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Adaptation and evaluation of a learning analytics dashboard to improve academic support at three Latin American universities

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Despite the success of academic advising dashboards in several higher educational institutions (HEI), these dashboards are still under-explored in LatinAmerican HEI’s. To close this gap, three different Latin American universities adapted an existing advising dashboard, originally deployed at the KU Leuven to their own context. In all three cases, the context was the main ruling factor to these adaptations. In this paper, we describe these adaptions using a framework that focuses on four different elements of the context: Objectives, Stakeholders, Key moment, and Interactions. Evaluation of the adapted dashboards in the three different Latin American universities are conducted through pilots. This evaluation shows the value of the dashboard approach in different contexts in terms of satisfaction, usefulness, and impact in academic decision-making and advising tasks. The main contribution of this paper is the systematic reporting of the adaptations to an academic advising dashboard and showing the value of an academic advising dashboard on academic decision-making and advising tasks.
Journal: British Journal of Educational Technology
ISSN: 0007-1013
Issue: 4
Volume: 51
Publication year:2020
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BOF-publication weight:3
CSS-citation score:1
Authors:International
Authors from:Higher Education
Accessibility:Open