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Untangling connections between challenges in the adoption of learning analytics in higher education

Potential benefits of learning analytics (LA) for improving students’ performance, predicting students’ success, and enhancing teaching and learning practice have increasingly been recognized in higher education. However, the adoption of LA in higher education institutions (HEIs) to date remains spo...

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Autores principales: Alzahrani, Asma Shannan, Tsai, Yi-Shan, Iqbal, Sehrish, Marcos, Pedro Manuel Moreno, Scheffel, Maren, Drachsler, Hendrik, Kloos, Carlos Delgado, Aljohani, Naif, Gasevic, Dragan
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Publicado: Springer US 2022
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9582402/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36281258
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10639-022-11323-x
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author Alzahrani, Asma Shannan
Tsai, Yi-Shan
Iqbal, Sehrish
Marcos, Pedro Manuel Moreno
Scheffel, Maren
Drachsler, Hendrik
Kloos, Carlos Delgado
Aljohani, Naif
Gasevic, Dragan
author_facet Alzahrani, Asma Shannan
Tsai, Yi-Shan
Iqbal, Sehrish
Marcos, Pedro Manuel Moreno
Scheffel, Maren
Drachsler, Hendrik
Kloos, Carlos Delgado
Aljohani, Naif
Gasevic, Dragan
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description Potential benefits of learning analytics (LA) for improving students’ performance, predicting students’ success, and enhancing teaching and learning practice have increasingly been recognized in higher education. However, the adoption of LA in higher education institutions (HEIs) to date remains sporadic and predominantly small in scale due to several socio-technical challenges. To better understand why HEIs struggle to scale LA adoption, it is needed to untangle adoption challenges and their related factors. This paper presents the findings of a study that sought to investigate the associations of adoption factors with challenges HEIs face in the adoption of LA and how these associations are compared among HEIs at different scopes of adoption. The study was based on a series of semi-structured interviews with senior managers in HEIs. The interview data were thematically analysed to identify the main challenges in LA adoption. The connections between challenges and other factors related to LA adoption were analysed using epistemic network analysis (ENA). From senior managers’ viewpoints, ethical issues of informed consent and resistance culture had the strongest links with challenges of learning analytic adoption in HEI; this was especially true for those institutions that had not adopted LA or who were in the initial phase of adoption (i.e., preparing for or partially implementing LA). By contrast, among HEIs that had fully adopted LA, the main challenges were found to be associated with centralized leadership, gaps in the analytic capabilities, external stakeholders, and evaluations of technology. Based on the results, we discuss implications for LA strategy that can be useful for institutions at various stages of LA adoption, from early stages of interest to the full adoption phase.
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spelling pubmed-95824022022-10-20 Untangling connections between challenges in the adoption of learning analytics in higher education Alzahrani, Asma Shannan Tsai, Yi-Shan Iqbal, Sehrish Marcos, Pedro Manuel Moreno Scheffel, Maren Drachsler, Hendrik Kloos, Carlos Delgado Aljohani, Naif Gasevic, Dragan Educ Inf Technol (Dordr) Article Potential benefits of learning analytics (LA) for improving students’ performance, predicting students’ success, and enhancing teaching and learning practice have increasingly been recognized in higher education. However, the adoption of LA in higher education institutions (HEIs) to date remains sporadic and predominantly small in scale due to several socio-technical challenges. To better understand why HEIs struggle to scale LA adoption, it is needed to untangle adoption challenges and their related factors. This paper presents the findings of a study that sought to investigate the associations of adoption factors with challenges HEIs face in the adoption of LA and how these associations are compared among HEIs at different scopes of adoption. The study was based on a series of semi-structured interviews with senior managers in HEIs. The interview data were thematically analysed to identify the main challenges in LA adoption. The connections between challenges and other factors related to LA adoption were analysed using epistemic network analysis (ENA). From senior managers’ viewpoints, ethical issues of informed consent and resistance culture had the strongest links with challenges of learning analytic adoption in HEI; this was especially true for those institutions that had not adopted LA or who were in the initial phase of adoption (i.e., preparing for or partially implementing LA). By contrast, among HEIs that had fully adopted LA, the main challenges were found to be associated with centralized leadership, gaps in the analytic capabilities, external stakeholders, and evaluations of technology. Based on the results, we discuss implications for LA strategy that can be useful for institutions at various stages of LA adoption, from early stages of interest to the full adoption phase. Springer US 2022-10-20 2023 /pmc/articles/PMC9582402/ /pubmed/36281258 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10639-022-11323-x Text en © The Author(s) 2022 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Open AccessThis article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article's Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article's Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) .
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Aljohani, Naif
Gasevic, Dragan
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