Edited by Tabitha Naisiko, Wednesday, 30 Oct 2019, 14:34
The learning analytics in the literature have in this task been highlighted to solve challenges of learning with regards to resource/service utilization, level of risks and outcome. Learning analytics in the case have been predictive. Information on this is used to improve enrollment, fundraising, feedback, predicting, counseling, and establishment of facilities. However, there are issues as regards issues of privacy, ethics and patronage, institutional rules and generalisations or taking a holistic view.
Based on the above, in relation to the recommendations we gave in activity three, I find Hazel Church’s caution on taking longitudinal learning analytics such that policies are not based on narrow perspectives resulting from short term analytics very important. I would warn again generalising analytics if the data is to be used for policy formulation. This is because naturally institutional and people’s realities are varied and caused by varied reasons. It is this important to think of how to manage diversity [calling for qualitative approaches which analytics do not seem to capture].
Use and challenges of learning analytics
The learning analytics in the literature have in this task been highlighted to solve challenges of learning with regards to resource/service utilization, level of risks and outcome. Learning analytics in the case have been predictive. Information on this is used to improve enrollment, fundraising, feedback, predicting, counseling, and establishment of facilities. However, there are issues as regards issues of privacy, ethics and patronage, institutional rules and generalisations or taking a holistic view.
Based on the above, in relation to the recommendations we gave in activity three, I find Hazel Church’s caution on taking longitudinal learning analytics such that policies are not based on narrow perspectives resulting from short term analytics very important. I would warn again generalising analytics if the data is to be used for policy formulation. This is because naturally institutional and people’s realities are varied and caused by varied reasons. It is this important to think of how to manage diversity [calling for qualitative approaches which analytics do not seem to capture].