Charting design needs and strategic approaches for academic analytics systems through co-design

Yi-Shan Tsai, Shaveen Singh, Mladen Rakovic, Lisa Angelique Lim, Anushka Roychoudhury, Dragan Gasevic

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Abstract

Academic analytics focuses on collecting, analysing and visualising educational data to generate institutional insights and improve decision-making for academic purposes. However, challenges that arise from navigating a complex organisational structure when introducing analytics systems have called for the need to engage key stakeholders widely to cultivate a shared vision and ensure that implemented systems create desired value. This paper presents a study that takes co-design steps to identify design needs and strategic approaches for the adoption of academic analytics, which serves the purpose of enhancing the measurement of educational quality utilising institutional data. Through semi-structured interviews with 54 educational stakeholders at a large research university, we identified particular interest in measuring student engagement and the performance of courses and programmes. Based on the observed perceptions and concerns regarding data use to measure or evaluate these areas, implications for adoption strategy of academic analytics, such as leadership involvement, communication, and training, are discussed.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationLAK 2022 Conference Proceedings, Learning Analytics for Transition, Disruption and Social Change
Subtitle of host publicationThe Twelfth International Conference on Learning Analytics & Knowledge
EditorsAlyssa Friend Wise, Roberto Martinez-Maldonado, Isabel Hilliger
Place of PublicationNew York NY USA
PublisherAssociation for Computing Machinery (ACM)
Pages381-391
Number of pages11
ISBN (Electronic)9781450395731
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2022
EventInternational Learning Analytics & Knowledge Conference 2022 - Online, United States of America
Duration: 21 Mar 202225 Mar 2022
Conference number: 12th
https://dl.acm.org/doi/proceedings/10.1145/3506860 (Proceedings)
https://www.solaresearch.org/events/lak/lak22/

Conference

ConferenceInternational Learning Analytics & Knowledge Conference 2022
Abbreviated titleLAK22
Country/TerritoryUnited States of America
Period21/03/2225/03/22
Internet address

Keywords

  • academic analytics
  • co-design
  • educational quality
  • higher education
  • implementation strategy

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