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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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- 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
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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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Virtualization Increases Institutional Knowledge of Student Learning Activities
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July 18, 2012
Abelardo Pardo is Associate Professor at the University Carlos III of Madrid. Key Takeaways By asking students to install a virtual appliance (a computer within…
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The Oregon DATA Project: Building a Culture of Data Literacy
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July 18, 2012
Mickey Garrison is Director of Data Literacy for the Oregon Department of Education, and Megan Monson is the Communications Director for ODE's Direct Access to Achie…
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Building a Purpose Network to Increase Student Engagement and Retention
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August 13, 2012
Katie Lynch-Holmes is Director of Product Innovation at ConnectEDU and Tisa Mason is Vice President for Student Affairs at Fort Hays State University. Key Takeaways …
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DataMASTER: Success and Failure on a Journey to Business Intelligence
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July 18, 2012
Sharon E. Blanton is Associate Vice President and CIO at Portland State University. Key Takeaways The legacy reporting system at Portland State University often c…
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Building a Performance Analytics Environment
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July 18, 2012
Jeffrey Cepull is Vice President for Information Resources and CIO, Rashmi Radhakrishnan is Associate Vice President for Information Resources and Director of Administrative Comp…
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Efficiencies, Learning Outcomes Bolstered by Analytics, Data-Informed Decision Making
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July 18, 2012
Alana J. Mauger is Director of Communications, Celeste Schwartz is Vice President for Information Technology and College Services, and Stephen Grieco is Dean …
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Enabling the Data-Driven University
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August 13, 2012
Gordon Wishon is CIO and John Rome is Deputy CIO and BI Strategist at Arizona State University. Key Takeaways An enterprise data warehouse serves as…
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Understanding and Managing the Risks of Analytics in Higher Education: A Guide
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June 29, 2012
This guide provides an introduction to the major risk categories faced by a higher education institution considering investments in time, energy, and money in analytics work . Under the ri…
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On "Trak": First Steps in Learning Analytics
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July 18, 2012
Susan Tull is a Flexible Learning Advisor at the University of Canterbury. Key Takeaways A current focus at the University of Canterbury is to develop a cultu…
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Improving Retention by Identifying and Supporting "At-Risk" Students
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July 18, 2012
Annika Wolff is a Research Associate and Zdenek Zdrahal is a Senior Research Fellow at the Knowledge Media Institute, The Open University. Key Takeaways Without the…
