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Governance, Infrastructure and Policy
- Building Organizational Capacity for Analytics
- Policy Implications of Big Data Analytics
- Policy Dimensions of Analytics in Higher Education
- Understanding and Managing the Risks of Analytics in Higher Education: A Guide
- Making the Case for Analytics
- Findings of the Expert Panel on Analytics
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- Understanding and Managing the Risks of Analytics
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- Enabling the Data-Driven University
- Efficiencies, Learning Outcomes Bolstered by Analytics, Data-Informed Decision Making
- Analytics in Support of Student Retention and Success
- Two Case Studies of Learner Analytics in the University System of Maryland
- Building a Purpose Network to Increase Student Engagement and Retention
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- Analytics in Progress: Technology Use, Student Characteristics, and Student Achievement
- Sprint, Day 2 Brief: Analytics for teaching, Learning and Student Success
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- Effective Faculty Development through Strategies for Engagement and Satisfaction
- Using Analytics for Institutional Transformation
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- Penetrating the Fog: Analytics in Learning and Education
- Coaching Reports Support Customized Study Plans
- Signals: Using Academic Analytics to Promote Student Success
- Beyond Retention: Using Targeted Analytics to Improve Student Success
- Bootstrapping your Analytics
- Discovering the Impact of Library Use and Student Performance
- Using Analytics for Institutional Transformation
Analytics is used in a higher education environment to analyze various collected data points to gain insight and make informed decisions about complex issues. Specific areas include academic analytics, business intelligence, and learning analytics. EDUCAUSE offers a wide range of resources on this expansive topic in various formats. Recent EDUCAUSE Resources on Analytics include;
- 2012 ECAR Study of Analytics in Higher Education, August 2012. This report takes an in-depth look at the current state of analytics in higher education, outlines the challenges and barriers to using analytics, and assesses progress in analytics, providing recommendations for development.
- The entire issue of EDUCAUSE Review Online, July/August 2012 is devoted to the topic of analytics in higher education. Subjects explored include how the use of analytics can help address higher education accountability, affordability, productivity, and student success.
- EDUCAUSE Analytics Sprint, July 24-26, 2012. This was a free, online experience consisting of online activities and resources, webinars, and discussions on analytics.
- Research and Data Services for Higher Education Information Technology: Past, Present, and Future, EDUCAUSE Review, November/December 2011. The author discusses how higher education IT data needs to go beyond descriptive analysis to new ways of using data and research to align IT strategy with institutional strategy, plan new services and initiatives, manage existing services, and operate the IT organization on a daily basis.
- Analytics Today: Getting Smarter About Emerging Technology, Diverse Students, and the Completion Challenge, EDUCAUSE Annual Conference, October 19, 2011. This video provides an overview of the increased use of blended learning, mobile learning, gaming, personal learning networks, augmented reality in higher education. And asks pointedly that If we want these technology "power tools" to have a real and lasting impact on the challenges of college completion, then anchoring these efforts in on-target analytics that serve not only policy but also core practice will be essential.
- The issue of EDUCAUSE Review Magazine, September/October 2011 spotlights the topic of analytics in higher education. Featured articles include;
- Assessment and Analytics in Institutional Transformation, This article discusses how assessment and analytics, supported by information technology, can change institutional culture and drive the transformation in student retention, graduation, and success.
- Penetrating the Fog: Analytics in Learning and Education, The authors explain how learning analytics can penetrate the fog of uncertainty around how to allocate resources, develop competitive advantages, and improve the quality and value of the learning experience.
- Seeking Evidence of Impact: Opportunities and Needs, The ELI SEI program is working with the teaching and learning community to gather evidence of the impact of instructional innovations and current practices and to help evaluate the results.
- Analytics Rising: IT's Role in Informing Higher Education Decisions, ECAR Research Bulletin, May 2011. This ECAR research bulletin describes how CIOs and other IT leaders, through a focus on analytics, can work together with other institutional groups to provide clear and meaningful information for decision makers across all institutional levels.
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EDUCAUSE Library Items for Analytics
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House Cmte. Passes Bill on Higher Ed. Data Transparency
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May 16, 2013
On a bipartisan voice vote that took place in record time yesterday, the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Education and the Workforce approved sending the "Improving Postsecondar…
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Hallmarks of the Breakthrough Models, #2: Student Support
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January 23, 2013
Editor’s Note: This post is the second in a series from Next Generation Learning Challenges (NGLC). Each post highlights a distinguishing design characteristic of NGLC’s recently funded Bre…
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Comment on U.S. Dept. of Ed. Learning/Academic Analytics Report
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January 4, 2013
The U.S. Department of Education has released a request for public input on a new report, Expanding Evidence Approaches for Learning in a Digital World , addressing how institutions…
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The Importance of Doing Enterprise (and Infrastructure)
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October 17, 2012
...as Oscar Wilde well might have titled an essay about campus-wide IT, had there been such a thing back then. Enterprise IT it accounts for the lion's share of campus IT staffing, expenditu…
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Enterprise Analytics: Taking Business Intelligence in New Directions
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July 27, 2012
Business intelligence (BI) is not new to enterprise IT organizations, which have long provided departments with access to production data to help run their areas. Enterprise analytics, however, t…
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EDUCAUSE Analytics Sprint, Day 3 Recap: Analytics for Enterprise Efficiency and Effectiveness
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July 26, 2012
Thursday, the third and final day of the EDUCAUSE Analytics Sprint. Today we heard about enterprise-level activities to support analytics at the University of Washington (UW) and at Arizona…
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EDUCAUSE Analytics Sprint, Day 2 Recap: Analytics for Teaching, Learning, and Student Success
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July 25, 2012
The focus of today’s Sprint activities moved from general issues for higher education into the area of teaching and learning, an area that seemed to strike participants as either the most…
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Navigating the Waters of Learning Analytics
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July 24, 2012
Malcolm Brown, Director , and Veronica Diaz, Associate Director, EDUCAUSE Learning Initiative Navigating the waters of learning analytics (LA) requires steering a careful course between…
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EDUCAUSE Analytics Sprint, Day 1 Recap: What Does Analytics Mean for Higher Education?
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July 24, 2012
The EDUCAUSE Analytics Sprint kicked off today, with the theme “What Does Analytics Mean for Higher Education?” A broad question, indeed, reflected in the wide-ranging comments and disc…
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The analytics journey is not for the faint of heart
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July 23, 2012
We learn much from spectacular success but we learn even more from failure. Such is the case with the use of analytics in both the public and private sectors. Education is no exception. Most edu…
