Leveraging the Potential of Learning Analytics in Higher Education Requires Inclusive Policies and Practices
To fully leverage the power of learning analytics data, attention must be paid to the policies and practices that guide data use in higher education. Drawing on justice and care perspectives, we argue a need for inclusive policies and practices—learning analytics professionals should work to establish equity in their systems, ensure transparency and trust, and empower students as active agents in the use of their data.
Learning Analytics: 3 Challenges and Opportunities
Learning Analytics are generating both excitement, and scepticism since adoption isn’t as fast as expected. In this blog, we briefly introduce the key concept, before looking at practical approaches to three challenges for embedding LA in organisations…
Beyond Threaded Discussions: Learning with Knowledge Building Analytics
Chats and threaded forums dominate how we run online discussions in education. But the quality varies widely and it’s impossible for teachers to tell at a glance if learning is going on. In this article, we introduce new kinds of learning analytics that support Knowledge Building discourse.
AcaWriter: designing automated feedback on writing that teachers and students trust
We know feedback is of paramount importance to help students learn to write and improve their writing skills, but providing good formative feedback is a lot of work for educators. In this blog post, I’ll share what we’re learning about the effective use of automated feedback tools in teaching.
Welcome to NEXUS: A learning analytics blog!
It’s a pleasure to welcome you to Nexus, the new blog from SoLAR — The Society for Learning Analytics Research!
A Learning Engineer’s Angle on Learning Analytics
“As new educational technologies are developed, how do we know they are working? Where does the science of learning fit into design and data analysis?”
How data presentation can help (or hurt) student motivation
“Designed well, dashboards help students succeed academically. Dashboards can also, however, unintentionally undermine students’ academic motivation. This is potentially disastrous, because before learning happens, students must be motivated to learn…”
Designing dashboards to help students take action
“It was expected by some that once learners had access to learning dashboards, their learning performance would skyrocket. An easy win, right? Unfortunately, this didn’t turn out to be the case.”