  how fast learnign analytics is developing and how it works to improve education
  • andrei gausling on 25 Mar 12
     
    This artical talks about how leaning anayltics is rapidly increasing in use around in education. It says that the factors for this are business intelligence technology sector increase for accountability and increased entrepreneurial help for the education sector. Learning anaylitics is used to change the education system to a new more personal one that is better than the traditional ways now. Such attempts have brought up new education resources like online learning companies like Pearson who has created blackboard and other sections that collect data and create a new way of learning. The moodle also came out of the Idea for learning anaylics but still maintains a closed system that does not change or adapt.
Joy Lauer

What We Don't Know About Learning Analytics - 0 views

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  • Long-time e-Literate readers know that I have been a fan of the concept of learning analytics for a number of years now. But it became apparent at this year’s Learning Impact conference that learning analytics are the new hotness. Everybody is talking about them, and increasing numbers of vendors (LMS vendors, ERP vendors, textbook vendors, etc.) are trying to figure out how to get in on the party.
  • Courtney C on 13 Mar 12
     
    things we do not know about learning analytics
  • Joy Lauer on 14 Mar 12
     
    This is an overview of Learning Analytics. It even has a 10 min video about what it is.
MaxD SVHS

LAK 2013 | Site for the Learning Analytics conference series - 0 views

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  • chriso-pphs on 06 Mar 13
     
    Talks about a conference where you can read professorial papers on the subject of learning analytics.
  • MaxD SVHS on 19 Mar 13
     
    The homepage of this blog gives a brief overview of Learning Analytics and its goal, and also adresses questions about the "grey areas" within Learning Analytics.
RachelA SVHS

elearnspace › What are Learning Analytics? - 0 views

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  • RachelA SVHS on 20 Mar 13
     
    This article provides a great description of learning and analytics and could be used for any of the Don Tapscott norms. This source provides interesting visuals that attempt the explain the process of learning and analytics in numerous different ways. 
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