Confronting Big Data and Learning Analytics

ALT-C 2012

Sheila MacNeillAssistant Director

Big data and analytics in education

Shift from data collecting to data connecting Develop data informed mind–sets Integration of multiple (structured and unstructured) data

sources Management and use of real-time data

((http://blogs.cetis.ac.uk/cetisli/2011/12/14/big-data-and-analytics-in-education-and-learning/)

JISC Cetis view of the landscape

Analytics Reconnoitre

Practical guidance of/for uses of analytics Who, why, what, where, when and how Audience: first movers and early adopters Topics: whole institutional issues, research, teaching and

learning, legal and ethical issues, skills & literacies, professional development, technology and infrastructure

http://jisc.cetis.ac.uk/topic/analytics