Learning Analytics (LA) is a new promising field that is attracting the attention of education providers, including teachers, learning designers and academic directors. Researchers and practitioners are interested in learning analytics as it can provide insights from student data, for example, students’ learning processes, automatically identifying learners in need and visualising learners’ behaviour.
During last few years, possibilities to exploit learning analytics have gained attention in Finnish educational institutions. National development of learning analytics functionalities has emerged, but internationally focused conversation around the topic would enrich the national work.
SWARM is a cloud platform aimed at improving analytical reasoning in intelligence work. SWARM tries to improve analytical reasoning by improving collaboration within groups of analysts rather than by trying to structure their thinking in any particular way.