Thousands of students and teachers across Wales will benefit from cutting-edge data analytics technology to improve student engagement, retention and performance as a result of a funding boost to be announced today by the Higher Education Funding Council for Wales (HEFCW) and Jisc.
The purpose of this paper is to analyse data on first-year students’ needs regarding academic support services and reasons for their intention to leave the institution prior to degree completion.
Following the Data Matters conference, Paul Bailey from Jisc looks at the potential for learning analytics to improve teaching practice and the student experience.
Students interacting with universities often leave behind a virtual footprint that is used to gauge how well the university has managed to help and prepare these students. Learning analytics is using this data to analyze, measure, collate data, and more about the progress made by both students and educators.
Keeping students from dropping out depends on a retention strategy that is based on understanding why they are choosing to leave school in the first place.