Learning Analytics for Long-term Faculty Culture Change

Much of the early applications of big data and learning analytics in education has been focused either changing individual courses or predicting and influencing student behavior. Typically, because of where the analytics projects sit administratively and the data that is accessible, there has been limited focus on faculty culture and influencing the attitudes of faculty toward their role in student success. Recent examples of moves in this direction have been faculty facing dashboards that provide faculty richer information on the students in their courses. In this talk, I will discuss both structural and strategic elements that have come together to allow UCI to focus on the connection between learning analytics and faculty culture at the institutional level.