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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
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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
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- Penetrating the Fog: Analytics in Learning and Education
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- 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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Sherpa: Increasing Student Success with a Recommendation Engine
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November 8, 2012
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A session at the EDUCAUSE Annual Conference 2012
Students flock to online services like Amazon, Pandora, and Netflix that offer personalized recommendations, a stark contrast from the "one size fits all" services in higher education. …
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Using Predictive Analytics to Improve Student Success - Sponsored by IHD ServiceDesk
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November 7, 2012
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A session at the EDUCAUSE Annual Conference 2012
As provost of a regional university, Tristan Denley has pioneered a wide variety of initiatives to improve college completion and students' academic success. These ideas stretch from institu…
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Data to Dashboards: Creating and Using Analytics
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October 20, 2011
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A session at the EDUCAUSE 2011 Annual Conference
Data-informed decision making is deeply permeated in the culture at Montgomery County Community College. This session will identify the people, processes, and tools that need to be in place for a s…
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From Data Warehouse to Business Intelligence: Paradigm Shift or Simply a New Set of Tools?
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October 21, 2011
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A session at the EDUCAUSE 2011 Annual Conference
Today's analytical environment keeps getting more and more complex, with data being stored everywhere. Data-driven organizations rely heavily on this data for decision making. This interactive…
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Redesign of the Core Data Service
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October 13, 2010
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A session at the EDUCAUSE 2010 Annual Conference
A key member service since 2002, CDS takes on a new form in January 2011, with revisions to all four components: survey content, interinstitutional data access, appropriate use policy, and annual s…
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Capturing Student Intent to Enhance Institutional Effectiveness
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October 13, 2010
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A session at the EDUCAUSE 2010 Annual Conference
Is your institution tracking students from entry to exit or whether they plan to attend next semester? Pima Community College developed an innovative process to capture student educational goal and…
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Designing Data Resources and Business Intelligence for Service-Oriented Solutions
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November 6, 2009
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A session at the EDUCAUSE 2009 Annual Conference
In a service-oriented architecture, dynamic data structures and service design allow for greater specificity or "tailoring" of data. The structural difference in SOA-generated data create…
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Making the Grade with Business Intelligence
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November 4, 2009
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A session at the EDUCAUSE 2009 Annual Conference
San Jacinto College implemented business intelligence technology as a way to extract data from its ERP system and to provide critical reports on the student population to executives in a timely man…
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Cognos, an IBM Company, An EDUCAUSE Silver Partner - The Evolution of Business Intelligence at the University of North Texas
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October 30, 2008
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A session at the EDUCAUSE 2008 Annual Conference
Learn how the University of North Texas, a 33,000-plus student university, underwent a fundamental business transformation and significantly streamlined its reporting process from creation to deliv…
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Using Business Intelligence to Gain a Strategic Advantage in College Admissions
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October 24, 2007
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A session at the EDUCAUSE 2007 Annual Conference
Florida State University has used business intelligence to reengineer much of our admissions processes, including decision processing, back-office workflow, data auditing, and reporting. Leveraging…
