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Learning Analytics

At UBC Sauder, Learning Analytics plays an important role in all aspects of the teaching cycle including course planning, teaching, and assessment. Learning analytics enables data-driven decisions to support your teaching practice.

What is Learning Analytics?

The Society for Learning Analytics Research (SoLAR) defines learning analytics as:

“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”

Long, P., & Siemens, G. (2011). Penetrating the Fog: Analytics in Learning and Education. Educause Review, 31–40.

Canvas & Learning Data

Canvas has several tools available to access insights about student activity, including New Analytics, the ability to export your gradebook, and review quiz details (in Classic Quizzes). The Learning Services team has also developed some experimental tools that support the transformation or visualization of some Canvas data sources.

For more information, please contact help@sauder.ubc.ca.

Related Content

There is a UBC Learning Analytics project underway. The UBC Learning Analytics team is developing data infrastructure as well as learning analytics tools.

The Society for Learning Analytics Research (SoLAR) is an international organization that runs the largest Learning Analytics conference, and is responsible for the Journal of Learning Analytics. UBC is an institutional member of SoLAR.

The Learning Analytics and Visual Analytics (LAVA) Community is a group of researchers, practitioners, students, and teachers at primarily at UBC who are involved in various learning analytics and visual analytics projects.

References

Long, P., & Siemens, G. (2011). Penetrating the Fog: Analytics in Learning and Education. Educause Review, 31–40.

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