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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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2012 ECAR Study of Analytics in Higher Education Infographic
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June 22, 2012
The objectives of this research were to assess the current state of analytics in higher education, outline the challenges and barriers to using analytics, and develop a maturity index to provide …
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IT Infrastructure to Support Analytics: Laying the Groundwork for Institutional Analytics
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October 23, 2012
Analytics has become a hot topic in the educational community, and several key questions must be addressed concerning the infrastructure of an analytics program. These issues include the …
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Touchstone Education: Merit Prep Newark
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November 28, 2012
The model for this 6-12 charter school located in Newark, NJ hinges on six key values: achievement, innovation, excellence, teamwork, urgency, and integrity , and attempts to maximize the be…
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Hallmarks of the Breakthrough Models, #2: Student Support
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January 23, 2013
Editor’s Note: This post is the second in a series from Next Generation Learning Challenges (NGLC). Each post highlights a distinguishing design characteristic of NGLC’s recently funded Bre…
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Analytics: What We're Hearing
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November 1, 2012
Diana G. Oblinger is President and CEO of EDUCAUSE. This is the second in a three-article EDUCAUSE Review series exploring analytics. Over the last few months, EDUCAUSE has…
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Data Analytics and Visualization: An Interdisciplinary Tool for Teaching and Learning STEM
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January 18, 2013
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A session at the Mid-Atlantic Regional Conference
Data analytics and visualization can be a valuable teaching tool in the analysis of quantitative as well as qualitative data. Moreover, the techniques involved can be applied as an interdisciplin…
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Implementing Analytics: Incorporating Subject Matter Experts from the Campus Community through a Work-Group Process
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January 17, 2013
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A session at the Mid-Atlantic Regional Conference
Higher education analytics implementations are complex and have a set of issues that are nearly unique to the particular purpose of analytical systems. This interactive session will explore strat…
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Business Analysis in Higher Education IT
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January 17, 2013
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A session at the Mid-Atlantic Regional Conference
Computing and Communications Services at the University of Guelph created a Business Analyst Practice as part of its strategic approach to an integrated IT support model on campus. This presentat…
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Big Data for Education: Data Mining, Data Analytics, and Web Dashboards
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September 13, 2012
In this Brookings Institution report, author Darrell West, examines the potential for improved research, evaluation, and accountability through data mining, data analytics, and web dashboards. …
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Enterprise IT, E-Learning, and Transformation: Prospects in Higher Education
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October 3, 2012
Which way to Millinocket? " Well, you can go west to the next intersection ," a Mainer explains, ". . . get onto the turnpike, go north through the toll gate at Augusta, �…
