New movement in learning analytics could change education - Meris Stansbury, eCampus News

Stanford calls for education data science field; presents national road map to analytics success. In a truly comprehensive report, with advice and suggestions from over 800 teachers and administrators, a Stanford-led national Workgroup calls for a new movement in learning analytics—redefining the field and offering a seemingly scalable road map to success. The Workgroup, report, and road map were developed, because as Roy Pea, the David Jacks Professor of Education and Learning Sciences at the Stanford Graduate School of Education and lead investigator of the report, explains: the technology behind analytics has progressed faster than education’s ability to use it. http://www.ecampusnews.com/technologies/data-learning-analytics-984/