Yesterday in my post, The Future of Education – EDUMAAT,
I have chosen to briefly declare the power of EDUMAAT within one page. Many of
my friends called me up and also commented that, if I have to do any
justice to EDUMAAT, some advanced features in this technology has to
be explained. So I have decided to do that in a series of articles. Today we
shall see how the power of analytics is used in EDUMAAT to impart the wisdom of
self-realisation within the students so that it paves the way for their
improvements.
We believe that exams are the final result of the
student’s ability or performance, but it need not be. Every student who wanted
to learn comes with imagination to achieve greatness. If he has known how he
performs and how his final exam results are likely to be if he continues at the
same level of performance, he has a chance to improve or do a course correction
that will enable him to achieve the desired results. EDUMAAT does exactly the
same. It has the ability to predict and recommend to the student of their
future potential.
Historically, student reporting has come from the Student
Information System. This has provided a variety of methods to extract data over
several years, but each has brought its challenges. Student Information and
Analytics (SIA) in EDUMAAT, produces an effective service to report from
the System and to provide consistently accurate information.
Student Analytics is an innovative new reporting service,
which will provide valuable insight into applicant and students. EDUMAAT
– SIA supplies a comprehensive suite of prebuilt dashboards for colleges,
faculties and central administration, Students and their parents.
Student Analytics delivers:
- fast
and efficient reporting
- easy
access to a large standardised data set
- convenient
access to reports through your web browser
Dashboards present a selection of flexible related
analyses, with changeable parameters allowing you to select periods of time and
groups to compare across different cohorts.
Student data in the form of exam results have been used in
the past to evaluate the performance of individual departments within
universities and student outcomes. Today EDUMAAT is taking this one step
further, using real-time data on student attendance, frequency of access to the
university’s virtual learning environment (VLE), their classroom performance,
assignment performance and level of contact with tutors. This is helping to
improve student retention and results, as well as ensuring courses are better
run.
EDUMAAT -SIA is an advanced tool for measurement,
collection, analysis and reporting of data about learners and their contexts,
for the purposes of understanding and optimising learning and the environments
in which it occurs.
All
universities have access to student data through their record systems and
learning environments. Presented in a manageable way, this data can be used to
predict attainment, to readily identify issues and to implement the appropriate
early intervention strategies that will enhance the student performance and
institutes research advancements.
Data vs. human
It is important to remember that while data can be very
useful, human skills are still required to interpret and apply the information
in a useful way. One-to-one meetings between a lecturer and a student can
uncover details that data analysis alone would be unable to provide. EDUMAAT
seeks to do that within the SIA itself with a student-lecturer connect chat
rooms. This will enable the students and the lecturer to have good
communication between them which enables a better learning platform altogether.
A clear institution-wide policy on the role of data drawn
from student analytics should be agreed at the onset. Data typically draws on
information that is easy to measure, for example, it can confirm that a student
has taken a book, but not if they have read it.
The future
Student analytics is an important development in higher
education as, in an increasingly competitive market, the potential for using
data to improve services, student retention and student success is clearly
evident. EDUMAAT seeks to give the maximum possible information and analytical
insights into the student’s and institutes performances against their KPIs to
drive early intervention strategies that will give desired final results.
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