Manage Your Own Learning Analytics

This book sheds light on the practice of learning analytics, illuminating how others approach their data analysis. At the beginning of the book, a 'prescriptive learning analytics planning model' gives straightforward instructions for people to follow. This book is organized into ten chapters, falling into four topical sections: Managing Learning Analytics (overview, instructional systems design (ISD), instructional design, and planning data analysis); Cognitive Performance Measurement Practices (classical test theory (CTT), Rasch measurement theory (RMT), Item response theory(IRT), Rasch Modeling Tools (research design, setting methodology); and Case Studies (corporate training settings, healthcare industry, and educational courseware design). This book is an important reference for: educational research community and instructional systems designers; corporate training developers; postgraduate course developers; and doctoral students.

Presents a prescriptive learning analytics planning model to guide the novice instructional systems designer Equips the readers with the information they need to carry out their own learning analytics, including: careful preparation of their testing instruments; developing an understanding of the importance of validating the measurement tools: recognizing a poorly designed instrument; and how to interpret the output files Demonstrates the Implementation of a Rasch Modelling Approach

Inhalt
Privacy-Driven Learning Analytics.- Introductory Analysis of the Rasch Model.- Social Media Analytics, Learning Analytics and Healthcare Industry: Risky Drinking.