Leveraging Learning Analytics to Enhance School Library Media Programs

• In Event: SMT - Trends, Issues, and Avenues for Enhancing School Library Media Preparation Programs

Short Description

School media coordinators will be introduced to the concept of learning analytics and learn how they can utilize this emerging new field of instructional technology to enhance their professional practice, as well as strengthen their school library media programs. Learning analytics utilizes new technologies to better meet the diverse needs of learners through collecting and analyzing student data with the goal of optimizing learning environments for all students. In this session, participants will learn some of the basic principles of learning analytics and their current application in K-12 educational environments. Participants will then learn how those principles can be leveraged to enhance services to library patrons, meet their professional standards, and strengthen existing school library and technology programs with the ability to better meet student and teacher needs within their school communities. Participants will also learn how they can utilize learning analytics to inform their own action research agendas.

Authors

• Danielle Marie Cadieux Boulden, North Carolina State University

• Katherine Toriello, G.R. Whitfield School

• Susie Boles, North Carolina State University