After you have chosen an objective for applying learning analytics, it might still not be easy to choose a proper method to achieve this objective. Learning Analytics focuses on applying known methods and models to address issues affecting students learning process and the organizational learning system. The list of learning analytics methods is long, and would even be longer if all different variations of such methods were taken into account. However, it is important to get a higher level grasp of what kind of methods are out there and what are they good for.
For this purpose, we selected the list of methods presented below. By clicking each method, you get a description of what is it all about. In addition, in case you would like to read more about how the method was applied in learning analytics research, there are a few sources provided for most of the specific methods.
Prediction methods
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Structure discovery algorithms
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Relationship mining
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Distillation of data for human judgment
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Discovery with models
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Other methods
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