Interviews from the Institutional Readiness for Learning Analytics Workshop, 10th of December 2015
Channel: Learning Analytics Community Europe
Date: 2016-01-27

The LACE project in collaboration with University of Amsterdam organised the 1st Institutional Readiness Day for Learning Analytics in Amsterdam to explore the advantages and challenges to implement learning analytics in Higher Education.

After a very successful Open Learning Analytics Summit in Amsterdam in 2014, we were this year focusing on institutional readiness. We addressed this in two ways:

1. Envisioning possible futures for learning analytics, in terms of their feasibility and desirability.
2. Examining practical solutions to challenges in implementing open learning analytics tools.  

The Institutional Readiness Day was attended by the following target groups:

-Groups and initiatives working towards educational standards, open architecture for education (e.g. Apereo, Jisc, SURF and national initiatives)

-Higher Education institution data managers and strategists
School agencies thinking about architectures, support frameworks
Ministries of education and regional managers

-Workplace: data managers from large organisations or networks
Policy makers or politicians concern with information policy (regional, national, European)

-Techno activists and others working on issues related to data protection and privacy, content provisioning for learning…

Speakers in the video are:
- Josh Baron, Assistant Vice President, Information Technology for Digital Education of Marist College, NY, USA about the Apereo Learning Analytics Initiative. 

- Garbor Kismihok, Stefan Mol, and Alan Berg reporting about internal Learning Analytics projects at the University of Amsterdam, NL. 

- Marieke de Wit, Project Manager on Learning Analytics at surfnet.nl

- Tore Hoel, on Data Interoperability and Ethics & Privacy studies of the LACE project.