Added by on 2012-08-22

There’s a big push to figure out what’s working in education. Whether its a fancy new app or an interesting new classroom setup, it’s hard to figure out what works until you try it.

That’s where education data comes in. We’re hard at work on gathering a lot of education data every day so we can help figure out what you should try and what you should avoid.

Lots of things happened since the last time I guest posted about learning analytics on Edudemic. One of the most popular questions I received was, “Exactly how will it all work?”

So we dug deep this time, and we found lots great research on the subject. And I think the best way to present it is with an infographic. Enjoy.

FROM AROUND THE WEB


  • http://theasideblog.blogspot.com/ theASIDEblog

    Today’s data problems stem from research being sequestered, denied to certain constituencies. It is released only to buttress political points and support test-based outcomes, rather than achievement-based solutions. An interesting point by the Dell Family Foundation is how enlightened data can enhance teacher creativity. In fact, “data-driven insights encourage innovative approaches to teaching.” By analyzing student strengths and weaknesses, educators can better know each pupil and can design unique strategies to inspire each child. This model of imaginative data is a far cry from the NCLB stencil that ranks children and schools solely on numerical scores, divorced from context and nuance. http://theasideblog.blogspot.com/2012/07/the-bigfoot-of-big-data-educational.html

  • http://www.oneonta.edu Jim Greenberg

    I’m feeling a bit cynical tonight…. Analytics is a presenting symptom of education’s failure to implement 50+ years of research. It is the fast food of the scholarship of teaching and learning. It raises ethical concerns about the collection and aggregation of large scale student data and finally, it is well known that aggregate data cannot predict the performance of any individual learner.

    I’m getting kind of tired of the business model grinding on education with the promise of a procurement in there somewhere for them.

    Somehow I know it won’t matter, but I do feel better.