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Learning Analytics

Interdisciplinary resources about learning analytics, big data, and higher education presented as a living annotated bibliography for the DCCC community.

Following the Money Ed Tech and its Money Trail

Learning analytics systems constitute a significant investment of financial, human, and technology resources - and pose both financial and opportunity costs.

Market report summaries from PRNewswire and Technavio provide a glimpse into the value of the higher education learning analytics market -- projected to exceed $2 billion by 2020.  Is that $2 billion-worth of altruism?  If not, what return-on-investment are these venture capitalists anticipating?