ABSTRACT

Learning Analytics in Higher Education provides a foundational understanding of how learning analytics is defined, what barriers and opportunities exist, and how it can be used to improve practice, including strategic planning, course development, teaching pedagogy, and student assessment. Well-known contributors provide empirical, theoretical, and practical perspectives on the current use and future potential of learning analytics for student learning and data-driven decision-making, ways to effectively evaluate and research learning analytics, integration of learning analytics into practice, organizational barriers and opportunities for harnessing Big Data to create and support use of these tools, and ethical considerations related to privacy and consent. Designed to give readers a practical and theoretical foundation in learning analytics and how data can support student success in higher education, this book is a valuable resource for scholars and administrators.

chapter 1|19 pages

Absorptive Capacity and Routines

Understanding Barriers to Learning Analytics Adoption in Higher Education

chapter 2|25 pages

Analytics in the Field

Why Locally Grown Continuous Improvement Systems are Essential for Effective Data-Driven Decision-Making

chapter 4|24 pages

Evaluating Scholarly Teaching

A Model and Call for an Evidence-Based Approach

chapter 6|22 pages

Student Consent in Learning Analytics

The Devil in the Details?

chapter 7|20 pages

Using Learning Analytics to Improve Student Learning Outcomes Assessment

Benefits, Constraints, & Possibilities

chapter 8|27 pages

Data, Data Everywhere

Implications and Considerations