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- Building Organizational Capacity for Analytics
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- Policy Dimensions of Analytics in Higher Education
- Understanding and Managing the Risks of Analytics in Higher Education: A Guide
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- Enabling the Data-Driven University
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- Two Case Studies of Learner Analytics in the University System of Maryland
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- Analytics in Progress: Technology Use, Student Characteristics, and Student Achievement
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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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Using Analytics at UMBC: Encouraging Student Responsibility and Identifying Effective Course Designs
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April 30, 2013
Higher education invests considerable resources into technology for academic purposes, but understanding whether those instructional technologies improve learning is often a difficult questio…
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Increasing Student Success: Evaluating the Effectiveness of U-Pace Instruction at UWM
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September 6, 2012
Two faculty at the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee developed the technology-enabled instructional approach known as U-Pace , which combines self-paced, mastery-based learning with in…
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Chapter 15: The Open Learning Initiative: Enacting Instruction Online
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May 2, 2012
A chapter from Game Changers Ross Strader and Candace Thille This chapter is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License New technologies are oft…
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Using Learner Analytics to Identify and Promote Effective Teaching Practices
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April 11, 2012
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A session at the ELI 2012 Online Spring Focus Session
UMBC's most active LMS course requires students to pass preclass quizzes before accessing and submitting later assignments. Consequently, student activity has skyrocketed, and scores are 20%…
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7 Things You Should Know About First-Generation Learning Analytics
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December 6, 2011
Learning analytics (LA) applies the model of analytics to the specific goal of improving learning outcomes. LA collects and analyzes the “digital breadcrumbs” that students leave as th…
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Seeking Evidence of Impact: Opportunities and Needs
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September 12, 2011
Malcolm B. Brown ( mbrown@educause.edu ) is Director and Veronica Diaz ( vdiaz@educause.edu ) is Associate Director of the EDUCAUSE Learning Initiative (ELI). Comments on this article …
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Seeking Evidence for Impact: Lessons from the Inter/National Coalition for Electronic Portfolio Research
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July 11, 2011
Since 2003, the Inter/National Coalition for Electronic Portfolio Research has convened research teams from 60 campuses in five countries to research the impact of e-portfolios on learning and…
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Clickers in the Classroom: Transforming Students into Active Learners
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July 5, 2011
This research bulletin discusses a program at the University of South Carolina to implement SRSs in the classroom and to study the impacts that the technology has on student outcomes. In our…
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Course Signals: A Student Success System/Stoplights for Student Success
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October 19, 2011
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A session at the EDUCAUSE 2011 Annual Conference
Purdue University developed Course Signals (CS), a student success system that identifies academic and behavioral issues early and notifies students and instructors soon enough that a recommended c…
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Assessing Impact: Approaches and Designs for Answering Practical Questions About Technology Implementation
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April 13, 2011
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A session at the ELI 2011 Online Spring Focus Session
Beginning with the framing of researchable questions, this presentation will review a variety of quantitative and qualitative methods that can be used to investigate the impact of technology on t…
