using data to improve teaching and learning

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