“For each person, make a note of areas of the websites listed below that you would recommend to them, and any resources or events that would help their understanding.“

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I would first of all direct all of the staff outlined to the excellent online seminar I attended in April 2020 hosted by Poquet et al. (2020). This seminar provides some useful background information on analytics in social networks, VLEs and relates these areas to learning design. It is also mentioned on the SOLAR (2020a) podcast and webinars page.

For our Professional Development Manager (PDM)

With a responsibility to source and co-ordinate the delivery of training materials, a subscription to the Journal of Learning Analytics, SOLAR (2020b) may be a valuable resource for the PDM. It would perhaps be too onerous on lecturing staff to keep up with developments via this journal.

The Higher Education section of the LACE project site (2020a) (although we are an FE college) may provide some interesting recent developments in analytics in education in general.

For out VP Curriculum / Student Experience (VP)

I may suggest that our VP review the International Conference on Learning analytics (LAK), detailed on SOLAR (2020). Institutional leaders are part of the suggested audience for this conference.

As the individual responsible for strategic decision proposals the LACE evidence hub (2020b) would be of interest to our VP. The learning outcomes, KPI and ethics subject areas may assist in such decision making. There is a newsletter subscription available to keep up with the latest developments.

Programmers

The SOLAR and LACE sites are more strategic decision making and staff training resources.

For our programmers, myself included, the Educational Data Mining (EDM) (2020) resources page provides example data which may provide useful in developing our own analytics models. There are commercial providers of data science in FE but it would be valuable for some of our programmers to have experience of EDM.

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References:

educationaldatamining.org (2020) Podcast and Webinars. (Online) Available at: https://www.solaresearch.org/community/podcast-webinars/ (Accessed: 4th July 2020).

Learning Analytics Community Exchange (LACE) (2020b) Higher Education. (Online) Available at: http://www.laceproject.eu/universities/ (Accessed: 4th July 2020).

Learning Analytics Community Exchange (LACE) (2020b) Learning Hub. (Online) Available at: http://evidence.laceproject.eu/(Accessed: 4th July 2020).

Poquet, S. And Chen B. (2020), Analyzing Learning and Teaching through the Lens of Networks. (Online), Available at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gEd95ILsBjc (Accessed 22nd April 2020)

Society for Learning Analytics Research (SOLAR) (2020) International Conference on Learning Analytics & Knowledge (LAK). (Online) Available at: https://www.solaresearch.org/events/lak/ (Accessed: 4th July 2020).

Society for Learning Analytics Research (SOLAR) (2020) International Conference on Learning Analytics & Knowledge (LAK). (Online) Available at: https://www.solaresearch.org/events/lak/ (Accessed: 4th July 2020).