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7 Things You Should Know About Analytics

April 7, 2010

Analytics tools provide statistical evaluation of rich data sources to discern patterns that can help individuals at companies, educational institutions, or governments make more informed decisio…

7 Things You Should Know About First-Generation Learning Analytics

December 6, 2011

Learning analytics (LA) applies the model of analytics to the specific goal of improving learning outcomes. LA collects and analyzes the “digital breadcrumbs” that students leave as th…

A Complete Online Class: Course Management, Live Web Conferencing, and Teacher-Made Streaming Movies

October 29, 2008 | A session at the EDUCAUSE 2008 Annual Conference

Explore an online course by viewing the actual course preparation, live web office hours, and teacher-made movies. Participants will experience a live online web session with students in California…

A Virtual Graduation Ceremony for Online Distance Students

December 15, 2010

Key Takeaways While online education is increasing, researchers find that students taking online courses at a distance drop out at higher rates. Florida State University's College …

Academic Analytics: A New Tool for a New Era

July 6, 2007

© 2007 John P. Campbell, Peter B. DeBlois, and Diana G. Oblinger EDUCAUSE Review , vol. 42, no. 4 (July/August 2007): 40–57 Academic Analytics: A New Tool for a New Era John P. Cam…

Assessment and Analytics in Institutional Transformation

September 12, 2011

Freeman A. Hrabowski III ( hrabowski@umbc.edu ) is President of the University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC). Jack Suess ( Jack@umbc.edu ) is Vice President, Information Technology,…

ASU on Facebook: Leveraging Social Networking to Improve Retention

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

Social connections are essential to student retention and are increasingly occurring online. In collaboration with Inigral, ASU is leveraging student interest in social networking to increase reten…

Attrition in Online and Campus Degree Programs

August 5, 2009

The purpose of this study was to examine how the mode of instructional delivery, campus face-to-face or online, affected dropout relative to students’ academic and demographic characteristics. …

Big Data's Arrival

February 6, 2012

This article from Inside Higher Ed by Paul Fain describes a WECT research project tracking students taking online courses. The research shows how tracking certain variables proves the usefulness…

Bootstrapping Your Analytics

October 3, 2011

Join Malcolm Brown, EDUCAUSE Learning Initiative director, and Veronica Diaz, ELI associate director, as they moderate this webinar with Vernon Smith, vice president of academic affairs at Rio S…