WCET Leadership Summit: Under the Sword of Data

June 12th, 2013

June 13th, 2013

Salt Lake City, UT

On June 12 and 13, 2013, WCET held a Summit in Salt Lake City where institutional leaders and corporate innovators convened to consider big changes that big data, learning analytics, and evidence-based decision making are bringing to the higher educational enterprise.

The WCET Data Leadership Summit brought together educational leaders and practitioners, forward-thinking institutions and enterprises; who are changing the higher education learning analytics landscape.

RESOURCES:
- Highlights from the Summit on the Frontiers Blog.
- Agenda.
- Big Data, Big Changes, Big Choices - Bret Dennis, Blackboard, Inc
- Big Data, Big Changes, Big Choices - Linda Baer, Minnesota State University – Mankato.
- Data Change Everything - Shannon Meadows, CourseSmart.
- Developing a Data Strategy - Alan Drimmer, Apollo Group.
- Student Success by the Numbers - Deb Everhart, Blackboard, Inc.
- Student Success by the Numbers - Mac Adkins, Smarter Services.
- Orientation to Analytics Slides.
- Orientation to Analytics Handouts.
- PAR Student Success Matrix - Swan, Shea, Sloan & Daston.
- Predictive Analytics Reporting (PAR) Framework: Academic Risk Identification.
- The Rise of MOOCs.

WCET Leadership Summit: Under the Sword of Data

The Summit featured conversations about:

The higher ed data analytics ecosystem.
Big Data, Big Decisions
- Why does data matter?
- What should you be looking for?
- Who owns your data?
- FERPA and privacy.
- The good, bad and ugly of profiling.
Institutional capacity building for the data-driven institution.

Read the highlights on the Frontiers Blog.

If you are interested in receiving an invite to future Summits, please contact WCET.