Gilfus Analytics - Academic Analytics and eLearning Intelligence

Academic Analytics and eLearning Intelligence in Higher Education and K12

Gilfus Analytics Mission To transform Higher Education and K12 institution academic and administrative enterprise data into “actionable intelligence”, by presenting dynamic visualizations and executive dashboards that improve teaching and learning performance. © 2010 Gilfus Education Group, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 2

Macro Environment  An Increasing number of at risk Students  Flat Graduation rates  The Gap between High School and College  Costs of remedial and developmental education  Pressures to improve the competitiveness of the American workforce  Increased demand for accountability “On Feb. 24, 2009, President Barack Obama stood before a joint session of Congress and declared that "by 2020, America will once again have the highest proportion of college graduates in the world.” © 2010 Gilfus Education Group, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 3

Project “Insight”  Student LMS activities and Academic Performance.  Student Engagement can be increased through effective deployment of an LMS.  Desire to understand and define Quality in Online Learning. “Opening the Black box of  Gain critical into tool and content LMS.” usage to Define Value to users and organizations. © 2010 Gilfus Education Group, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 5

Gilfus Academic Analytics Project Goals 1. Build from e-learning intelligence from learning management systems 2. Develop independent business logic and data stores 3. Create meaningful visualizations and dashboards for various institutional constituents 4. Develop connectors in collaboration with academic institutions and deploy © 2010 Gilfus Education Group, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 6

Project Insight Kick Off  In early 2010 the Gilfus Education Group began a study with a number of R1 academic institutions to provide strategic insight into organizing principles for executive dashboards and academic analytics.  Blackboard was chosen to assemble insightful visualizations: © 2010 Gilfus Education Group, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 7

Project “Insight” Research Path 1. Develop baseline capabilities: - Extract and report on transaction-level data - Analyze and monitor operational performancs - Develop what-if decision scenario support - Implement predictive modeling and simulations - Deploy automatic alerts and triggers for intervention 2. Align intelligence towards immediate critical insights and student success factors Preparation Engagement Effort Performance © 2010 Gilfus Education Group, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 8

From Project “Insight” to “Gilfus Analytics”  A 1st version of technology and services was unveiled at the Association for Institutional Research conference in Chicago.  An updated collection of visualizations and dashboards were presented at SCUP 2010 - Society for College and University Planning © 2010 Gilfus Education Group, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 9

Gilfus Academic Analytics Capabilities: Consulting services and technology for the deployment of:  Easy-to-use pre-built dashboards and visualizations  Historical data snapshots and storage to allow for analysis and comparisons over time.  Role-based dashboards and access control.  Full Service visualization and reporting capabilities  Easily customized for proprietary data sources and unique reporting requirements. © 2010 Gilfus Education Group, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 10

Gilfus Academic Analytics Deployment  A secure cloud reporting and dashboard service solution for Higher Education: - Fully secure FERPA compliant hosted and managed infrastructure - Secure connectivity to localized or hosted systems - Seamlessly move between your institutions ERP/LMS and Gilfus Analytics reporting “A deployment model that takes the pressure off IT organizations and provides a cost effective mission critical service to institutions” © 2010 Gilfus Education Group, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 12

Academic and Education Analytics Vision Self-Service Role Based Teachers Students Executives Leadership Dashboard Portal Retention Visualizations Custom Reporting Engagement Performance Education Intelligence, Data Models, Business Logic, eLearning Intelligence Consolidated Operational and Historical Data Stores Enterprise Education Bb Angel D2L Moodle Other Other Systems 13 © 2010 Gilfus Education Group, Inc. All Rights Reserved.

Next steps for Gilfus Analytics:  Additional clients have engaged Gilfus Analytics Consulting Services to develop hosted academic analytics dashboards and visualizations for the following systems: © 2010 Gilfus Education Group, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 18

Gilfus Academic Analytics Deployment  Using Cloud based business intelligence and visualization capabilities the Gilfus Education Group has developed technology that is easily implemented and connected into administrative and academic systems to provide robust and insightful dashboards for education.  Including: - Strategic graphs and charts with drill down into granular data - Lightweight and easy-to-use interfaces and reporting - Extensible across the education enterprise - Adaptable connectors and custom reporting assistance © 2010 Gilfus Education Group, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 19

Gilfus Academic Analytics Deployment  The First Secure Cloud Reporting and Dashboard Service Solution for Higher Education: - Fully secure FERPA compliant hosted and managed infrastructure - Secure connectivity to localized or hosted systems - Seamlessly move between your institutions ERP/LMS and Gilfus Analytics reporting “Our deployment model takes the pressure off IT organizations and allows us to provide a cost effective mission critical service to institutions without a reporting or IR department.” © 2010 Gilfus Education Group, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 20

Gilfus Analytics Vision Self-Service Role Based Teachers Students Executives Leadership Dashboard Portal Retention Visualizations Custom Reporting Engagement Performance Education Intelligence, Data Models, Business Logic, eLearning Intelligence Consolidated Operational and Historical Data Stores Enterprise Education SIS HR FIN Other CRM LMS Systems 21 © 2010 Gilfus Education Group, Inc. All Rights Reserved.

Access to Gilfus Academic Analytics  Academic institutions may request access to a demo of the existing visualizations or find out more about Gilfus Analytics Consulting Services by sending an email to: analytics@gilfuseducationgroup.com  Or go to: www.gilfusanalytics.com © 2010 Gilfus Education Group, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 22

About Gilfus: Founding The Gilfus Education Group is an independent consulting firm founded by a father of modern day eLearning and the business and technical expert behind Blackboard Inc., the world’s leading learning management system (LMS). Stephen Gilfus Mr. Gilfus left Blackboard in 2007 with a vision to bring together a team of highly skilled industry professionals to foster global education innovation to meet the needs of 21st century learning capabilities and knowledge economies. © 2010 Gilfus Education Group, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 25

About Gilfus: Background  By delivering - education strategy - research services and Education Technology - implementations Nexus  to - educational institutions, Business - industry investors and - educational companies “The group provides capabilities at the nexus of education, business and technology that facilitate global education innovation.” © 2010 Gilfus Education Group, Inc. All Rights Reserved.

About Gilfus: Mission  Combine: - Industry Vision - Thought Leadership - Organizational Planning - and Technology Expertise The “Gartner” of Education. Driving vision through to implementation, and back to help reinvent and create sustainability. © 2010 Gilfus Education Group, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 27

About Gilfus: K12 Education Clients/Partners “Our team members have helped thousands of K12 education organizations implement enterprise technologies and plan for the future.” © 2010 Gilfus Education Group, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 28

About Gilfus: Higher Ed Clients/Partners “Our team members have helped thousands of higher education organizations implement enterprise Academic and Administrative technologies and plan for the future.” © 2010 Gilfus Education Group, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 29

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