Learning Analytics
Learning analytics uses educational data to improve the quality and value of the learning experience within schools and universities. Rutgers University’s Center for Teaching Advancement and Assessment Research states that it includes evaluating, diagnosing, and providing appropriate scaffolds to help students reach their learning goals. Ensuring students become reflective, self-motivated, and life-long learners is another important aspect of Learning Analytics.
Organizations and Research Forums
- Society for Learning Analytics Research (SoLAR) is an interdisciplinary network of leading international researchers who are exploring the role and impact of analytics on teaching, learning, training and development.
- International Society of the Learning Science (ISLS) is a professional society dedicated to the interdisciplinary, empirical investigation of learning as it exists in real-world settings; the society also explores how learning may be facilitated both with and without technology.
- Stanford Lytics Lab (Learning analytics at scale) is an open, interdisciplinary research community that advances the science of learning through the use of data and digital technology in college and lifelong learning.
- Transformational Planning Grant (TPG): A cohort of seven public urban research universities that spent a year planning and designing new business models and innovative approaches to increase access and improve success rates. CSU Fresco is one of the participates.
- Educause Learning Analytics
- Universal Design for Learning in Higher Education
Resources for Learning Management System Administrators and Users
- Canvas
- Analytics and New Analytics for instructors
- Moodle
- Blackboard
- Brightspace (Desire to Learn)
Learning Analytics Technology, Tools and Toolkit
- CSUN Canvas Insights: A Canvas tool custom built by CSUN allowing faculty to easily communicate with individual students based on an early alert.
- Adult Learning Toolkit (APLU)
- Knewton: Adaptive Learning Platform
- Wooclap: Classroom Response System designed to boost audience participation by turning smartphones into a comprehensive learning tool.
- Gamification: Motivating First Year Computer Science Students Using Gamification at Laurentian University, Ontario, Canada
Resources for Learning Students Characteristics and Inclusive Teaching
- CSU/CSUN Student Demographics Dashboards
- Navigating Generational Shifts: Understanding Today’s student Demographics, Preferences and Expectations. UPCEA (2017)
- Student Diversity and Access Resources. IES Abroad.
- Diversity and Inclusive Teaching: Center for Research on Learning & Teaching at University of Michigan.
- Global Learning (Cross Cultural Group Work, Teaching International Students): Center for Research on Learning & Teaching at University of Michigan
- Emergency online learning and inequity: developed countries
Additional Resources for Teaching and Learning Technologies
- Yale Poorvu Center for Teaching and Learning
- Teaching and Learning Technologies at Georgetown University
- Educause e-Learning
- Design for Teaching in the Digital Age
- Learning technologies e-Magazine
