Learning Analytics in Higher Education

White paper explores how solutions empower decision makers and shares best practices that are fundamental to the successful application of analytics across the student life cycle.

Explores the current state of higher education institutional analytics and identifies the foundational elements of effective, efficient, and adaptable institutional analytics tools.

Examines the potential for improved research, evaluation, and accountability through data mining, data analytics, and web dashboards.

Sets out recommendations that emphasize the importance of a strategy for data and analytics that needs to be put in place, and kept up-to-date, by each university.

This Report proposes a number of Core Issues that are important on a global basis for the use and development of Learning Analytics in ethics-informed ways.

Report by the International Council for Open and Distance Education.

Overview report from the International Council for Open and Distance Education.

Describes challenges and opportunities in the Dutch education sector.

This report describes a variety of challenges and opportunities regarding institutions’ readiness to expand data use across functions. Among the many findings that highlight how IT, IR, and student affairs divisions are engaged in collaborative data-oriented work.

This EDUCAUSE report explores the current state of learning analytics in higher education and identify the foundational elements of effective, efficient, and adaptable learning analytics tools.

Through a series of eleven case studies, this report presents an overview of the evidence currently available of the impact that analytics are having on teaching and learning – and highlights some of the opportunities for the UK higher education sector.

Offers a snapshot of the sector from the perspective of institutional Heads of Learning, and attempts to understand the current levels of awareness, adoption, maturity, drivers, challenges and benefits.

Ongoing research project designed to identify and describe emerging technologies likely to have an impact on learning, teaching, and creative inquiry in education. Higher Education reports include section on learning analytics.

This report aims to understand the state of the art in the implementation of learning analytics for education and training in both formal and informal settings.

Reviews challenges to institutional adoption and provide new insights that can aid future implementations of Learning Analytics.

Provides a critical debate on the limits of computational modelling, the ethics of analytics, and the educational paradigms that learning analytics promote.

Mission is to conduct in-depth research that leads to new ideas for solving problems facing society at the local, national and global level.

Nonprofit association whose mission is to advance higher education by promoting the intelligent use of information technology.

National Reports on the Development of Education submitted by countries since 1933.

Only ongoing assessment of what U.S. students know and can do in different subjects.

The Annual Reports and Information group within the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) produces several reports each year that draw from over 25 surveys by NCES and other government agencies.

Nation's largest professional employee organization committed to advancing the cause of public education.

A nonprofit institution that helps improve policy and decision making through research and analysis. Research includes K-12 assessment and accountability, school reform, teachers and teaching, higher education, military education and training, worker training, and substance-abuse prevention in schools.

Agency of the federal government that establishes policy for, administers, and coordinates most federal assistance to education.

Responsible for coordinating international cooperation in education, science, culture and communication.

Works nationally to improve learning and enrichment for disadvantaged children and foster the vitality of the arts for everyone.