ABSTRACT
The development of student-facing learning analytics tools presents many opportunities and challenges in higher education. These student-facing tools put data and visualisations directly into the hands of students to interpret and act upon with the aim of providing support for student learning. Ranging from broad, institutional systems aimed at improving student regulation of their learning across their whole degree through to tools designed to deliver task-specific, real-time feedback, these student-facing analytics present a wide variety of data to students in many different forms. This chapter explores the evolution of student-facing analytics by profiling three levels of tools. Throughout this exploration a number of key issues will be considered as well as how such tools can be evaluated and used in an ethical manner. The chapter concludes with an outline of the how all these issues impact the use of student-facing analytics tools ‘in the classroom’ and future directions for research in this area.
