Overcoming Barriers to Educational Analytics: How Systems Thinking and Pragmatism Can Help

Autor/in	Macfadyen, Leah P.
Titel	Overcoming Barriers to Educational Analytics: How Systems Thinking and Pragmatism Can Help
Quelle	In: Educational Technology, 57 (2017) 1, S.31-39 (9 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0013-1962
Schlagwörter	Educational Research; Barriers; Higher Education; Pragmatics; Educational Technology; Statistical Analysis; Educational Innovation; Technology Uses in Education; Electronic Learning; Online Courses; Data; Decision Making; Integrated Learning Systems; Data Collection; Data Analysis + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Bildungsforschung; Pädagogische Forschung; Hochschulbildung; Hochschulsystem; Hochschulwesen; Pragmalinguistik; Unterrichtsmedien; Statistische Analyse; Instructional innovation; Bildungsinnovation; Technology enhanced learning; Technology aided learning; Technologieunterstütztes Lernen; Online course; Online-Kurs; Daten; Decision-making; Entscheidungsfindung; Data capture; Datensammlung; Auswertung
Abstract	Learning technologies are now commonplace in education, and generate large volumes of educational data. Scholars have argued that analytics can and should be employed to optimize learning and learning environments. This article explores what is really meant by "analytics", describes the current best-known examples of institutional analytics in higher education, and reviews the many systemic challenges to implementation of educational analytics at scale. While many schools are currently gripped by analytics panic, this article argues that large-scale implementation may not be achievable for most. Instead, it proposes that small grassroots pragmatic analytics programs may achievably offer administrators, educators, and learners targeted and customized insights into localized and specific teaching and learning challenges--meeting immediate needs with available skills and resources, making meaning with data in ways that specific local audiences can access and understand, and growing a culture of evidence-based educational planning from the bottom up. (As Provided).
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Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2020/1/01