ERIC Number: EJ1021550
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2013
Pages: 13
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An Overview of Learning Analytics
Clow, Doug
Teaching in Higher Education, v18 n6 p683-695 2013
Learning analytics, the analysis and representation of data about learners in order to improve learning, is a new lens through which teachers can understand education. It is rooted in the dramatic increase in the quantity of data about learners and linked to management approaches that focus on quantitative metrics, which are sometimes antithetical to an educational sense of teaching. However, learning analytics offers new routes for teachers to understand their students and, hence, to make effective use of their limited resources. This paper explores these issues and describes a series of examples of learning analytics to illustrate the potential. It argues that teachers can and should engage with learning analytics as a way of influencing the metrics agenda towards richer conceptions of learning and to improve their teaching.
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Data, Data Analysis, Measures (Individuals), Models, Prediction, Social Networks, Content Analysis, Semantics
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Evaluative
Education Level: Higher Education; Postsecondary Education
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: United Kingdom
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