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Understanding Opportunities and Threats of Learning Analytics in Higher Education – A Students’ Perspective

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The Covid-19 pandemic has further fueled an increase of e-learning in higher education. The widespread use of online learning generates vast amounts of academic data. This data can be collected and analyzed with the help of Learning Analytics to improve teaching and learning. Although students are essential stakeholders of Learning Analytics, their views are underrepresented in current research. Therefore, this paper aims to give an overview of opportunities and threats regarding the use of Learning Analytics from students’ perspective. For this purpose, a qualitative study with 136 students was conducted, and the answers were coded and classified by multiple researchers. The results show a generally positive attitude toward Learning Analytics. Noticeable in comparison with existing research were small-scaled answers of participants that focus primarily on the course level and students’ everyday lives. The identified opportunities and risks provide a good foundation for further research.

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    Alena Rodda

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  1. Newcastle University Business School, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK

    Savvas Papagiannidis

  2. Newcastle University Business School, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK

    Eleftherios Alamanos

  3. Newcastle University Business School, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK

    Suraksha Gupta

  4. Swansea University, Swansea, UK

    Yogesh K. Dwivedi

  5. University of Turku, Turku, Finland

    Matti Mäntymäki

  6. University of Agder, Kristiansand, Norway

    Ilias O. Pappas

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Rodda, A. (2022). Understanding Opportunities and Threats of Learning Analytics in Higher Education – A Students’ Perspective. In: Papagiannidis, S., Alamanos, E., Gupta, S., Dwivedi, Y.K., Mäntymäki, M., Pappas, I.O. (eds) The Role of Digital Technologies in Shaping the Post-Pandemic World. I3E 2022. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 13454. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-15342-6_9

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