Academic Analytics

• The Open University of Hong Kong: The i-Counseling System
  Chun Ming Leung and Eva Tsang
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• Valencia College: LifeMap and Atlas—Planning for Success
  Joyce C. Romano and Bill White
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• From Metrics to Analytics, Reporting to Action: Analytics' Role in Changing the Learning Environment
  Linda Baer and John Campbell
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Other Resources on Academic Analytics include:

• Analytics in Higher Education: Establishing a Common Language, ELI White Paper, January 2012. The intent of this paper is to present the different descriptions of the various types of analytics being discussed in the academic and practitioner literature.
• 7 Things You Should Know About Analytics. EDUCAUSE 7 Things You Should Know series, April 2010. This two page brief provides a description of analytics and how these data tools provide statistical evaluation of rich data sources to discern patterns that can help individuals at companies, educational institutions, or governments make more informed decisions.
• Academic Analytics. EDUCAUSE White Paper, October 2007.  Authors Diana G. Oblinger and John P. Campbell highlight what IT and institutional leaders need to understand about academic analytics, including changes it may require in data standards, systems, processes, policies, and institutional culture.
• Action Analytics: Measuring and Improving Performance That Matters in Higher Education. EDUCAUSE Review, Volume 43, Number 1, January/February 2008.  This article discusses the action analytics of the future that will better assess students’ competencies. The authors explain that by using individualized planning, advising, and best practices from cradle to career, action analytics solutions will align interventions to facilitate retention and transitions and will fully maximize learners’ success.
• Academic Analytics: A New Tool for a New Era. ELI Web Seminar, October 8, 2007.  Audio and slides from the presentation. The session will be based on an article [PDF 601 KB] published in the July/August 2007 EDUCAUSE Review by John Campbell, Peter DeBlois, and Diana Oblinger. The speaker John Campbell explores the role of IT in analytics projects while highlighting some early projects.
• Academic Analytics: The Uses of Management Information and Technology in Higher Education. ECAR Research Study Volume 8, 2005.  The following chapters specifically discuss using learning analytics to increase student retention and monitor student academic success.
  • Chapter 7, Advanced Applications of Academic Analytics (Page 76, Student Services)
  • Chapter 9, Academic Analytics in the Future of Higher Education
• Doing Academic Analytics Right: Intelligent Answers to Simple Questions. ECAR Research Bulletin, Number 2, 2011. This ECAR research bulletin explores the various factors that must come together for an institution to have an academic analytics infrastructure that is flexible, agile, appropriately structured, and cost-effective. It examines not only appropriate technologies but, more importantly, the critical roles that stakeholders and governance play in setting the stage for success.
• Opening the Door to New Possibilities Through the Use of Analytics. EDUCAUSE Learning Initiative, Annual Conference, February 2011. This session will explore some of the uses of analytics and the challenges institutions will face in the upcoming years.
• Signals: Applying Academic Analytics. EDUCAUSE Quarterly, Volume 33, Number 1, 2010.  This article describes the Signals project at Purdue University, which has delivered early successes in academic analytics, prompting additional projects and new strategies.
• Using Analytics to Intervene with Underperforming College Student. EDUCAUSE Learning Initiative, Annual Conference, January 20, 2010.  This is a video recording of a presentation.

Updated July 2012