SAAIR Learning Analytics Special Interest Group (SAAIR LA-SIG)
Background
In 2016 Juan-Claude Lemmens and Michael Henn wrote: “Long & Siemens (2011:34) call analytics at the level of the individual student and their learning, Learning Analytics, and define it as “the measurement, collection, analysis and reporting of data about learners and their contexts, for purposes of understanding and optimizing learning and the environments in which it occurs. Learning analytics are largely concerned with improving learner success”. Chattiet al. (2012) consolidate the differences in the views of various authors by emphasizing that the purpose of LA is to convert educational data into useful actions to foster learning. In recent years, LA has emerged as a specific focus area in IR and has evolved as a critical entry point on student data to gain a better insight into the student learning experience. What makes LA unique is the fact that it harnesses real-time data about student performance and analyses the data in a short return time in order to enable institutions to provide custom-made interventions for individual students before it is too late for them to benefit from such interventions (Czerkawski 2015; Dietz-Uhler & Hurn 2013; Elias 2011).” It frames the purpose of the Special Interest Group on Learning Analytics – SAAIR LA-SIG. The purpose of the SIG is to bring together people and practitioners that look at learning analytics from a range of perspectives, research and practice, but mainly from the perspective of assisting institutions to implement appropriate initiatives in the Southern African context The strategic goals of the SIG are:
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