What Should Instructional Designers Know About Learning Analytics?

• In Event: D&D - Learners' Analysis

Short Description

In this presentation we’ll explore issues of designing instructional technology that utilizes learning analytics—an emerging field of practice and research unfamiliar to many instructional designers. Drawing from projects in which we are currently engaged and using an adapted framework from academic analytics, we’ll discuss key decisions that instructional designers need to make that are pertinent to the selection, capture, visualization, and use of data within an instructional system.

Authors

• Randall Davies, BYU

• Rob Nyland, Brigham Young University

• Robert Bodily, Brigham Young University

• John Chapman, Brigham Young University

• Brian Jones, Brigham Young University

• Jay Young, Brigham Young University