1. Learning Analytics for a World of Constant
Change Digital Pedagogy Meet Up (20 Feb 2014)
Prepared by Timothy Harfield, Scholar in Residence
Emory University Academic Technology Services, Faculty Services
Created 2014-02-19

2. Introduction

3. Introduction
Outline
1. What is Learning Analytics?
2. What’s the Problem?
3. What are the Solutions?
4. Learning Analytics for the 21st Century

4. What is Learning Analytics?

5. What is Learning Analytics?
Definitions
Business Intelligence (BI)
The use of institutional data in order to improve decision-making, facilitate the
achievement of strategic objectives, and identify opportunities
Academic Analytics
A form of business intelligence, unique to educational institutions, that leverages data
for the purpose of promoting student success

6. What is Learning Analytics?
Definitions
Learning Analytics
The measurement, collection, analysis and reporting of data about learners and their
contexts, for the purposes of understanding and optimizing learning and the
environments in which it occurs.*
*http://www.solaresearch.org/mission/about/

7. What’s the Problem?

8. What’s The Problem?

9. Solutions

10. What are the Solutions?
A. Analytics have no place in the classroom!
2. Okay, analytics…But for training purposes only
C. Maybe we can use data differently?

11. Learning Analytics for the
21st Century

12. Learning Analytics for the 21st Century
1. Reflective Approaches to Learning Analytics

13. Learning Analytics for the 21st Century

14. Conclusions Questions?
Timothy D. Harfield
timothy.harfield@emory.edu
@tdharfield