Using Data to improve Teaching & Learning
Stephanie DelaneySeattle Central Community College
What is Data Analytics?
Learning analytics is the measurement, collection, analysis and reporting of data about
learners and their contexts, for purposes of understanding and optimizing learning and the
environments in which it occurs.
What are 2 things you’d like to improve in your classroom?
How can an ordinary teacher use Learning Analytics?
Carnegie Mellon Open Learning Initiative
How else can I use data to improve my teaching?
Grade Book + Grade Reports
Anonymous Surveys
Map Outcomes
Individual Learning with ANGEL Automation
View Item Analysis in Assessments
User Statistics in Tegrity
3 Things to Read
• Bienkowski, M., Feng, M. & Means, B., Enhancing Teaching and Learning Through Educational Data Mining and Learning Analytics: An Issue Brief, http://evidenceframework.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/EDM-LA-Brief-Draft_4_10_12c.pdf
• Ferguson, R., The State of Learning Analytics in 2012: A Review and Future Challenges, http://kmi.open.ac.uk/publications/pdf/kmi-12-01.pdf
• Van Barneveld, A., Arnold, K.E., Campbell, J. P., Analytics in Higher Education: Establishing a Common Language, http://net.educause.edu/ir/library/pdf/ELI3026.pdf
References
• Carnegie Mellon Open Learning Initiative - http://oli.web.cmu.edu/openlearning/index.php