Presentation given by Rebecca Ferguson at the BETT HE Leaders Summit in Excel, London, on 25 January 2017. The talk covers work carried out by the European-funded LAEP and LACE projects. "If you would like to introduce learning analytics at your institution, where should you start? Drawing on a recent study that consulted experts worldwide, Rebecca Ferguson will outline an action plan for analytics and identify the key points to keep in mind."

1. Rebecca Ferguson, The Open University, UK
BETT, 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

3. 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 University
open.ac.uk

5. 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

6. 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

7. cloudworks.ac.uk/cloudscape/view/2959

8. Action plan for learning analytics
Policy leadership and governance
Institutional leadership and governance
Collaboration and networking
Teaching and learning
Quality assessment and assurance
Capacity building
Infrastructure

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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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Slides online at www.slideshare.net/R3beccaF
Rebecca Ferguson @R3beccaF
http://r3beccaf.wordpress.com/