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INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF TECHNOLOGY ENHANCED LEARNING
Volume 4, Issue 5-6, Pages 304-317Publisher
INDERSCIENCE ENTERPRISES LTD
DOI: 10.1504/IJTEL.2012.051816
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academic analytics; action analytics; educational data mining; learning analytics; social learning analytics
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Learning analytics is a significant area of technology-enhanced learning that has emerged during the last decade. This review of the field begins with an examination of the technological, educational and political factors that have driven the development of analytics in educational settings. It goes on to chart the emergence of learning analytics, including their origins in the 20th century, the development of data-driven analytics, the rise of learningfocused perspectives and the influence of national economic concerns. It next focuses on the relationships between learning analytics, educational data mining and academic analytics. Finally, it examines developing areas of learning analytics research, and identifies a series of future challenges.
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