Adoption of Data Analytics in Higher Education Learning and Teaching
Adoption of Data Analytics in Higher Education Learning and Teaching

Author: Dirk Ifenthaler

Publisher: Springer Nature

Published: 2020-08-10

Total Pages: 464

ISBN-13: 3030473929

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The book aims to advance global knowledge and practice in applying data science to transform higher education learning and teaching to improve personalization, access and effectiveness of education for all. Currently, higher education institutions and involved stakeholders can derive multiple benefits from educational data mining and learning analytics by using different data analytics strategies to produce summative, real-time, and predictive or prescriptive insights and recommendations. Educational data mining refers to the process of extracting useful information out of a large collection of complex educational datasets while learning analytics emphasizes insights and responses to real-time learning processes based on educational information from digital learning environments, administrative systems, and social platforms. This volume provides insight into the emerging paradigms, frameworks, methods and processes of managing change to better facilitate organizational transformation toward implementation of educational data mining and learning analytics. It features current research exploring the (a) theoretical foundation and empirical evidence of the adoption of learning analytics, (b) technological infrastructure and staff capabilities required, as well as (c) case studies that describe current practices and experiences in the use of data analytics in higher education.

Data Science in Education Using R
Data Science in Education Using R

Author: Ryan A. Estrellado

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2020-10-26

Total Pages: 315

ISBN-13: 1000200906

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Data Science in Education Using R is the go-to reference for learning data science in the education field. The book answers questions like: What does a data scientist in education do? How do I get started learning R, the popular open-source statistical programming language? And what does a data analysis project in education look like? If you’re just getting started with R in an education job, this is the book you’ll want with you. This book gets you started with R by teaching the building blocks of programming that you’ll use many times in your career. The book takes a "learn by doing" approach and offers eight analysis walkthroughs that show you a data analysis from start to finish, complete with code for you to practice with. The book finishes with how to get involved in the data science community and how to integrate data science in your education job. This book will be an essential resource for education professionals and researchers looking to increase their data analysis skills as part of their professional and academic development.

Fundamentals of Machine Learning for Predictive Data Analytics, second edition
Fundamentals of Machine Learning for Predictive Data Analytics, second edition

Author: John D. Kelleher

Publisher: MIT Press

Published: 2020-10-20

Total Pages: 853

ISBN-13: 0262361108

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The second edition of a comprehensive introduction to machine learning approaches used in predictive data analytics, covering both theory and practice. Machine learning is often used to build predictive models by extracting patterns from large datasets. These models are used in predictive data analytics applications including price prediction, risk assessment, predicting customer behavior, and document classification. This introductory textbook offers a detailed and focused treatment of the most important machine learning approaches used in predictive data analytics, covering both theoretical concepts and practical applications. Technical and mathematical material is augmented with explanatory worked examples, and case studies illustrate the application of these models in the broader business context. This second edition covers recent developments in machine learning, especially in a new chapter on deep learning, and two new chapters that go beyond predictive analytics to cover unsupervised learning and reinforcement learning.

Learning Analytics
Learning Analytics

Author: John R Mattox II

Publisher: Kogan Page Publishers

Published: 2016-09-03

Total Pages: 256

ISBN-13: 0749476362

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Faced with organizations that are more dispersed, a workforce that is more diverse and the pressure to reduce costs, CEOs and CFOs are increasingly asking what the return on investment is from training and development programmes. Learning Analytics provides a framework for understanding how to work with learning analytics at an advanced level. It focuses on the questions that training evaluation is intended to answer: is training effective and how can it be improved? It discusses the field of learning analytics, outlining how and why analytics can be useful, and takes the reader through examples of approaches to answering these questions and looks at the valuable role that technology has to play. Even where technological solutions are employed, the HR or learning and development practitioner needs to understand what questions they should be asking of their data to ensure alignment between training and business needs. Learning Analytics enables both senior L&D and HR professionals as well as CEOs and CFOs to see the transformational power that effective analytics has for building a learning organization, and the impacts that this has on performance, talent management, and competitive advantage. It helps learning and development professionals to make the business case for their activities, demonstrating what is truly adding value and where budgets should be spent, and to deliver a credible service to their business by providing metrics based on which sound business decisions can be made.

Big Data and Learning Analytics in Higher Education
Big Data and Learning Analytics in Higher Education

Author: Ben Kei Daniel

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2016-08-27

Total Pages: 287

ISBN-13: 3319065203

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​This book focuses on the uses of big data in the context of higher education. The book describes a wide range of administrative and operational data gathering processes aimed at assessing institutional performance and progress in order to predict future performance, and identifies potential issues related to academic programming, research, teaching and learning​. Big data refers to data which is fundamentally too big and complex and moves too fast for the processing capacity of conventional database systems. The value of big data is the ability to identify useful data and turn it into useable information by identifying patterns and deviations from patterns​.

A Hands-On Introduction to Data Science
A Hands-On Introduction to Data Science

Author: Chirag Shah

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2020-04-02

Total Pages: 459

ISBN-13: 1108472443

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An introductory textbook offering a low barrier entry to data science; the hands-on approach will appeal to students from a range of disciplines.

Deep Learning for Data Analytics
Deep Learning for Data Analytics

Author: Himansu Das

Publisher: Academic Press

Published: 2020-06-14

Total Pages: 218

ISBN-13: 0128197641

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Deep learning, a branch of Artificial Intelligence and machine learning, has led to new approaches to solving problems in a variety of domains including data science, data analytics and biomedical engineering. Deep Learning for Data Analytics: Foundations, Biomedical Applications and Challenges provides readers with a focused approach for the design and implementation of deep learning concepts using data analytics techniques in large scale environments. Deep learning algorithms are based on artificial neural network models to cascade multiple layers of nonlinear processing, which aids in feature extraction and learning in supervised and unsupervised ways, including classification and pattern analysis. Deep learning transforms data through a cascade of layers, helping systems analyze and process complex data sets. Deep learning algorithms extract high level complex data and process these complex sets to relatively simpler ideas formulated in the preceding level of the hierarchy. The authors of this book focus on suitable data analytics methods to solve complex real world problems such as medical image recognition, biomedical engineering, and object tracking using deep learning methodologies. The book provides a pragmatic direction for researchers who wish to analyze large volumes of data for business, engineering, and biomedical applications. Deep learning architectures including deep neural networks, recurrent neural networks, and deep belief networks can be used to help resolve problems in applications such as natural language processing, speech recognition, computer vision, bioinoformatics, audio recognition, drug design, and medical image analysis. Presents the latest advances in Deep Learning for data analytics and biomedical engineering applications. Discusses Deep Learning techniques as they are being applied in the real world of biomedical engineering and data science, including Deep Learning networks, deep feature learning, deep learning toolboxes, performance evaluation, Deep Learning optimization, deep auto-encoders, and deep neural networks Provides readers with an introduction to Deep Learning, along with coverage of deep belief networks, convolutional neural networks, Restricted Boltzmann Machines, data analytics basics, enterprise data science, predictive analysis, optimization for Deep Learning, and feature selection using Deep Learning

Formative Assessment, Learning Data Analytics and Gamification
Formative Assessment, Learning Data Analytics and Gamification

Author: Santi Caballé

Publisher: Morgan Kaufmann

Published: 2016-05-10

Total Pages: 384

ISBN-13: 0128036672

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Formative Assessment, Learning Data Analytics and Gamification: An ICT Education discusses the challenges associated with assessing student progress given the explosion of e-learning environments, such as MOOCs and online courses that incorporate activities such as design and modeling. This book shows educators how to effectively garner intelligent data from online educational environments that combine assessment and gamification. This data, when used effectively, can have a positive impact on learning environments and be used for building learner profiles, community building, and as a tactic to create a collaborative team. Using numerous illustrative examples and theoretical and practical results, leading international experts discuss application of automatic techniques for e-assessment of learning activities, methods to collect, analyze, and correctly visualize learning data in educational environments, applications, benefits and challenges of using gamification techniques in academic contexts, and solutions and strategies for increasing student participation and performance. - Discusses application of automatic techniques for e-assessment of learning activities - Presents strategies to provide immediate and useful feedback on students' activities - Provides methods to collect, analyze, and correctly visualize learning data in educational environments - Explains the applications, benefits, and challenges of using gamification techniques in academic contexts - Offers solutions to increase students' participation and performance while lowering drop-out rates and retention levels

Data Analytics and Psychometrics
Data Analytics and Psychometrics

Author: Hong Jiao

Publisher: IAP

Published: 2018-12-01

Total Pages: 268

ISBN-13: 1641133287

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The general theme of this book is to encourage the use of relevant methodology in data mining which is or could be applied to the interplay of education, statistics and computer science to solve psychometric issues and challenges in the new generation of assessments. In addition to item response data, other data collected in the process of assessment and learning will be utilized to help solve psychometric challenges and facilitate learning and other educational applications. Process data include those collected or available for collection during the process of assessment and instructional phase such as responding sequence data, log files, the use of help features, the content of web searches, etc. Some book chapters present the general exploration of process data in large-scale assessment. Further, other chapters also address how to integrate psychometrics and learning analytics in assessment and survey, how to use data mining techniques for security and cheating detection, how to use more assessment results to facilitate student’s learning and guide teacher’s instructional efforts. The book includes both theoretical and methodological presentations that might guide the future in this area, as well as illustrations of efforts to implement big data analytics that might be instructive to those in the field of learning and psychometrics. The context of the effort is diverse, including K-12, higher education, financial planning, and survey utilization. It is hoped that readers can learn from different disciplines, especially those who are specialized in assessment, would be critical to expand the ideas of what we can do with data analytics for informing assessment practices.

Deep Learning in Data Analytics
Deep Learning in Data Analytics

Author: Debi Prasanna Acharjya

Publisher: Springer Nature

Published: 2021-08-11

Total Pages: 271

ISBN-13: 3030758559

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This book comprises theoretical foundations to deep learning, machine learning and computing system, deep learning algorithms, and various deep learning applications. The book discusses significant issues relating to deep learning in data analytics. Further in-depth reading can be done from the detailed bibliography presented at the end of each chapter. Besides, this book's material includes concepts, algorithms, figures, graphs, and tables in guiding researchers through deep learning in data science and its applications for society. Deep learning approaches prevent loss of information and hence enhance the performance of data analysis and learning techniques. It brings up many research issues in the industry and research community to capture and access data effectively. The book provides the conceptual basis of deep learning required to achieve in-depth knowledge in computer and data science. It has been done to make the book more flexible and to stimulate further interest in topics. All these help researchers motivate towards learning and implementing the concepts in real-life applications.