How to Leverage Your LMS Data to Make Better Business Decisions

James Nicolson, Product Manager| Nim Parmar, Marketing Coordinator

How to Leverage Your LMS Data to Make Better Business Decisions

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James NicolsonProduct Manager

Nimritta ParmarMarketing Coordinator

• Audio• Question box• Poll questions• Post-webinar survey• Recording and slides

Housekeeping

Agenda

1.What is Learning Analytics?2.Approaching Your LMS Data3.Techniques for Implementing Learning Analytics4.Case Study: Learning Analytics in Action

Poll Question

Does your organization currently have a learning analytics system in place?

● Yes, and we are happy with it.● Yes, but it needs improvement.● No, and we don’t want one.● No, but we need one.

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What is it?

What is Learning Analytics?

MeasurementCollection

Analysis Reporting

Let’s use an analogy

● Website visits● Page views● Page open/ closes● Many other events

● Course progress● Content interactions● Quiz results● Course completion rate

Learning Management System

Does your organization currently have a budget for learning and analytics solutions and technologies?

• Yes, we do• No, we do not

Poll Question

From 2015 – 2016:

• 43.75% of corporate organizations increased their budget for learning analytics solutions

• 56.25% kept it the same• 0% decreased their budget

Some interesting statistics

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Making Sense of Your Learning DataApproaching

Your LMS Data

Approaching your LMS Data

Why?The outcome of the analysis of data, is information


Start with a strategy

The outcome of the analysis of data, is information

Why?


What are you trying to achieve? Instead of starting with what data you could or should access, start by working out what business goal you are looking to overcome.


Why?Start with a strategy


What?



Choosing the right KPI’s relies on a good understanding of what is important to an organization


What?Use KPI’s (Key Performance Indicators) to measure success


What?Some common KPI’s:

Course completion ✔

Grade ✔

Activity Score ✔ Quiz attempts ✔

Progress tracking ✔

Courses purchased ✔

Site logins ✔

Time spent engaged ✔


How?



Identify the analytics solution that allows you to access, manipulate and present your learning information to your requirement.


How?


Identify the data you need to answer these questions.


How?

Focus on identifying the data that will help answer your most pressing questions, and deliver on your strategic objectives.

TITLE SLIDETechniques for Implementing Learning Analytics

1. Approach your data through chunks of time

Techniques for Implementing Learning Analytics

2. Make an ongoing data plan• Analysis of your data on a regular basis is the best way to

measure improvements and outcomes


3. Have a vision for your data• How do you want your data to be presented?


4. How do you want to communicate and share your data?


5. Have a system in place for reflection and feedback


1.Start with a strategy 2.Use KPI’s to measure success3.Identify a reporting/analytics solution that gives you the

tools to achieve your goals.4.Approach your data through increments of time5.Have an ongoing data plan 6.Use charts to summarize your data7.Feed enhancements back into the learning system

Key takeaways

Most organizations lack the skills,and knowledge needed to use learning

analytics.

Common Challenge:

Data and analytics technologies such as LMS reporting solutions help bridge the

gap in skills. Organizations with these technologies in place are able to leverage

analytics without hiring designated employees.

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Case Studies: Learning Analytics in Action

Case Study: Fluidigm

Already, we are seeing a growing enthusiasm for our ability to streamline and benchmark training that can be applied equally across all groups.

Nimritta Parmar

[email protected] - do you have examples of reports that Fluidigm and Freedom mobile are using? I wonder if we can include some of these here, just at a very high level, without giving away too much information.

Case Study: Freedom Mobile

We can now make better business decisions in terms of prioritizing projects, standardizing, and processing. If we need to have a resolution for reinforcement, we can act quickly. This is a big plus for us in terms of business effectiveness.

• Freedom Mobile (formerly Wind Mobile)

Clients who are using data and analytics

Corporate & Technology clients

Healthcare & Education clients

Don’t be shy!

Any Questions?

• Resources will be sent out in our follow-up email• PowerPoint• Recording• Satisfaction Survey

Next Steps

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What is Learning Analytics?

“An educational application of web analytics aimed at learner profiling, a process of gathering and analyzing details of individual student interactions in online learning activities.

Nimritta Parmar

A more encompassing definition - we bring more than this with Zoola.

James Nicolson

I think we can remove this slide and just have the next one


Identify your targets


What?


If you could only work on improving one or two areas, which would you choose?


What?Identify your targets


Focus on identifying the data that will help answer your most pressing questions, and deliver on your strategic objectives.

Identify the data you need to answer these questions.


How?


This ensures you are collecting and measuring only what you need to answer your questions.


How?Which questions do you need to answerin order to achieve your goals?

Nimritta Parmar

Screenshots of Zoola

Outcomes

• Learner engagement – Monitoring how active learners are in a course

• Learner intervention – Identifying opportunities to jump in for struggling learners based on analyses of their learning data


If your data reveals that learners are spending a lot of time in courses, but their scores are still low, you can deduce that retention of learning material is low (Learner Intervention).

Adjust the learning process by including elements that might increase retention, like video, or face-to-face sessions, and monitor data to see how retention increases (Learner Engagement).

Outcomes


Analyzing learning data to make better business decisions

We can now make better business decisions in terms of prioritizing projects, standardizing, and processing. If we need to have a resolution for reinforcement, we can act quickly. This is a big plus for us in terms of business effectiveness.

• Freedom Mobile (formerly Wind Mobile)