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Culture and Process
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
- Game Changers
- 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
Governance and Infrastructure
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Governance and Infrastructure
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Governance and Infrastructure
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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
- Using Analytics for Institutional Transformation
Governance and Infrastructure
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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.
Library Items on this Topic
EDUCAUSE Library Items for Analytics
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How the IT Department Can Drive Business Intelligence Strategies to Boost Efficiency and Cut Costs
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March 9, 2010
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A session at the NERCOMP Annual Conference 2010
In a time when efficiencies and cost savings are a major concern, colleges and universities continue to justify every dollar spent and ensure they are generating the highest return on investment. A…
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ELI Online Spring Focus Session: Register Now
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March 2, 2012
Learning analytics (LA) is the collection and analysis of data associated with student learning. Although still emergent, learning analytics is a rapidly expanding area of research and a p…
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Signals: Applying Academic Analytics
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March 3, 2010
Key Takeaways Applying the principles of business intelligence analytics to academia promises to improve student success, retention, and graduation rates and demonstrate institutional accou…
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Tune In March 5 -- The Horizon Report in Action: Emerging Technologies Today and Tomorrow
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February 27, 2012
During this free hour-long session, “ The Horizon Report in Action: Emerging Technologies Today and Tomorrow ,” Malcolm Brown and Veronica Diaz of the EDUCAUSE Learning Initiative will…
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Using Analytics to Intervene with Underperforming College Students (Innovative Practice)
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January 20, 2010
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A session at the ELI Annual Meeting 2010
Data mining is typically associated with business and marketing. For example, Amazon uses people's past purchases to suggest books they might be interested in buying. Similarly, academic ana…
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EDUCAUSE Now - #48 - 1) Using Metrics 2) Indiana University's E-Text Program
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February 9, 2012
Subscribe to the EDUCAUSE NOW RSS feed This episode of EDUCAUSE Now features: Using Metrics (:35-5:08) Using metrics is crucial to the success of your organization . B…
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ELI Releases New White Paper on Analytics in Higher Education
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February 1, 2012
ELI has released a new white paper, Analytics in Higher Education: Establishing a Common Language , by Angela van Barneveld, Kimberly Arnold, and John P. Campbell, Purdue University…
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Revitalizing Data Stewardship through Risk Reduction: Managing Sensitive Data at the University of Virginia
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December 1, 2009
The 2009 ECAR study Institutional Data Management in Higher Education , by Ronald Yanosky, examines how higher education institutions are facing the challenges of institutional data management…
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Institutional Data Management in Higher Education Roadmap
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December 1, 2009
This ECAR roadmap synthesizes the important issues and recommended actions drawn from the study Institutional Data Management in Higher Education , by Ronald Yanosky. The study examines the po…
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Institutional Data Management in Higher Education
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December 1, 2009
Abstract This 2009 ECAR study of institutional data management examines the policies and practices by which higher education institutions effectively collect, protect, and use digital informat…
