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- 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
- Analytics That Inform the University
- Effective Faculty Development through Strategies for Engagement and Satisfaction
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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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Data Analytics
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March 19, 2013
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A session at the Midwest Regional Conference
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Incorporating Data-Driven Decision-Making into Application Design
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March 19, 2013
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A session at the Midwest Regional Conference
Using the case of an electronic research administration system implementation, we will share some tips and tricks for incorporating considerations for data-driven decision making into application d…
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Faculty Reporting Systems: Expectations vs. Realities
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March 19, 2013
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A session at the Midwest Regional Conference
Faculty activity reporting systems are used to collect data regarding academic endeavors for promotion, merit, and reporting purposes. Recent attention on accountability, accreditation, and analyti…
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Using BI to Identify Revenue and Resource Reallocation
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March 18, 2013
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A session at the Midwest Regional Conference
Like most institutions of higher education, Miami University is facing increasing financial pressures and demands. Miami University has decided to develop a new budget model that will result in the…
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Understanding and Managing the Risks of Analytics
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March 18, 2013
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A session at the Midwest Regional Conference
This presentation will offer an introduction to the major risk categories faced by a higher education institution considering investments in time, energy, and money in analytics work. Under the rig…
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Transforming an Institution Through Analytics
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January 12, 2012
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A session at the Mid-Atlantic Regional Conference 2012
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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The Academic Planner, a Tool for Planning Successful Academic Careers
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January 13, 2011
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A session at the Mid-Atlantic Regional Conference 2011
Students' satisfaction with their academic environment is in part related to ease of access to information and an ability to communicate with those involved in their academic decision making. …
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Mining User Data: Getting the Most Out of Your CMS
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January 15, 2008
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A session at the EDUCAUSE Mid-Atlantic Regional Conference 2008
Learn how Hofstra University and the University of Maryland, Baltimore County, developed custom reports to shine light on how students and faculty are using Blackboard as well as what they are doin…
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Enterprise Reporting and Business Intelligence: A Practical Solution Using Data Warehousing Firepower and Cognos 8 Refinement
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January 17, 2007
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A session at the EDUCAUSE Mid-Atlantic Regional Conference 2007
Dickinson's enterprise resource planning environment and goals in implementing a reporting and business intelligence function will be described, as well as information flow from transactional …
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Tracking Student Progress in an ERP Environment to Satisfy Complex NCATE Reporting Requirements
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January 18, 2007
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A session at the EDUCAUSE Mid-Atlantic Regional Conference 2007
Coppin State University uses iStrategy's higher education analytics application to satisfy complex NCATE accreditation reporting requirements. This presentation will discuss the use of deliver…
