The Research and Analytics team provides expertise to support learning analytics research or implement learning analytics-based interventions to address students' needs in your course, department, or college. The team is available to support you throughout the research process. We can help outline your research questions and provide consultations on the designs of your study, data collection, and analysis. We can also collaborate with instructors who want to submit a proposal leveraging learning analytics for an external funding.
Learning analytics is the measurement, collection, analysis, and reporting of data about learners and their contexts, for purposes of understanding and optimizing learning and the environments in which it occurs (SoLAR, 2011).
To support learning analytics research, Research and Analytics provides the Iowa learning analytics (LA) umbrella IRB. The purpose of this umbrella IRB is to support Iowa faculty researchers who wish to explore the role and impact of learning analytics in teaching and learning. The Iowa LA umbrella IRB provides faculty researchers with a simpler process of IRB application and delivers de-identified data to answer research questions. Research under this umbrella should be focused on student learning and support, including improvement of the teaching and learning environment.
To start the process, please follow the steps below.
Step One
Step Two
- Make an appointment with Research and Analytics to discuss your research and needed data.
Step Three
- Complete and submit the learning analytics umbrella abstract to Research and Analytics.
After your abstract is approved by IRB, Research and Analytics will deliver de-identified research data to you.
Learning Analytics Network
- The Society for Learning Analytics Research (SoLAR) is an inter-disciplinary network of leading international researchers who are exploring the role and impact of analytics on teaching, learning, training, and development. SoLAR has been active in organizing the International Conference on Learning Analytics & Knowledge (LAK) and the Learning Analytics Summer Institute (LASI), launching multiple initiatives to support collaborative and open research around learning analytics, promoting the publication and dissemination of learning analytics research, and advising and consulting with state, provincial, and national governments.
- EDUCAUSE Student Success Analytics (SSA) Practitioners Community Group (CG) was created as a forum for people from educational institutions, organizations, and providers serving them who are actively planning or implementing analytics initiatives aimed at improving student success. The goal of the CG is to create a network of practitioners to share stories and results so that we can benefit from each other’s experiences.
References
Long, P., Siemens, G., Conole, G., & Gasevic, D. (2011). Proceedings of the first international conference on learning analytics and knowledge, presented at LAK 2011, Banff, AB, Canada.
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