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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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Analytics, Nudges, and Learner Persistence
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July 18, 2012
Jill Frankfort and Kenneth Salim are co-founders of Persistence Plus. Colleen Carmean is Assistant Chancellor for Instructional Technologies, and Tracey Hayni…
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Using Analytics for Institutional Transformation
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September 5, 2012
Key Takeaways To achieve its strategic goals, UMBC realized it needed to become a more data-driven institution by deploying more sophisticated tools and procedures to help staf…
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Discovering the Impact of Library Use and Student Performance
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July 18, 2012
Brian Cox is Manager Quality and Marketing, and Margie Jantti is University Librarian at the University of Wollongong Library. Key Takeaways Without a vali…
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Beyond Retention: Using Targeted Analytics to Improve Student Success
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July 18, 2012
Loralyn Taylor is Director of Institutional Research and Registrar, and Virginia McAleese is Professor and Director, Academic Success Center, at Paul Smith’s College of…
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Evolutionary Analytics: BI on a Shoestring
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July 18, 2012
William Anderson is CIO and Mary Jane Russell is Director of Finance at Saint Michael's College. Key Takeaways Lead by its CIO, the Saint Michael&#…
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Signals: Using Academic Analytics to Promote Student Success
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July 18, 2012
Matthew D. Pistilli is a Research Scientist , Kimberly E. Arnold is an Educational Assessment Specialist, and Matthew D. Bethune is an Educational Tech…
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Coaching Reports Support Customized Study Plans
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July 18, 2012
Jason Levin is Vice President of Institutional Research and Sally Johnstone is Vice President for Academic Advancement at Western Governors University. Key Take…
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Understanding and Managing the Risks of Analytics
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July 18, 2012
Randall J. Stiles is Special Advisor for the President, Business Analytics, at Colorado College. Jill Tiefenthaler is President of Colorado College and Professor of Economics. T…
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Learning Analytics: The New Black
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July 18, 2012
Melanie Booth is Dean, Learning & Assessment, at Marylhurst University. Learning analytics is the "measurement, collection, analysis and reporting of data about learner…
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Increasing the Odds of Success
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July 18, 2012
Diana G. Oblinger is President and CEO of EDUCAUSE. There is a great deal at stake today for higher education—for our students, our faculty, and our institutions. But we have …
