Metrics

EDUCAUSE Library Items for Metrics

Lessons from the Field: Making a Culture of Inquiry Work for You

February 6, 2012

Join Malcolm Brown, EDUCAUSE Learning Initiative director, and Veronica Diaz, ELI associate director, as they moderate this webinar with Rob Johnstone from the Research and Planning Group. The R…

Establishing Metrics for mLearning

February 15, 2012 | A session at the EDUCAUSE Learning Initiative 2012 Annual Meeting

mLearning is increasingly prevalent in all educational settings, and yet its definition, role, and assessment are still largely amorphous and subjective. Many mobile initiatives purport to provide …

Metrics That Lead to Action: Improving the Performance of Students, Faculty, Courses, and Programs

October 20, 2011 | A session at the EDUCAUSE 2011 Annual Conference

Two institutions will discuss how data can promote the effectiveness of students, faculty, courses, and programs. UMBC leverages learner analytics to help identify and promote effective teaching pr…

Metrics 101: Practice with a Practical Approach to Metrics

October 19, 2011 | A session at the EDUCAUSE 2011 Annual Conference

"We need metrics, but what should we measure? Where should we start?" If this sentiment resonates with you, we're here to help! In this interactive session we'll share our metho…

Designing a Dashboard to Rank CMS Usage

January 13, 2010 | A session at the EDUCAUSE Mid-Atlantic Regional Conference 2010

Drexel IT has an abiding interest in determining metrics about its course management system. Each term, we create an environment in Blackboard Vista for every section delivered. While we can keep t…

Making Progress: Measurement, Collaboration, and Communication

November 5, 2009 | A session at the EDUCAUSE 2009 Annual Conference

Technology to support the campus mission and community is vital. At Baylor, a renewed culture of assessment and continuous improvement and new IT leadership have led to more measurement and greater…

EDUCAUSE Now: - #37 - 1) IT Helping Higher Ed Be More Nimble 2) Interview with Leah Lang, Service and Metrics Analyst

March 10, 2011

This month on EDUCAUSE Now :  We ask the question to several higher education IT leaders : How can IT help higher education become more nimble ? We also feature an interview with …

Measuring What Matters

October 24, 2007 | A session at the EDUCAUSE 2007 Annual Conference

Determining what to measure, how to measure it, and to whom to report the results can be more of an art than a science. In this session, four major research universities will address how to communi…

Online Education: Tailoring, Measuring and ‘Bridging’

October 29, 2007

An announcement from Blackboard, a collection of studies and new techniques all attempt to improve, and assess, what students are learning online. …

Do-It-Yourself Metrics

January 1, 2006

Good Ideas Do-It-Yourself Metrics Metrics have arrived—which means we need a practical approach to implementing them By Martin Klubeck , Michael Langthorne , and Don Padgett …