The assistant vice president for analytics at Excelsior College explains the value of training and the importance of diverse skills.
EDTECH: HOW SHOULD COLLEGES EVALUATE WHETHER THEY NEED A CDO OR EQUIVALENT?
DANIELS: I don’t think every college has the need or capacity. I’m thinking of the small, liberal arts college that has a fairly small population. They already have a lot of face-to-face time with students. They should look at basic statistics to inform decisions on some level, such as keeping track of their student success rate and whether certain programs are doing better than others. But they don’t necessarily need an elaborate process like I’ve described. In terms of whether colleges should hire an analytics expert, they need to look at the top strategic challenges they are facing. Is it something that analytics could inform and drive decisions on? You have to sit on a large amount of data to have that level of program. Colleges probably have someone with an institutional research capacity doing analytics on some level, but it’s hard for me to say where the tipping point would be.
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onto Learning Analytics, Educational Data Mining, Adaptive Learning April 23, 2017 7:09 PM
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