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Download Report: 2020 EDUCAUSE Horizon Report™ | Teaching and Learning Edition

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Evidence-Based Learning: Futures Using learning design and learning analytics to empower teachers to meet students’ diverse needs

With the introduction of learning design in early 2000 and learning analytics in 2012, the OU has led the way in how teachers make complex decisions to design interactive courses, and how students can maximise their learning potential. The next obvious steps would be to include AI, personalisation, and student-led learn- ing analytics to provide […]

Using Learning Analytics to Improve MOOC Instructional Design

Massive Open Online Courses (MOOC) allows teaching and learning for everyone. This means that people from any learning background can join any of the courses offered through MOOC platforms. Although learning materials are offered for free, learning retention and learning engagement were found to be consistently low alt-hough some MOOC are offered by well-known instructors. […]

Learning Analytics in Higher Education: A Reflection

The idea of learning analytics has become popularized within higher education, yet many educators are uncertain about what is entailed when implementing these technologies into practice. The following article serves as an overview to the field of learning analytics for faculty, educators for whom the expectations to use these technologies continues to increase. We additionally […]

Moving Forward with Learning Analytics: Expert Views

Learning analytics involve the measurement, collection, analysis, and reporting of data about learners and their contexts, in order to understand and optimize learning and the environments in which it occurs. Since emerging as a distinct field in 2011, learning analytics has grown rapidly, and early adopters around the world are developing and deploying these new […]

Using learning analytics to develop early-warning system for at-risk students

In the current study interaction data of students in an online learning setting was used to research whether the academic performance of students at the end of term could be predicted in the earlier weeks. The study was carried out with 76 second-year university students registered in a Computer Hardware course. The study aimed to answer […]

Learning Technology as a Professional Practice: Developing a Critical Perspective

One of the reasons I love what I do is that I have always been interested in how we, as human beings, relate to the world around us and, in particular, how we relate to technology. For me, there is no better context than education and lifelong learning to explore how that relationship is evolving […]

Education, privacy, and big data algorithms: Taking the persons out of personalized learning

In this paper, we review the literature on philanthropy in education to provide a larger context for the role that technology company foundations, such as the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and ChanZuckerberg LLC, are playing with respect to the development and implementation of personalized learning. We then analyze the ways that education magazines and […]

Competency‐based education: Multiple approaches‐a single institution

The purpose of this paper was to describe the development of two competency‐based curricula for existing programs at the largest community college with single accreditation serving nearly 160,000 students each year. Utilizing a competency framework and industry partners, program level and students level outcomes were defined to adequately prepare students to meet industry needs. Although […]

5 AIs in Search of a Campus

To grasp how artificial intelligence will play out in higher education, and how we can strategically address these changes, we should think about how artificial intelligence might unfold over the next few years. Educause Review