Dive Brief:
- As schools tie more data into their analytics programs, they are discovering new ways to use that information to support positive student outcomes.
- Campus Technology reports on eight ways colleges and universities are using analytics, including to identify faculty who are innovating in their classrooms and seeing great results because of it, to promote student ownership of learning by making certain data available to them, and to refocus faculty with the facts about their own courses and student behavior to lead to better decision-making.
- Schools are also using analytics to focus on high-impact institutional goals and stay updated about progress, they are getting access to more data from external partners, and they are making the data more accessible to all parties, including faculty.
Dive Insight:
Higher education is relatively late to the big data party when it comes to institutional strategy. Researchers on these campuses have been analyzing big data for years in their own work but faculty and administrators long stayed away from analyzing the data collected about students on campus. Now that outcomes are a bigger focus on campuses and politically, colleges and universities are turning the microscope.
The new Caliper Analytics Interoperability Standard offers the next frontier for data collection and analysis, giving higher education institutions a standard to seek out in third-party relationships, ensuring they can get access to student data in a compatible format.