Use of data for Educational Innovation
The research area of use of data for educational innovation focuses on using data about learners and their contexts to understand and optimize learning and the environments in which it occurs.
With the emergence of new technologies, educational institutions nowadays have huge amounts of data at their disposal, resulting in an increased interest in learning analytics approaches from educational researchers. Despite the opportunities this emerging field of research entails and the available expertise, large-scale adoption of use of data or learning analytics to improve (innovation in) teaching and learning is often lacking.
In our research, we study methods to analyze educational data as well as implications and opportunities for educational practice.
Related research areas
Using data to understand learners calls for multidisciplinary research, combining for example learning theories, analytical methods, and software technology. Information about related research areas can be found at the following pages:
