Building institutional capacities and competencies for systemic learning analytics initiatives

Abstract

The last five years have brought an explosion of research in the learning analytics field. However, much of what has emerged has been small scale or tool-centric. While these efforts are vitally important to the development of the field, in order to truly transform education, learning analytics must scale and become institutionalized at multiple levels throughout an educational system. Many institutions are currently undertaking this grand challenge and this panel will highlight cases from: the University of Wisconsin System, the Society for Learning Analytics Research, the University of New England, and Rio Salado College.