A Few Learning Analytics Resources (Links)

  • Stanford University Lytics Lab - Links to their research (Understanding Online Learners, Evaluating Digital Instruction, Building Learning Tools), publications, and external conferences and journals. [Stanford]
    • Learning Analytics 101 from NYU's Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development - Videos and hyperlinked readings help to break down LA for newbies [NYU]
    • Office of Educational Technology, Learning Analytics - According to their mission, the OET "develops national educational technology policy and establishes the vision for how technology can be used to transform teaching and learning and how to make everywhere, all-the-time learning possible for early learners through K-12, higher education, and adult education."  [tech.ed.gov] 
    • MIT Open Courseware, The Analytics Edge - Open-access course from MIT's Sloan School of Management on the "analytics edge" and "the key quantitative methods that created the edge (data-mining, dynamic optimization, simulation)" [MIT]



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    1. crs6414blog21July 16, 2021 at 7:17 AM

      Thank you for these analytics resources. Thank you for sharing. I took a look at them. I also found some of the other information on the Stanford site interesting. I had heard the delimma of whether the instructors face is preferred or not before. I wish it was a bit more directed one way than 2/3 to 1/3 but I guess at least it isn't 50/50.

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