Learning Analytics (LA) is a new promising field that is attracting the attention of education providers, including teachers, learning designers and academic directors. Researchers and practitioners are interested in learning analytics as it can provide insights from student data, for example, students’ learning processes, automatically identifying learners in need and visualising learners’ behaviour.
Learning analytics (LA) is a technology for enabling better decision-making by teachers, students, and other educational stakeholders by providing them with timely and actionable information about learning-in-process on an ongoing basis.
Professor Mark Brown is Director of the National Institute for Digital Learning (NIDL) based at Dublin City University (DCU) interviewed by LACE project's Maren Scheffel at EC-TEL conference in Toledo, Spain, September 2015