Need and Role of Analytics In Education

1. LEARNING ANALYTICS
By Susmita Pruthi

2. The Learning Ecosystem
Education
Department Teacher
School
Learning
Community
Classroom
Playground
Home
Tuition

3. Some learning is happening at all times
 What is the learning – scholastic or co-scholastic
or any other?
 How do we measure it?
 How do we tag it to a set of defined learning
objectives or tag and follow up to define new ones
 and so on …

4. Need for Analytics
 Analytics are needed for any business to
 increase efficiencies and productivity –financial or operational
 expanding the business
 help strategise a new business model due to
 High competition in the market space
 Entering newer markets
 Manage the changing economic climate
 Educational Institutions, especially higher education, are also
looking at analytics for parallel demands
 Increasing my captive market to source enrollments
 Retaining the existing student for newer, higher course
 Getting references from existing
 What operational efficiencies can be adopted to reduce fund outflow
yet manage my output
 Fund raising activities

5. Analytics in educational institutions
 But in an educational institution, it may go beyond
pure business to educational / learning analytics
 Basics are already addressed by most of the LMSs
 like which student is consistently having good scores, is it
comparable in all subjects, if not then what subjects are needing
intervention, what the subject area for intervention.
 But where it gets stumped is the form and nature of best
intervention that can close the gap.
 Higher levels of analytics can be
 What is the most liked form of learning,
 What are they learning,
 How to assess the learning and application of learning,
 How to precise the learning and pump the solution back to the
learning effectively, to have the desired effectiveness
and so …

6. Learning Analytics
Identifying the scope of Learning Analytics with barriers and
challenges
Defining the data to be mined
Defining the processes that will expose such data
Define systems to capture the data
Define the Learning Analytics
Correctional Feedback into the processes & systems

7. Learning Analytics for elearning
 The scope of LA in elearning is as wide as the globe
and beyond as the scope of elearning itself is wide.
 From conventional LMS based online learning
systems that are trackable to social media enabled
platforms – blogs, discussion forms, developer
community etc, each offers some aspect of
learning happening.
 These domains are more appropriate for mature
learners and not primary learners.

8. LA for developer community
 While the developer community exchanges ‘best
practices’, the technology evangelist pursues it
backend with the technology service provider to
provide the necessary feature in the next release.

9. Learning Analytics for Behavioural Sciences
 With Personalization feature, any website is able to
make the entire content presented to you as you would
‘like’ it to be, thus enabling your comfort of usage
(learning).
 Higher the usage, higher is the revenue (basis the
business model). For example
 Based on your last purchases, the websites throws the
offers in these categories
 Basis your choices during registration, alerts are sent you as
info on great offers
 Basis the last accessed job profiles, the portal pushes other
‘similar’ offers to you
and so on

10. Combining LA with Behavioural aspect for
education/learning effectiveness
 Many models and Frameworks are available
 And many more can be drawn basis the needs of
the institution
 It is a ongoing ‘work in progress’ model as the cycle
of Learning – Learning Analytics – Loop back into
learning with continue to be addressed.

11. Other reading material browsed
On http://www.learninganalytics.net/
 http://net.educause.edu/ir/library/pdf/ELI3026.pdf
 http://evidenceframework.org/wp-
content/uploads/2012/04/EDM-LA-Brief-
Draft_4_10_12c.pdf
 http://kmi.open.ac.uk/publications/pdf/kmi-12-01.pdf

12.  Have created a Gloggter id : pruthisusmita
 Have not had the time to check out the
possibilities hence the simple form of ppt for this
assignment