Institutions experimenting with learning analytics
Better insight into the teaching process, targeted feedback to students and, ultimately, an improvement in education; that is the aim of learning analytics. The opportunities are huge, but how does a course or a lecturer apply them successfully? SURF therefore carried out experiments working with 12 lecturers at 6 education institutions.
The infrastructure
SURF developed a learning analytics infrastructure, an experimental environment
within which the institutions could take their first steps in the area of learning
analytics.
The experiments during 2016 and 2017
The first round of experiments took place in 2016. Lecturers at both the VU
Amsterdam and the HU University of Applied Sciences Utrecht were the first to
experience learning analytics in SURF’s experimental environment. In the second
round in 2017, lecturers from the VU Amsterdam, Windesheim University of Applied
Sciences, TU/e Eindhoven University of Technology, Zuyd University of Applied
Sciences and Noorderpoort were all involved.