From the moment students apply to college, until years after they graduate, they leave behind a trail of data. Usually stored in Student Information System (SIS) warehouses, this data captures a student’s behavior and performance as well as the choices they make on the path taken toward graduation. In the past few years, more robust… Read more »
Tag: Learning Analytics
Using Learning Analytics in SoTL
In the SoTL blog series thus far, we’ve been exploring what constitutes SoTL and sources of previously collected data. In this blog, I’d like to discuss another source of previously collected data for SoTL researchers: learning analytics. Broadly defined, learning analytics is the “collection and analysis of data generated during the learning process in order… Read more »