Learning Analytics: Potential for Enhancing School Library Programs

Аннотация

Learning analytics has been defined 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” (1st Int’l Conf. 2010). The potential use of data and learning analytics in educational contexts has caught the attention of educators and policymakers at dramatically increasing rates over the past few years. In 2012 the U.S. Department of Education recognized the value of data mining and learning analytics with the issue brief Enhancing Teaching and Learning through Educational Data Mining and Learning Analytics. In addition, results from a 2013 survey of administrators conducted by the Center for Digital Education (CDE) indicated that 50 percent of administrators “already see improved student outcomes from its use” and 63 percent considered analytics “a priority” (CDE 2013).