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Data Analytics and Learning Technologies: What’s possible and can it inform practice?. Timothy Linsey Hendrik van der Sluis Academic Development Centre Educational Research Forum Friday 15 June 2012 Available at:. Learning and Academic analytics. Analytics
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Data Analytics and Learning Technologies:What’s possible and can it inform practice? Timothy Linsey Hendrik van der Sluis Academic Development Centre Educational Research Forum Friday 15 June 2012 Available at:
Learning and Academic analytics Analytics Analytics is an overarching concept described as data-driven decision making (van Barneveld, Arnold & Campbell, 2012: 6) Learning analytics “Learning analytics is the measurement, collection, analysis and reporting of data about learners and their contexts, for purposes of understanding and optimising learning and the environments in which it occur” (LAK, 2011, npn) Academic analytics Analytics marries large data sets, statistical techniques, and predictive modeling. It could be thought of as the practice of mining institutional data to produce “actionable intelligence.” (Campbell, DeBlois & Oblinger, 2007: 42)
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