2011-06-16 Analytics

Extended Collaboration Session: Analytics

Schedule

1. Presentations
   1. Introduction to Analytics & Michigan's Analytics project with Sakai CLE - Former user (Deleted)
   2. NYU & Pentaho in Sakai OAE - Former user (Deleted)
   3. Open Academic Analytics Initiative (OAAI) - Former user (Deleted)
   4. Onsophic analytics and integration with Sakai CLE (?) - Marleen McDaniel
2. Questions / Comments about Analytics & Sakai - Panel

Description

This combined session brings together several presentations on analytics and Sakai, and was built from two original presentation proposals (described below).

https://www.concentra-cms.com/program/Sakai/2011-sakai-conference/736.html

Academic Analytics is a hot topic in Higher Education. Institutions are seeking to use analytics to understand student success and academic performance, maximize retention. Increasingly, regulatory and accreditation bodies require this information to help measure effectiveness. This block session will report on a number of analytics initiatives within the Sakai Community, and higher education generally. Opportunities will be provided to interact with individual presenters, and to synthesize information available across the session.

Learn about current pathways to access and make use of learning analytics in Sakai to support activities such as learner success, curriculum/program evaluation, and technology and user support management. Participants will learn about learning analytics in relation to Sakai's native Site Statistics tool for both individual course/site and enterprise reporting, a collaboration led by Marist College to expose Sakai learning analytics to external open-source and proprietary platforms for student success and academic early warning/intervention, a collaboration led by CARET at the University of Cambridge to bring together Sakai activity and attention data to create useful and informative technology management reporting including powerful visualizations, and Onsophic, a new platform that can connect to Sakai to enable learning analytics to drive continuous improvement and learning outcomes.

Discussion Questions

• Who are our audiences for Analytics?
  • Does the presentation of data change for each audience?
• What kind of infrastructure / technology steps are needed for Sakai OAE? for Sakai CLE? 
  • (is this 2 separate groups?)
• Ethical / privacy concerns and issues

Session Materials and Links

Follow-Up Notes

There will be a Discussion Group formed around the topic of Analytics following the conference. A link to that group page will be also be available here, when posted.

Suggested Readings:

• Campbell, J., Deblois, P., & Oblinger, D. (2007). Academic analytics: A new tool for a new era. EDUCAUSE Review, 42(4), 40-57.
• Fritz, J. (2011). Classroom walls that talk: Using online course activity data of successful students to raise self-awareness of underperforming peers. The Internet and Higher Education, 14(2), 89-97. 
• Goldstein, P., & Katz, R. (2005). Academic analytics: The uses of management information information and technology in higher education - key findings (pp.1-12). Educause Center for Applied Research. 
• Macfadyen, L.P., & Dawson, S. (2010). Mining LMS data to develop an "early warning system" for educators: A proof of concept. Computers & Education, 54(2), 588-599. 
• Morris, L.V., Finnegan, C., & Wu, S. (2005). Tracking student behavior, persistence, and achievement in online courses. The Internet and Higher Education, 8(3), 221-231.