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

  • 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
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      Number two talks about customizing learning through analytics by  recognizing at-risk learners and helping them learn better.
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      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.
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      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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      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
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      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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      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!
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    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
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    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.
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    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.
MadelineH SVHS

8 Ways Technology Is Improving Education - 0 views

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    improving education with technology
Tess T

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

  • 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."
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      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.
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      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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      This phrase is about customizing learning analytics!
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      and it talks about how using learning analytics can help institutions customize unique learning activities to a students learning needs.
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    This site completely talks about academic and learning analytics and gives specific examples of schools and colleges that use analytics to improve student education
zachc34

Learning Analytics and Reports to Improve Learning Outcomes | Lambda Solutions Moodle P... - 0 views

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    This site talks about improving learning analytics.
Tess T

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

  • 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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      Key words about learning analytics: understanding, personalized learning plans, identify early warning signs. 
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    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
Susan D

simSchool - About - 1 views

  • simSchool is a classroom simulation that supports the rapid accumulation of a teacher's experience in analyzing student differences, adapting instruction to individual learner needs, gathering data about the impacts of instruction, and seeing the results of their teaching.
  • improvement in general teaching skill improved confidence in using technology increased belief that the teacher has the skills and ability to make a difference in a child's life improvement in pre-service teachers' performance in teacher preparation courses and attitudes toward inclusion of special needs students significant positive impact on the mastery of deeper learning capacities that comprise the readiness to teach increased "staying power" on the path to the field of teaching acquired through rapid development of strong self-efficacy and resilience
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    simSchool is a simulated classroom that supports rapid accumulation of a teacher's experience in analyzing student differences, adapting instruction to individual learning needs, gathering data about the impacts of instruction, and seeing the results of their teaching. This is a place where instructors can explore instructional strategies, examine classroom management techniques, and practice building relationships with students that will translate into increased learning. The results are highlighted below and are proved to be real and measurable.
tonyv-pphs

Wireless Tablet PCs Increase Collaborative Learning for Students - 0 views

  • This vision focused on improved interaction between teachers and students
  • , catering to multiple learning styles, in addition to enhancing the delivery and comprehension of increasingly complicated ideas
  • Working within the constraints of budget and course content requirements
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  • it became increasingly clear that some students responded to classroom technology differently than others
  • technology-savvy students readily utilized the IT assets to improve participation and comprehension, less comfortable students often hid behind their computer screens, using desktop PCs as barriers to interaction rather than as tools for collaboration
  • desktops were the perfect hiding place
  • participation of our students
  • classroom collaboration
  • Hinsdale assessed the transition to wireless Tablet PCs to improve classroom collaboration and learning
  • the best technology for the classroom.
  • create an interactive atmosphere between teachers and students, and facilitate a learning environment for all students,
  • activities they weren’t able to do before?and in a much more collaborative setting.”
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    This page describes how tablets increase collaboration skills between students, and with teachers.
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    This describes a research done in 1999 by a Doctor in Hinsdale. His research allowed for him to realized that people responded differently to technology in the classroom.
tonyv-pphs

Tablet PC's Improve Collaboration in the Classroom - 0 views

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    This describes how table PC's helped a classroom in Cabrillo High School.
lgliebman

» Gamification in Education: Epic Win, or Epic Fail? - 0 views

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    this site discusses the improvements gamification can do to learning and education 
trevor_stone91

Educational Technology in ELT: 10 Free Digital Game-Based Learning Resources for Englis... - 0 views

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    This website talks about how digital game based learning and how it can improve education.
Tess T

Revolutionize Education using learning analytics - 2 views

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    This PDF file is ALL ABOUT how learning analytics can make education so much better. It pretty much just lists all the things that learning analytics can do to improve student learning
Tess T

Learning Analytics - ETEC522-Social Analytics - 0 views

  • Learning Analytics refers to the specific adaptation of social analytics tools to enhance teaching and learning.
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      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.
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    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
alliem_pphs

Assessment and Analytics in Institutional Transformation (EDUCAUSE Review) | EDUCAUSE - 0 views

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    Talking about how analytics can improve education, and even the world.
Sarah Bandy

Internet and Education:Findings the Pew Internet - 1 views

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    This talks about how it improves students schoolwork and that the internet helps as a communication device because they use the instant message to work with other schools and students.
Ariele Ea

Gamification - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - 0 views

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    this site has the defintion of gamification and applications for gamification
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    Wiki page on Gamification
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    Gamification is the use of game thinking and game mechanics in a non-game context in order to engage users and solve problems. Gamification is used in applications and processes to improve user engagement, Return on Investment, data quality, timeliness, and learning.
tonyv-pphs

Future Tech 2013 - 0 views

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    This describes the possible future of Tablet Computing and how it is constantly changing and improving.
Candice Z_SVHS

Bionics: Wearable Tech Encounters of the Third Kind - 0 views

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    This article explains how prevalent Wearable technology has become along with the major efforts it has made to improve medicine and help teach medical students and professional about things such as blindness and the central nervous system. Wearable technology offers an alternative teaching technique to students and experts.
Courtney C

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

  • 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.
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    how learning analytics affects the future
Tess T

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

  • 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.
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    This is about personalized learning and how analytics can help that
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