learning analytics: educational administration considerations

Learning Analytics: Education Administration

Consideration

Dr. Janet Corral

@edtechcorral

What are ‘Analytics’?

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• Mining data associated with the administration of education

See Campbell & Oblinger, 2007

Academic Analytics

What is “learning analytics”?

Siemens, G., Gasevic, D., Haythornthwaite, C., Dawson, S., Shum, S. B., Ferguson, R., . . . Baker, R. S. J. D. (2011)

LMS

Exams

Lecture Capture

ePortfolio

Admissions

What is medical education gathering?

What are we assuming?

• Clicking• Active vs passive choices• Learning vs. Interest – “What is there?”• Tool is ready to learn with and from• Obedience• Analytical tools readiness

What are we interpreting?

• Activity in some form…– Usage – Learning

• With some interpretation…– Inference– Assumptions– Hope

Analysis of Learning: What are we conceptualizing?

• Positivist, deterministic• Intervention, Treatment• Complex• Dynamic• Co-influencing• Participatory, Proximal, Distal• Activity• Expertise

Transparency and Literacy

• Of data collection• Of reporting the data back to user (faculty, student)

• Helping user (faculty, student) make sense of the data

Just “our” systems?• Across institutional and personal web

applications (Retalis et al, 2006)

– Limited view of learning– Expanded view of learning

Siemens, G., Gasevic, D., Haythornthwaite, C., Dawson, S., Shum, S. B., Ferguson, R., . . . Baker, R. S. J. D. (2011)

Ethics

• Stealth assessment• Reported forms• Data ownership, access, expiration

WHERE WE MIGHT LEAD

Integrating Data Sets

Competency or Expertise?

Exams

Simulation

Logbook

Data Ownership

http://www.healthcareitnews.com/news/patients-sue-walgreens-making-money-their-data

Analytics Literacy & Skills

Student Education

As a Student• Formative progress• Summative evaluation• Predictive• Algorithms, Transparency• Meaning

As a Doctor• EVBM• Rx• Predictive medicine

Patient Literacy & Skills

http://www.slideshare.net/PewInternet/2012-1-12-12-rise-of-epatients-providence-st-joseph-medical-centerpptx

Analytics Literacy & Skills

Patient Education

Health literacy –

EVBM

Health literacy - Provider

Privacy

Ownership/Advocate

Participate!

Thank you!

Janet CorralFaculty, Educational Informatics