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A Faculty of Management team (A. Gruzd, M. Durier-Copp, S. Comber, M. Fitzgerald, D. Tay) has been awarded a $10,000 grant from the Dalhousie University Academic Innovation Fund to support academic innovation.

The project is entitled Learning Analytics: Enhancing Quality Teaching, Learning and Students’ Retention for Online and Blended Courses.

Learning Analytics is a valuable set of analytical, predictive and prescriptive methods that allows instructors and educational decision-makers to detect and understand patterns in learning behaviour and interactions, as well as to project outcomes and make intelligent decisions based on those projections. Learning analytics has been shown to have significant potential to utilize data generated by online education to improve learning outcomes. Data trails highlight social networks, collaborative learning patterns, learning dispositions and information about how learners understand and integrate key course concepts. These data can also provide predictive value about the types of learning patterns and activity that might flag risk of failure.

The project will contribute directly to the FOM Strategic Plan in enhancing the quality of teaching and maximizing the student learning experience.

The project will begin in the spring of 2013.