Overview and Introduction of Learning Analytics Research in Higher Education

Abstract

With the development of information and communication technologies (ICT), ICT has been used in various situations in education. Thus, enormous amounts of data in educational and learning activities are rapidly accumulating regardless of inside or outside the class. This paper introduces the research on learning analytics for the purpose of accumulation and analysis of education and learning process data. In addition, as an example, this paper describes some researches on Learning Analytics at Kyushu University for educational improvement and learning support.