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Publication Date: 2020-Jul
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Adaptation and Evaluation of a Learning Analytics Dashboard to Improve Academic Support at Three Latin American Universities
Guerra, Julio; Ortiz-Rojas, Margarita; Zúñiga-Prieto, Miguel Angel; Scheihing, Eliana; Jiménez, Alberto; Broos, Tom; De Laet, Tinne; Verbert, Katrien
British Journal of Educational Technology, v51 n4 p973-1001 Jul 2020
Despite the success of academic advising dashboards in several higher educational institutions (HEI), these dashboards are still under-explored in Latin American HEI's. To close this gap, three different Latin American universities adapted an existing advising dashboard, originally deployed at the KU Leuven to their own context. In all three cases, the context was the main ruling factor to these adaptations. In this paper, we describe these adaptions using a framework that focuses on four different elements of the context: Objectives, Stakeholders, Key moment and Interactions. Evaluation of the adapted dashboards in the three different Latin American universities is conducted through pilots. This evaluation shows the value of the dashboard approach in different contexts in terms of satisfaction, usefulness and impact in academic decision-making and advising tasks. The main contribution of this paper is the systematic reporting of the adaptations to an academic advising dashboard and showing the value of an academic advising dashboard on academic decision-making and advising tasks.
Descriptors: Academic Advising, Management Systems, Universities, Decision Making, Task Analysis, Data Analysis, College Students, Guidelines, Objectives, Stakeholders, Interaction, Computer Software, Foreign Countries
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
Education Level: Higher Education; Postsecondary Education
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: South America
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