Involving Stakeholders in Learning Analytics: Opportunity or Threat for Learning Analytics at Scale?

This article introduces the goal and activities of the LAK 2018 half-day workshop on the involvement of stakeholders for achieving learning analytics at scale . The goal of the half-day workshop is to gather different stakeholders to discuss at-scale learning analytics interventions. Inparticular the workshop focuses on learning analytics applications and learning dashboards thatgo beyond the implementation in a single course or context, but that have at least the potentialfor scaling across different courses, programs, and institutes. The main theme of the workshop isto explore how the involvement of different stakeholders can strengthen or hinder learninganalytics at scale. The key findings, recommendations, and conclusions of the workshop will be presented in a summarizing report, which will be shaped as a SWOT analysis for stakeholder involvement for achieving learning analytics at scale.

Publication year:2018