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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
- 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
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- 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.
Library Items on this Topic
EDUCAUSE Library Items for Analytics
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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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Visualizing Math: How Intelligent Tutoring Technology Can Help Math-Challenged Students
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December 15, 2010
Key Takeaways Many students who struggle with basic mathematics courses benefit from digital instructional technologies, including additional visual and supplemental materials on difficult …
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Video Demo of UMBC's "Check My Activity" Tool for Students
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December 15, 2010
Key Takeaways Can technology support student learning by raising self-awareness? To find out, the University of Maryland, Baltimore County built a "Check My Activity" (CMA) to…
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The Science of Education: Creating a Compelling Learning Experience
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October 15, 2010
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A session at the EDUCAUSE 2010 Annual Conference
The next innovation in higher education is a cloud-based EaaS (education as a service) platform, a learning platform that learns. The best principles have been operationalized and, by using an empi…
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Show Them the Data: How Publishing Course Usage Stats Can Change Faculty Support (Research-based)
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January 29, 2008
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A session at the ELI Annual Meeting 2008
UMBC has published online reports showing by discipline and by instructor which Blackboard courses are most active. Initial feedback suggests that regularly publishing these simple but effective re…
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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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The Grand Challenge: Using Analytics to Predict Student Success
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October 25, 2007
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A session at the EDUCAUSE 2007 Annual Conference
EDUCAUSE has identified analytics as one of the grand challenges for 2007. This session will share an analysis of data collected from over 30,000 students using a course management system and will …
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Top-Ten Teaching and Learning Issues, 2007
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July 30, 2007
Current Issues Top-Ten Teaching and Learning Issues, 2007 Creating a culture of evidence tops the list of important issues as the academic technology profession moves to an "Instructio…
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The Grand Challenge: Using Analytics to Predict Student Success
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March 13, 2007
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A session at the EDUCAUSE Midwest Regional Conference 2007
Analytics has been identified as one of the EDUCAUSE grand challenges for 2007. This session will share an analysis of data collected from over 30,000 students using a course management system and …
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The Grand Challenge: Using Analytics to Predict Student Success
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January 22, 2007
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A session at the ELI Annual Meeting 2007
EDUCAUSE has identified analytics as one of the grand challenges for 2007. The session will share an analysis of data collected from more than 30,000 students using a course management system and e…
