Learning analytics evaluates data available on learner activity and performance, together with administrative data such as system logins and entry/exit swipe in records to guide individual feedback and targeted interventions.

The continuing growth of blended and online learning has shifted an ever-increasing proportion of learning activity offsite, away from reassuring presence of teachers and support staff. The guidance and support that teachers have always provided for learners in the classroom remains essential if...

Effective blended learning calls for all aspects of the design to be seen as parts of an integrated whole, all equally important in ensuring the best possible learner outcomes. Learning activities and experience, resources, online content, support, guidance and teacher oversight, assessment and...

Educational technology is a pedagogical tool like any other. It should not be used for the sake of it, but rather because it has greater impact on learning outcomes or other desirable education goals than alternatives.

This module examines how we currently use the data available to us, how we might find ways to develop it further to improve teaching and learning and what the emerging field of learning analytics might contribute.