Innovating Learning Analytics for Sustainable Higher Education

Dear Colleagues,

Learning analytics has offered much promise for learning and teaching in recent years, and it has gained a key place in debates around learning and teaching improvement. Indeed, it has become a field of study on its own, with its own conferences and journal. However, similar to the introduction of other technologies in education, the delivery on its promise has been slow, as educational institutions have not adopted learning analytics in a comprehensive manner, in a way that followed the initial expectations. This is partly because of the potential complexity of its institutional adoption. Implementing learning analytics in a meaningful and sustainable manner across an institution requires input from a wide range of stakeholders with a diverse range of expertise, which has often proven to be a challenge. However, the potential that learning analytics offers for the sustainable improvement of learning and teaching in educational institutions is important, and therefore deserves exploration of how best to implement and deploy learning analytics in a sustainable manner. 

The focus of this Special Issue is the sustainable deployment and implementation of learning analytics so as to improve and add value to learning and teaching in higher education, with a particular focus on learning design and pedagogy. 

The scope is limited to learning and teaching in higher education, in order to keep a clear focus for the Special Issue. The purpose of the Special Issue is to identify the practical ways in which learning analytics can be implemented in order to add value to learning and teaching, and thus to improve practice in a sustainable manner

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Dr. Henk Huijser
Mr. Roger Cook
Guest Editors

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