This book A Beginner’s Guide to Learning Analytics is designed to meet modern educational trends’ needs. It is addressed to readers who have no prior knowledge of learning analytics and functions as an introductory text to learning analytics for those who want to do more with evaluation/assessment in their organizations. The book is useful to all who need to evaluate their learning and teaching strategies. It aims to bring greater efficiency and deeper engagement to individual students, learning communities, and educators.
Covered here are the key concepts linked to learning analytics for researchers and practitioners interested in learning analytics. This book helps those who want to apply analytics to learning and development programs and helps educational institutions to identify learners who require support and provide a more personalized learning experience. Like chapters show diverse uses of learning analytics to enhance student and faculty performance. It presents a coherent framework for the effective translation of learning analytics research for educational practice to its practical application in different educational domains. This book provides educators and researchers with the tools and frameworks to effectively make sense of and use data and analytics in their everyday practice. This book will be a valuable addition to researchers’ bookshelves.
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This book explores how to bridge these gaps in education, teaching, and learning, with the new knowledge and technology we have today. ... Each chapter includes one or more case studies ... . (Ernest Hughes, Computing Reviews, February 1, 2022)
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1 Introduction to Learning Analytics |
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1.1 Introduction to Learning Analytics |
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1.2 Learning Analytics: A New and Rapidly Developing Field |
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1.3 Benefits and Challenges of Learning Analytics |
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1.4 Ethical Concerns with Learning Analytics |
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1.5 Use of Learning Analytics |
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2 Educational Data Mining & Learning Analytics |
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2.2 Educational Data Mining (EDM) |
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2.3 Educational Data Mining & Learning Analytics |
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2.4 Educational Data Mining & Learning Analytics Applications |
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3 Preparing for Learning Analytics |
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3.2 Role of Psychology in Learning Analytics |
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3.3 Architecting the Learning Analytics Environment |
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3.4 Major Barriers to Adopting Learning Analytics |
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3.5 Case Studies: Adopting/Implementing Learning Analytics at Institutions |
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4 Data Requirements for Learning Analytics |
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4.2 Types of Data Used for Learning Analytics |
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4.3 Data Models Used to Represent Usage Data for Learning Analytics |
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4.4 Data Privacy Maintenance in Learning Analytics |
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5 Tools for Learning Analytics |
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5.2 Popular Learning Analytics Tools |
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5.4 Strategies to Successfully Deploy a Tool |
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5.5 Exploring Learning Analytics Tools |
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5.6 Case Study: Initiation of Learning Analytics Tools Usage at Various Institutions/Organizations |
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5.7 Developing a Learning Analytics Tool |
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6 Other Technology Approaches to Learning Analytics |
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6.2 Big Data & Learning Analytics |
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6.3 Data Science & Learning Analytics |
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6.4 AI & Learning Analytics |
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6.5 Machine Learning & Learning Analytics |
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6.6 Deep Learning & Learning Analytics |
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7 Learning Analytics in Massive Open Online Courses |
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7.1 Introduction to MOOCs |
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7.2 From MOOCs to Learning Analytics |
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7.3 Integrating Learning Analytics with MOOCs |
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7.4 Benefits of Applying Learning Analytics in MOOCs |
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7.5 Major Concerns of Implementing Learning Analytics in MOOCs |
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7.6 Limitation of Applying Learning Analytics in MOOCs |
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7.7 Tools that Support Learning Analytics in MOOCs |
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7.8 Cast Study: Online Learners and their Persistence Within Online Courses Offered on the Coursera Platform |
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8 The Pedagogical Perspective of Learning Analytics |
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8.1 Introduction to Pedagogy |
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8.2 Learning Analytics Based Pedagogical Framework |
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8.3 Pedagogical Interventions |
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8.4 A Preliminary Model of Pedagogical Learning Analytics Intervention Design |
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8.5 Case Study: Newman University Birmingham's `Collaborative Development of Pedagogic Interventions Based on Learning Analytics' |
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9.1 Self-Learning and Learning Analytics |
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9.2 Life-Long Learning and Learning Analytics |
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9.3 Present and Future Trends of Learning Analytics in the World |
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9.4 Measuring Twenty-First Century Skills Using Learning Analytics |
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9.6 Smart Learning Analytics (Smart LA) |
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9.7 Case Study. Learning Analytics to Support Self-Regulated Learning in Asynchronous Online Courses: A Case Study at a women's University in South Korea |
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10.1 Recommender Systems Using Learning Analytics |
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10.2 Learning Analytics in Higher Education |
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10.3 Other Evidence on the Use of Learning Analytics |
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Dr. Srinivasa K G is currently working as a Professor in National Institute of Technical Teachers Training and Research, Chandigarh. He received his Ph.D. in Computer Science and Engineering from Bangalore University in 2007. He is the recipient of All India Council for Technical Education Career Award for Young Teachers, Indian Society of Technical Education ISGITS National Award for Best Research Work Done by Young Teachers, Institution of Engineers (India) IEI Young Engineer Award in Computer Engineering, Rajarambapu Patil National Award for Promising Engineering Teacher Award from ISTE 2012, IMS Singapore Visiting Scientist Fellowship Award. He has published more than 150 research papers in International Conferences and Journals. He has visited many Universities abroad as a visiting researcher He has visited University of Oklahoma, USA, Iowa State University, USA, Hong Kong University, Korean University, National University of Singapore, University of BritishColumbia, Canada are his few prominent visits. He has authored eight text books with prestigious publishers like TMH, Springer, Oxford, etc. He has edited many research monographs in the areas of Cyber Physical Systems, Energy Aware Computing and Artificial Intelligence with prestigious International publishers. He has been awarded BOYSCAST Fellowship by DST, for conducting collaborative. Research with Clouds Laboratory in University of Melbourne in the area of Cloud Computing. He is the principal Investigator for many funded projects from AICTE, UGC, DRDO, and DST. He is the senior member of IEEE and ACM. His research areas include Data Mining, Machine Learning and Cloud Computing. His recent research areas include Innovative Teaching Practices in Engineering Education, pedagogy; outcomes based education, and teaching philosophy.
Mr. Muralidhar Kurni is an Independent Consultant for Pedagogy Refinement, EduRefine, India. He is currently working as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science & Engineering at Anantha Lakshmi Institute of Technology & Sciences, Anantapuramu, Andhra Pradesh, India. Previously he worked as Head, Department of Computer Applications, Sri Sai College of Technology & Management, Kadapa, Andhra Pradesh, India. Mr. Muralidhar Kurni has received his M.Sc. in Computer Science from S. K. University and M.Tech. in Computer Science & Engineering from JNTUA, Ananthapuram, Andhra Pradesh, India. He has more than 19 years of teaching experience. He is an IUCEE & IGIP certified International Engineering Educator & researcher. He has several scholarly publications to his credit. He presented about 30 papers at various national and international conferences and journals. Four of his papers received the best paper awards. Two of them are the IEEE Conference Best Paper awards. He has been a reviewer for various International Conferences & Journals, including SCIE & Scopus indexed Journals. He served as a Guest Editor forthe Special Issue on Security, Privacy, and Trust in IoT of IJWNBT Journal, IGI Global, Volume 8, Issue 2, July-December 2019. His research interests include Learning Analytics, Learning Strategies, Digital Pedagogy, Design Thinking, Pedagogy refinement & Engineering Education Research.
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