Enhancing Student Success Through Data Analytics at University of Regina

1. Dr Fay Patel26 September 2019 Presentation: University of ReginaSaskatchewan Canada Employing Data to Enhance Teaching, Learning, and Student Success at the University of Regina

2. Imperatives/Assumptions

3. UR Strategic Plan – Strategic Priorities Commitment to • Student Success • Research Impact • Our Communities • Key overarching focus • Indigenization • Sustainability Note: Invited stakeholder input on next strategic plan. Consultations are under way this fall.

4. Teaching & Student Analytics Connecting Teaching , Learning and Student Analytics with Student Success

5. Learning journey & destination… Focus: Critical Considerations • UR Strategic Priority: Student Success • Teaching, Learning & Student Analytics : Informing practice • Assuring quality in teaching and learning • Role of student analytics in enhancing student success • Pedagogical purpose, perspectives and approaches Challenges & Opportunities • Perceptions of ‘student analytics’ • Early Adopters (early majority& late majority) and laggards and ….(Rogers, 1995) • Strengthening student experience and learning process • Identifying & responding to students and courses ‘at risk’ • Framing the right questions to action change • Knowing what students need for success • Partnerships with academic and student stakeholders

6. Student/Learning Analytics, Diffusion of Innovations and Pedagogical Purpose Learning Analytics Diffusion of Innovations (E.Rogers, 1995) Innovators Early adopters Early Majority Late Majority Laggards Pedagogical Purpose Teaching & learning impact Inspire, engage learning process Advocates action for change Enhancement, improvement, sustainability, quality education goals • ‘The Society for Research in Learning Analytics (SoLAR) defines learning analytics as "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 occurs". University of Melbourne https://about.unimelb.edu.au/teaching-and-learning/innovation-initiatives/digital-and-online-innovation/learning-analytics • By merging technical methods for data mining and with current educational theory research and practice, learning analytics has provided novel and real-time approaches to assessing critical issues such as student progression and retention,…’ The University of Edinburgh ttps://www.ed.ac.uk/information-services/learning-technology/learning-analytics

7. Teaching & Learning & Student Analytics … • Canada • Hong Kong • Australia • Malaysia & Bangladesh • Student evaluation feedback data into curriculum enhancement plans • TL & Student Analytics align institutional research, student feedback data, quality assurance and curriculum enhancement • TLCs & Institutional Research collaboration for student success • TLCs & Quality Assurance promote curriculum enhancement

8. “Right data at the right time…RMIT Learning Analytics act as custodians of RMIT’s data for education” (https://www.rmit.edu.au/about/governance-and-management/organisation-structure/education-portfolio/learning-analytics/who-we-are) Five core areas of work

9. Eight Key Principles of Learning Analytics (https://www.rmit.edu.au/about/governance-and-management/organisation-structure/education-portfolio/learning-analytics/who-we-are) Institutional and stakeholder responsibility Student rights, participation and benefits Students not wholly defined by visible data or institutional interpretation Institutional stakeholders transparent in collection, analysis and use of data Students active agents in implementation of data Interventions based on data to be free of bias • Acceptance of values, benefits and skills across organisation • Ethical and justified practice • Responsibility to extract meaning from student data for student benefit • Data support quality teaching and learning and student-centred practice

10. Strategic implementation:Teaching & Student Analytics Challenges • Bridging student experience and learning design • Promoting teaching excellence • Responding to student needs (disability, indigenous, international, graduate…) • Integrating research, teaching & learning • Community partnership building and engagement • Translating student analytics into meaningful teaching and learning success Sustainable quality education Enhancing teaching & learning impact Student success: voice, power, presence Academic impact: research - evidenced learning design Student experience Quality education supporting resources

11. Sustainable Teaching & Learning Effectiveness (Student feedback, curriculum enhancement plan, student success) Research Impact Research Support Team • (Academic, UG/PG Student Research Projects) Teaching & Student Analytics

12. Indigenization of the curriculum Adopt critical perspectives to develop multi-perspective curricula ‘Decolonize minds before decolonizing living and learning spaces’ ‘Third culture’ approach Harmonize histories, knowledge forms and stories What do we not see, what are the silences, gaps, missing links? How can student analytics enhance multi-perspective curriculum development? A matter of perspective…. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCQ2zp9FmJzOG_JzUJ0A-FlQ?v=s_IUJf0w8Fg ‘Equity, inclusivity, diversity and sustainability are fundamental criteria for negotiating shared co-construction of our histories’

13. To conclude Open minds Partnerships Collaboration Walking together Strength in Unity

14. Time for Dialogue Glocalexperience,reframeneighbourhoods & build partnerships and glocal communities

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