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Rebecca Ferguson, The Open University, UKBETT, January 2017
Learning analytics: an action plan
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Learning analytics
The measurement, collection, analysis and
reporting of data about learners and their
contexts, for purposes of understanding and
optimizing learning and the environments in
which it occurs.
solaresearch.org
Learning analytics help us to identify and make sense of patterns in the data
to improve our teaching, our learning and our learning environments
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The Open Universityopen.ac.uk
Priority areas for education and training
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• Bringing together different sectors: higher education, schools & workplace learning• Building enduring networks• Helping to develop learning analytics capability• Creating and sharing resources• Developing visions of the future and agreeing how to work towards them
www.laceproject.eu
LAEP: learning analytics for European educational policy
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• What is the current state of the art?• What are the prospects for the implementation of learning analytics?
• What is the potential for European policy to be used to guide and support the take-up and adaptation of learning analytics to enhance education in Europe?
http://bit.ly/2jLfx9p
cloudworks.ac.uk/cloudscape/view/2959
Action plan for learning analytics
Policy leadership and governanceInstitutional leadership and governanceCollaboration and networkingTeaching and learningQuality assessment and assuranceCapacity buildingInfrastructure
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Policy leadership and governance
• Develop common visions of learning analytics that address strategic objectives and priorities
• Develop a roadmap for learning analytics• Align learning analytics work with
different sectors• Develop frameworks that enable
development of analytics • Assign responsibility for
development of learning analytics• Continuously work on reaching
common understanding and developing new priorities
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http://bit.ly/2iMIVai
Institutional leadership
• Create organisational structures to support use of learning analytics and help educational leaders to implement these changes
• Develop practices that are appropriate to different contexts
• Develop and employ ethical standards, including data protection
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Collaboration and networking
●Identify and build on work in related areas and other countries
●Engage stakeholders throughout the process to create learning analytics that have useful features
●Support collaboration with commercial organisations
http://cloudworks.ac.uk/cloudscape/view/2965
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Teaching and learning
●Develop learning analytics that make good use of pedagogy
●Align analytics with assessment practices
http://www.laceproject.eu/blog/infographic-learning-analytics/
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Quality assessment and assurance
●Develop a robust quality assurance process for the validity and reliability of tools
●Develop evaluation checklists for learning analytics tools
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Capacity building
●Identify the skills required in different areas
●Train and support researchers and developers to work in this field
●Train and support educators to use analytics to support achievement
Probability of cohort passing = 58%
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Infrastructure
●Develop technologies that enable development of analytics
●Adapt and employ interoperability standards
http://bit.ly/1VDkjkW
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solaresearch.org • LAK conferences • LASI events
Stay connected
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Slides online at www.slideshare.net/R3beccaF
Rebecca Ferguson @R3beccaFhttp://r3beccaf.wordpress.com/