scholarly journals Learning analytics in higher education: a preponderance of analytics but very little learning?

2021 ◽  
Vol 18 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Carolina Guzmán-Valenzuela ◽  
Carolina Gómez-González ◽  
Andrés Rojas-Murphy Tagle ◽  
Alejandro Lorca-Vyhmeister
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Content Analysis ◽  
Learning Analytics ◽  
Learning Processes ◽  
Publication Patterns ◽  
Community Of Learning ◽  
Analyse Data ◽  
Teaching Learning

AbstractIn a context where learning mediated by technology has gained prominence in higher education, learning analytics has become a powerful tool to collect and analyse data with the aim of improving students’ learning. However, learning analytics is part of a young community and its developments deserve further exploration. Some critical stances claim that learning analytics tends to underplay the complexity of teaching-learning processes. By means of both a bibliometric and a content analysis, this paper examines the publication patterns on learning analytics in higher education and their main challenges. 385 papers that were published in WoScc and SciELO indexes between 2013 and 2019 were identified and analysed. Learning analytics is a vibrant and fast-developing community. However, it continues to face multiple and complex challenges, especially regarding students’ learning and their implications. The paper concludes by distinguishing between a practice-based and management-oriented community of learning analytics and an academic-oriented community. Within both communities, though, it seems that the focus is more on analytics than on learning.

Blended Learning towards Social Capital in Higher Education

2013 ◽  
pp. 664-672
Author(s):  
Michela Freddano
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Social Capital ◽  
Blended Learning ◽  
New Technologies ◽  
Social Research ◽  
Learning Processes ◽  
Participatory Processes ◽  
Faculty Of Education ◽  
Teaching Learning ◽  
The University

This chapter focuses on blended learning towards social capital by showing the experience of Methodology of Social Research II, the blended learning training course held at the Faculty of Education of the University of Genoa (A.Y. 2010/2011). Blended learning engages disciplinary, technical, and relational skills so that human capital and social capital are empowered. The evidence is that in higher education blended learning empowers teaching/learning processes and student achievement providing active student engagement into participatory processes promoted in educational and evaluation activities, involving students in balanced relationships with peers and teacher facilitated by new technologies and tutorship.

Sustainable Blended-Learning in HEI

2011 ◽  
pp. 302-323 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paula Peres ◽  
Sandra Ribeiro ◽  
Célia Tavares ◽  
Luciana Oliveira ◽  
Manuel Silva
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Educational Technology ◽  
Education Institution ◽  
Learning Processes ◽  
Web Technologies ◽  
Innovation In Education ◽  
New Learning ◽  
Learning Scenarios ◽  
Teaching Learning

This chapter aims to demonstrate how PAOL - Unit for Innovation in Education, a project from ISCAP - School of Accounting and Administration of Oporto - Institute Polytechnic of Oporto, Portugal - prompted new educational initiatives and new learning scenarios at a Higher Education Institution. Furthermore, it will demonstrate PAOL’s lines of intervention through an extensive analysis based on the 6 years of experience that this unit has in the educational technology field; a project that began small but that, due to the force of innovation, has progressively conquered new adepts. Therefore the unit described in this chapter relates all these factors, as a whole, capable of attaining changes that influence mentalities and methodologies, overcoming cultural and technical barriers. This case study can serve as a catalyst, potentiating the creation of new multi-faceted projects in the scope of web technologies in higher education teaching-learning processes.

The Wheel of Competencies to Enhance Student-Teacher Role Awareness in Teaching-Learning Processes

2021 ◽  
pp. 48-77
Author(s):  
Flávia Pires Rodrigues
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Blended Learning ◽  
Action Plan ◽  
Learning Processes ◽  
Future Teacher ◽  
Teacher Role ◽  
Mutual Awareness ◽  
Reflective Questions ◽  
Teaching Learning ◽  
Coaching Approach

In this chapter, the wheel of competencies was used for enhancing educators and students' mutual awareness within the teaching-learning processes. This chapter described how teachers could use this tool in their opening class to build rapport and confidence as future teachers in higher education. The competencies reported are from a post-graduate discipline for students in Dentistry and Veterinary at the UNIP-Paulista University of São Paulo in Brazil, named “Higher Education Teaching Skills,” as a mandatory part of their curriculum. The coaching approach applied in this discipline included reflective questions, discussions in groups, plenaries, and the wheel of competencies. The idea is to make the students aware of coaching tools associated with blended learning, which is the teaching-learning philosophy of the discipline. At the closing class, the students can build an action plan as a student or as a future teacher. Throughout the year, it is essential to follow these competencies to improve the students' confidence.

scholarly journals Cognition Developing of Computer Higher Education Students Through Gamification in the Algorithm Teaching-Learning Process

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tiago do Carmo Nogueira ◽  
Eudes de Souza Campos ◽  
Deller James Ferreira
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Cognitive Development ◽  
Teaching Method ◽  
Logical Reasoning ◽  
Learning Processes ◽  
Traditional Teaching ◽  
Education Students ◽  
Reasoning Test ◽  
Process Studies ◽  
Teaching Learning

The scientific logical reasoning became an important skill in the students' cognitive development in algorithm teaching-learning processes, stimulating their reasoning and creativity. From this perspective, gamification has been adopted as a mediating tool in this process. Studies report that the inclusion of gamification in algorithm teaching-learning processes stimulates the students to develop new skills, making the knowledge more efficient. Therefore, this paper's purpose is to measure and understand the cognitive development and the experiences lived by students at the addition of gamification in algorithm teaching, evaluating the scientific logical knowledge acquired by them. Consequently, 44 computer higher education students were selected. They were divided into two groups: students that used the Gamification-Mediated Algorithm Teaching Method and those who participated in the traditional teaching method. To evaluate the cognitive development between these two groups, the Scientific Logical Reasoning Test was applied. The results showed that a significant number of students that used the Gamification-Mediated Algorithm Teaching Method reached the transitory intermediary and transitory scientific knowledge levels, with greater right answer rates. We also noticed that both genders gave more right answers using the gamification-mediated algorithm teaching method.

scholarly journals Application of Learning Analytics to Improve Higher Education

2021 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 1
Author(s):  
Carlos Llopis-Albert ◽  
Francisco Rubio
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Learning Analytics ◽  
Chemical Engineering ◽  
Learning Experience ◽  
Big Data Analytics ◽  
Data Analyst ◽  
Digital Era ◽  
The Subject ◽  
And Performance ◽  
Teaching Learning

<p>In the digital era, the teacher assumes very diverse roles among which are to be an adviser, a generator of multimedia content, and more recently a data analyst. Big data analytics may play a major role in Higher Education for all the agents involved, the teachers and educators, the students themselves and the managers or heads of university centers. This paper applies learning analytics to the subject of Theory of Machines and Strength of Materials of the bachelor's degree in Chemical Engineering at Universitat Politècnica de València (Spain). The aim of analyzing the available information is to improve teachers’ actions and communication, to enhance resource efficiency, to assess classroom procedures, the achievement of transversal competences, the student typology and their results, or the attitudes and commitment they acquire with the subject taught. Results show the existence of niches with competitive advantages, improvements in the quality and performance of the teaching-learning experience.</p>

scholarly journals Practice Perspectives on Learning Analytics in Higher Education

2019 ◽  
pp. 45-56
Author(s):  
Geraldine Torrisi-Steele ◽  
Victor X. Wang ◽  
Joy Galaige
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Learning Theory ◽  
Learning Analytics ◽  
Teaching Practice ◽  
Learning Experiences ◽  
Technical Development ◽  
Teaching Staff ◽  
Teaching Learning ◽  
Value Of Learning ◽  
Significant Effort

Learning analytics have taken higher education by the proverbial “storm.” Universities primarily employ learning analytics at the level of metrics to satisfy institutional requirements but are also investing significant effort in technical development. In the domain of teaching, learning analytics are making an appearance but are much less developed than in institutional or technical domains. On the basis of the potential of learning analytics to inform teaching practice and thus improve learning experiences, course instructors are now encouraged to use learning analytics at classroom level. Early forages are giving mixed results, and some confusion reigns among teaching staff in relation to the usability/value of learning analytics. The fundamental premise of the present chapter is that if potential of learning analytics to improve learning experiences is to be realized, then learning analytics must shift further into the practice domain, and this requires the projection of learning theory onto learning analytics.

scholarly journals The evolving field of learning analytics research in higher education

2020 ◽  
Vol 36 (2) ◽  
pp. 1-7
Author(s):  
Megan Axelsen ◽  
Petrea Redmond ◽  
Eva Heinrich ◽  
Michael Henderson
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Student Retention ◽  
Student Learning ◽  
Outcome Measures ◽  
Diagnostic Tool ◽  
Learning Analytics ◽  
Learning Processes ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
The World ◽  
The Way

Over the last decade the deployment and use of learning analytics has become routine in many universities around the world. The ability to analyse the way students interact with technology has demonstrated significant value for providing insights into student learning and there are now a wide range of uses for learning analytics in education. From use as a diagnostic tool, to a method for prediction, learning analytics in higher education has an emphasis on a wide range of outcome measures, including student retention, progression, attainment, performance, mastery, employability and engagement. In exploring how learning analytics can improve learning practice by transforming the ways we support learning processes, this editorial highlights some of the learning analytics research that has been published in AJET to date.

scholarly journals The Limits of Leadership as a Barrier to Quality Assurance in Higher Education in Algeria

2021 ◽  
Vol 35 (1) ◽  
pp. 215-228
Author(s):  
Wissam Belimane ◽  
Amina Chahed
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Quality Assurance ◽  
Content Analysis ◽  
Qualitative Approach ◽  
Major Constraint ◽  
Analysis Technique ◽  
Analyse Data ◽  
Lack Of Commitment ◽  
Main Barrier

Abstract Since 2010, Quality Assurance (QA) has been officially adopted and has become a priority of the Higher Education (HE) system in Algeria. This study is part of this framework and aims to explore the role of leadership in the QA process as perceived by Quality Management Managers (QMRs). It is based on a qualitative approach through interviews with 27 QMRs from different institutions. Content analysis technique was used to analyse data. The results show that QMRs consider the lack of commitment and involvement of institutions’ higher management as a major constraint to the success of quality processes. The study reveals that the main barrier to QA is related to the limitations of institutions’ governance, which do not promote autonomy and effectiveness. The study suggests that two elements seem to be crucial: autonomy and training/awareness of institutions’ higher managers. Those elements are closely linked and could be at the origin of the success or failure of quality mechanisms.

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