Learning analytics is emerging as a way for institutions to use the rafts of data they routinely collect and hold for more than just reporting – to gain a better understanding of what they are doing, and so gain a strategic advantage. It is part of a growing academic trend towards big and open data: learning analytics is identified in Jisc’s 2012 Horizon Report as a key trend for education, and as having real potential to improve student experience.
Sero worked with University of Manchester and Hedtek on synthesis of the Jisc Activity Data Programme leading to a report authored by David Kay of Sero and Mark Van Harmelen of Hedtek entitled ‘Activity Data: Delivering benefits from the data deluge’.
Benefit: Capture and use data to enhance student outcomes