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| Engagement tool website hits<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n <\/div>\n \u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n University of\u00a0<\/span>Kentucky. Use\u00a0fancy\u00a0\u201cappliance\u201d from SAP to look at data in near realtime, push out admin reports to admins and\u00a0\u201chow am i doing\u201d reports to students via mobile App. Academic advisers get iPad app that compiles advisees data\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n \u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n South Orange County Community College District \u201cSherpa\u201d mobile app, is a recommendation engine like Netflix or Amazon, helps students choose courses , services, information<\/div>\n <\/div>\n Coppin State University implemented recently Blackboard Analytics for Learn, providing a slew of dashboards for Deans, Chairs, faculty and students. Mesa community college has taken it one step further, using Blackboard Analytics Cadillac product that ingests SIS data<\/div>\n <\/div>\n University of Maryland, Baltimore County using \u00a0Blackboard Analytics for Learn, explore the LMS in much finer detail and assess the impact of faculty course redesign training. This is the sort of thing CTL could benefit from<\/div>\n <\/div>\n Barriers: Analytics are hard. Sherpa people called in 3 outside mathematicians to help model. Kentucky hired 3 PhDs. Analytics require buy-in \u2014 many presenters were CIOs, Vice this or that; provosts and presidents<\/div>\n <\/div>\n Other Stuff<\/div>\n <\/div>\n Usual proclamations that education must change to meet a new culture radically altered by technology (Keynote Sir Ken Robinson)<\/div>\n <\/div>\n Online learning has radically challenged the traditional institution which must react nimbly despite economic pressures. This has increased the need for strong and engaged CIOs. IF yours is not, you are doomed (Speeding Up on Curves\u00a0Bradley Wheeler Vice President for IT and CIO\u00a0<\/a>Indiana University\u00a0WINNER: 2013 EDUCAUSE Leadership Award)<\/div>\n <\/div>\n Massive online Game play teases the emotions, fosters cooperation and generally creates a state of being online learning cannot match. Education can learn a lot from game developers<\/div>\n <\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" EDUCAUSE Takeaways Analytics Analytics is the use of data, statistical and quantitative methods, and explanatory and predictive models to allow organizations and individuals to gain insights into and act on complex issues. The use of digital tools, especially LMSs and … Continue reading |