Learning Analytics

Learning Analytics30th January 2013Alex Reeve, Learning ConsultantPaul Burns, Head of Technology

www.brightwave.co.uk

1. What is Learning Analytics?

2. Why is it important?

3. What can we discover?

4. What can the Experience API offer?

5. What does the future hold?

6. Questions & Answers

Agenda

What is Learning 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.”

Massively Open Online Courses (MOOCs)

Data-intensive Universities

Why is it important?

The benefits

An evidence-based approach to online learning that helps:

• Identify what really works

• Create more effective learning experiences

• Identify which organisations/departments are supporting

effective learning cultures

• Increase learner success

• Model and replicate high-performing behaviours

• Tailor learning to individual user needs

How is Brightwave using Learning Analytics?

• Data compilation and analysis:

e.g. usage rates, drop-out points, scores, technology

• Sense-making and connection

mapping

• Data visualisations

• Recommendations for change

• Dashboard

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Registered users

Unique logins

Course launches

Completions

How will the Experience API enhance Learning Analytics?

• What is it?

• Modernised version of SCORM

• Record any learning experience

• Data is freed

• Correlation

Tin Can/Experience API

• The potential for Learning Analytics

• Beyond the LMS

• Capture a wealth of experiences

• Comprehensive view of individual’s learning

Tin Can/Experience API

Tin Can/Experience API

• A practical example

• Sales training

Tin Can/Experience API

tessello

What does the future hold?

• The virtuous spiral

• Correlation builds learning strategies

What does the future hold?

Questions & Answers

alex.reeve@brightwave.co.ukpaul.burns@brightwave.co.uk

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