Education 2.0 & 3.0

"A global study into the murky world of student data during COVID-19 lockdowns finds more than 4 million Australian school students were at risk of unprecedented tracking and surveillance during remote learning ..."

Via Leona Ungerer

The 2020 list of EDUCAUSE’s Top 10 IT Issues provides evidence that the higher education IT community is increasingly focused on using technology to better understand students and rethink systems, culture and process to improve student success. This focus is especially critical when it comes to using student data to improve retention and completion rates.

To develop the capabilities and systems that can provide students with personalized, timely support, institutions need to understand how data technology, such as predictive analytics, can address the factors that lead to student success. They also must know how to use information from institutional data to introduce changes that promote sustainable, effective and efficient practices, while considering students’ experiences and needs as their starting point.

Via Elizabeth E Charles

Higher ed students believe universities can improve in the next 10 years by tracking their information.

Via Elizabeth E Charles

"Colleges and universities collect and analyze real-time student data to identify and support at-risk students ..."

Via Leona Ungerer

K–12 schools are evolving their use of data analytics tools as pedagogies such as personalized learning focus on more immediate feedback and the “whole student.” 

“We need the data that will help us make better, faster decisions,” said Cathy Cavanaugh, principal program manager for learning research and analytics at Microsoft, in a Jan. 29 workshop at the Future of Education Technology Conference. “We want to do what we can and make the right decisions to affect trends moving in the right direction.”

This means schools will need to reassess the data they choose to collect to find the best measurements to help their students, said Cavanaugh.

Via John Evans