An overview of learning analytics as of autumn 2012. Presentation to an internal OU audience (the Student Statistics and Surveys Team).

1. Learning Analytics
Presentation to IET SSST
Doug Clow, 12 November 2012
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2. What is learning analytics?
• the measurement, collection, analysis and reporting of
data about learners and their contexts, for purposes of
understanding and optimising learning and the
environments in which it occurs
– First International Conference on Learning Analytics And Knowledge (LAK11), Banff, Alberta,
Feb 27-Mar 1 2011 .

3. • Learning analytics
• Learner analytics
• Academic analytics
• Business Intelligence
• Educational Data Mining
• Web analytics
• Social network analysis
• Predictive modeling
• Latent semantic analysis
• … and more!
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4. • An abundance of data
• Qualitative and quantitative
• To improve learning

5. • Predictive modeling, datamining (Blackboard)
• Fit students in to one of three risk groups
=> traffic light
• Trigger for intervention emails
• Consistent grade performance improvement

7. • iSpot reputation: proxy
measure of learning

8. SNAPP
• Social Networks Adapting Pedagogic Practice
• Network visualisations of forum activity data from VLE
• See patterns
• Spot central and
disconnected
• Identify at-risk
• Improve teaching

10. Social network analysis
• Suthers and Chu, 2012

11. Content/semantic analysis
• Lárusson and White, 2012

12. Usage tracking
• Santos, Govaerts,
Verbert and Duval,
2012

13. Social learning analytics
• Ferguson and Buckingham Shum, 2012

14. Dispositions analytics
• Buckingham Shum and
Deakin Crick, 2012

15. Clow, LAK12, 2012