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Course Signals at Purdue: Using Learning Analytics to Increase Student Success

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Course Signals at Purdue: Using Learning Analytics to Increase Student Success

Abstract/Description

In this paper, an early intervention solution for collegiate faculty called Course Signals is discussed. Course Signals was developed to allow instructors the opportunity to employ the power of learner analytics to provide real-time feedback to a student. Course Signals relies not only on grades to predict students' performance, but also demographic characteristics, past academic history, and students' effort as measured by interaction with Blackboard Vista, Purdue's learning management system. The outcome is delivered to the students via a personalized email from the faculty member to each student, as well as a specific color on a stoplight -- traffic signal -- to indicate how each student is doing. The system itself is explained in detail, along with retention and performance outcomes realized since its implementation. In addition, faculty and student perceptions will be shared.

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267–270

Publisher

Association for Computing Machinery

Resource type

Research/Scholarly Media

Resource status/form

Published Text

Scholarship genre

Empirical

Open access/full-text available

Yes

Peer reviewed

No

ISBN

978-1-4503-1111-3

Citation

Arnold, K. E., & Pistilli, M. D. (2012). Course Signals at Purdue: Using Learning Analytics to Increase Student Success. Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Learning Analytics and Knowledge, 267–270. https://doi.org/10.1145/2330601.2330666

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