This article explains the point and purpose of researching how someone learns or operates and using that to create a system that helps people work or operate better. It talks about how if learning analytics is used right the expenses put in while be worth it for the outputs. In this article they put learning analylitics as analyze design develop implement, and evaluate.

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.

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.

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.

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.