Analytics

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Analytics

Learning analytics, defined as “the measurement, collection, analysis, and reporting of data about learners and their contexts, for purposes of understanding and optimising learning and the environments in which it occurs.”11

Integrated planning and advising systems (IPAS), defined as “an institutional capability to create shared ownership for educational progress by providing students, faculty, and staff with holistic information and services that contribute to the completion of a degree or other credential.”

Today most major LMS platforms have proprietary learning analytics capabilities that use data from the LMS and the student information system. These modules can be considered first-generation attempts. Future analytics modules could sit outside the LMS, while their dashboards could be viewable within the LMS or other applications using the Learning Tools Interoperability (LTI) specification.