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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
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- Enabling the Data-Driven University
- Efficiencies, Learning Outcomes Bolstered by Analytics, Data-Informed Decision Making
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- 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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- 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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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…
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Openness, Learning Analytics, and Continuous Quality Improvement
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February 15, 2011
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A session at the ELI Annual Meeting 2011
The primary purpose of educators is to help people improve in some way. In a deep and overarching way, the second purpose of educators should be to improve our ability to educate. "Openness&qu…
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A Case for Leveraging the Online Grade Book (Research-Based)
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February 15, 2011
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A session at the ELI Annual Meeting 2011
Research shows students value checking grades and accessing practice quizzes more than any other function in a course management system, yet few instructors use these online "killer apps"…
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Turning the Tide Five Years of Achieving the Dream in Community Colleges
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February 10, 2011
In 2004, Lumina Foundation for Education launched “Achieving the Dream: Community Colleges Count,” a national initiative aimed at improving success among community college students, particula…
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Learning Analytics: A Foundation for Informed Change in Higher Education
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January 10, 2011
Higher education faces numerous challenges in improving teaching and learning, funding research, and increasing accountability, completion rates, and global competitiveness. Making effective deci…
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Immersive Feedback to Improve Student Learning
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March 15, 2011
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A session at the EDUCAUSE Midwest Regional Conference 2011
Engaging students and providing immersive, meaningful feedback through assessment is the key to enhancing students' learning experiences and success in the classroom. Business communication st…
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What Do We Know About the Quality of Higher Learning in the United States?
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October 4, 2010
In this session we’ll discuss what we know about the quality of higher learning in the United States. Specifically, we’ll explore the types of evidence of student learning that can be used to…
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Implementing a Blended Learning Approach: Factors Influencing Students' Academic Outcomes
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September 15, 2010
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A session at the ELI 2010 Online Fall Focus Session
Often there is an assumption that the flexibility provided by technology will enhance learning and outcomes for students. However, research often shows that such advances offer little or no benef…
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Seminar 10A - Using CMS Activity of Good Students to Raise Awareness of Underperforming Peers
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October 12, 2010
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A session at the EDUCAUSE 2010 Annual Conference
Increasingly, many institutions are using IT in a way known as "academic analytics." Typically associated with business, analytics is now being used in higher education to identify studen…
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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…
