Leveraging Technology on Learning Landscape Learning Analytics: A Conceptual Study

Paradigm has shifted from brick to clicks on the learning portals.Erik Duval in 2012 has proposed the definition "learning analytics is about collecting traces that learners leave behind and using those traces to improve learning".The 2016 Horizon Report describes learning analytics as "an educational application of web analytics aimed at learner profiling, a process of gathering and analyzing details of individual student interactions in online learning activities. The NMC Horizon Report: 2013 Higher Education Edition identifies learning analytics as a key technology for the higher education sector which has an expected time-to-adoption horizon or two to three years. The report suggests that "Learning analytics, in many ways, is "big data," applied to education. The term owes its beginnings to data mining efforts in the commercial sector that used analysis of consumer activities to identify consumer trends."The current interest in learning analytics reflects wider interests in "Big Data" and Educational Data Mining (EDM). "Learning analytics is the use of intelligent data, learner-produced data, and analysis models to discover information and social connections for predicting and advising people's learning." (Siemens, George, 2010).This paper has presented conceptual basics about learning analytics and its associated constructs.