Symbiosis between Learning Analytics and digital transformation

Abstract

Higher Education Institutes (HEIs) are undergoing a profound and widespread digital transformation with the introduction of digital technologies in education. The introduction of digitised educational environments produced huge data repositories that could serve learning analytics, for the purposes of understanding and optimising learning and the environments in which it occurs. Where the digital transformation of education made learning analytics better and more qualitative, learning analytics leverages the digital transformation of HEIs by taking better informed actions.This paper elaborates on the process of developing a conceptual learning analytics platform at KU Leuven (Belgium). Where the project started off as a pure data project, gradually several preconditions emerged, which caused a lot of side-tracking. The introduction of learning analytics needs a digital transformation of education. At the same time the digital transformation of education needs qualitative and quantitative learning analytics to take it to the next level. As if Learning Analytics and digital transformation live in symbiosis with each other.