Learning Analytics

Learning Analytics is quintessential to monitor eLearning effectiveness and make improvements. Read all about it from our top eLearning authors or submit your article and share your valuable knowledge.

March 8, 2021 | Sponsored

Beyond Dashboards: 7 Tips For Developing A Successful And Sustainable Learning Analytics Strategy In The Post-Covid World

L&D stands poised at a moment of opportunity to up its game in using data and learning analytics, but many learning professionals are held back by worries about their own capability gaps and their organization’s readiness to embrace data-driven learning. This post gives seven valuable tips and two free planning tools to help with the creation of a successful and sustainable learning analytics strategy.
by Emma Whiteside
March 1, 2021 | Sponsored

Where Is Your Organization In Its Learning Analytics Journey? Here Are Your Map And Compass

Fear of the unknown holds L&D back from furthering learning analytics in organizations. But while caution is a useful instinct, the American Mythologist Joseph Campbell said, ‘we lose many opportunities and much of the adventure of life if we fail to support the curious explorer within us’. Every explorer needs a map and compass, so how do you find out exactly where you are on learning analytics – and where you need to go?
by Emma Whiteside
February 1, 2021 | Sponsored

Learning Analytics Examples: 5 Case Studies Of Data Insights In Action

The Experience API (xAPI for short) is far more than just an update to SCORM, the popular standard for tracking data from a learning management system. xAPI opens up a whole new world of possibilities for learning analytics. Examples of what real organizations are doing with it in real-life situations make it easier to grasp the scale of this advance and apply the learnings to your own situation.
by Emma Whiteside
January 18, 2021 | Sponsored

Tackling The Big Data Challenges: 5 Bear-Traps In Learning Analytics (And How To Avoid Them)

Research over the past few years has shown that while learning analytics and data are seen as a critical focus area for learning and development, learning professionals are not confident in their data skills and see big data challenges ahead as they respond to calls from the business to be more data-driven. Where are the potential pitfalls for L&D, and how should they avoid them?
by Emma Whiteside
January 11, 2021 | Sponsored

Taking Data To The Business: Learning Analytics And Your Organization

Learning professionals are increasingly looking to bring learning analytics to the centre of their practice. But to do so effectively they have to be clear-eyed about the challenges of communicating an evidence-based narrative about learning to time-poor executive stakeholders. Effective communication about learning data should start with understanding the organizational context within which those data will be received and acted upon, the wider arena of business analytics.
by Emma Whiteside
December 23, 2020

Leveraging Learner And Course Evaluation Data

As an IDer in higher education, I’m often asked how to effectively use course or learner evaluation data. In this article, I’ll explain how to select and design questions in course evaluations, how to analyze the results, and share practices to implement your findings.
by Holly Fiock