Learning Analytics: Lots of Education Data... Now What? | Eclectic Technology | Scoop.it

"What is learning analytics – as a field of study, as a practice, as a set of tools, as a way to collect and analyze educational data? What are we tracking, and to what end?

This article provides a working definition and then explores a number of questions, raising the importation notion that learning analytics should be used to help us support "student learning."

A number of issues are also raised such as "Do we tell students what data we collect and how we are going to use it? Do students dontrol and do they own their learning data?"