Learning analytics
The Society for Learning Analytics Research defined learning analytics as
“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”
Long, P.D., Siemens, G., Conole, G. and Gašević, D.(Eds) (2011), Proceedings of the 1st International Conference On Learning Analytics And Knowledge (LAK’11), ACM, New York, NY.
This blog is a brief one about the actionable nature of learning analytics.
An important point to highlight – but making LA meaningful and actionable at the level of an individual course is not, I think, that straightforward 😉
I am still writing this post – haven’t finished it yet! Published too quickly…
Please see the blog ‘Learning Analytics #2’ for the intended content…