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Do Academics and University Administrators Really Know Better? The Ethics of Positioning Student Perspectives in Learning Analytics
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West, Deborah; Luzeckyj, Ann; Toohey, Danny; Vanderlelie, Jessica; Searle, Bill – Australasian Journal of Educational Technology, 2020
Increasingly learning analytics (LA) has begun utilising staff- and student-facing dashboards capturing visualisations to present data to support student success and improve learning and teaching. The use of LA is complex, multifaceted and raises many issues for consideration, including ethical and legal challenges, competing stakeholder views and…
Descriptors: College Faculty, College Administration, Ethics, Student Attitudes
A Tale of One City: Intra-Institutional Variations in Migrating VLE Platform
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Glover, Ian; Campbell, Anna; Latif, Farzana; Norris, Leona; Toner, James; Tse, Connie – Research in Learning Technology, 2012
City University London committed in 2009 to make Moodle the Virtual Learning Environment (VLE) at the core of a new Strategic Learning Environment (SLE) comprised of VLE, externally facing website and related systems such as video streaming and virtual classrooms. Previously, the WebCT VLE had been separate from most of the other systems at the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Virtual Classrooms, Video Technology, Integrated Learning Systems
New Approaches to Technology in HE Management
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Cobb, Chris – Perspectives: Policy and Practice in Higher Education, 2012
Most UK universities can trace their current management information systems back to significant investments made in the 1990s, largely fuelled by concerns about the millenium bug and a change from character interfaces to graphical user interfaces following the introduction of the personal computer. It was during this period that institutions also…
Descriptors: Management Information Systems, Foreign Countries, Computer Interfaces, Technology Uses in Education
Numbers Are Not Enough. Why e-Learning Analytics Failed to Inform an Institutional Strategic Plan
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Macfadyen, Leah P.; Dawson, Shane – Educational Technology & Society, 2012
Learning analytics offers higher education valuable insights that can inform strategic decision-making regarding resource allocation for educational excellence. Research demonstrates that learning management systems (LMSs) can increase student sense of community, support learning communities and enhance student engagement and success, and LMSs…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Computer Uses in Education, Participant Observation, Program Evaluation
Management Information Systems.
Finlayson, Jean, Ed. – Coombe Lodge Report, 1989
This collection of papers addresses key questions facing college managers and others choosing, introducing, and living with big, complex computer-based systems. "What Use the User Requirement?" (Tony Coles) stresses the importance of an information strategy driven by corporate objectives, not technology. "Process of Selecting a…
Descriptors: College Administration, Computer System Design, Evaluation Criteria, Foreign Countries
Whose System Is It, Anyway? Partnering with Faculty in Administrative System Projects
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Pennock, Lea; Bunt, Rick – EDUCAUSE Quarterly, 2005
Administrative systems renewal is not something the faculty will ever get excited about, but the authors believe there is much that can be done to render the academic community more receptive and even supportive. In this article, the authors use the implementation of their student information system (SIS) at the University of Saskatchewan (and a…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Information Systems, Computer System Design, Knowledge Representation