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Provoking Action Through Analytics and the Action Analytics Partnership
A Gilfus Education Group Presentation
Donald M. Norris, Ph.D.President
Strategic Initiatives, Inc.
Why Action Analytics?
• Need to reverse the decline in national competitiveness;
• Promoting accountability, focusing on outcomes across PK-20, and linking learning and workforce development;
• Improving learner access, affordability, and success;
• Need to lift out of recession and rediscover financial sustainability for the new normal; and
• Need to reimagine higher education, post recession.
What is the Action Analyticsin Education Partnership?
• Capella University, the Shank Institute, Minnesota State Colleges and Universities, Strategic Initiatives, Inc.;
• First National Symposium in Action Analytics – September 2009;
• Second National Symposium in Action Analytics;
• Funding by Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Capella University and MnSCU, cost sharing from Strategic Initiatives and edu1world; and
• Establishment of Public Forum on Action Analytics and Action Analytics Community of Practice on edu1world
Action Analytics in Practice
• Capella University - Predictive Modeling and Learning Outcome Management ;
• Purdue University – Signals Project, Course Interventions;
• Community Colleges adapting to 20-30% growth on level or declining resources;
• Medical College of South Carolina – Research Productivity and Grants Management;
• University of Maryland System – System-wide Efficiency Initiative, including selective course reinvention (NCAT); and;
• State-level PK-20 longitudinal data initiatives, Race to the Top reinventions to win new resources.
What is our National Agenda on Action Analytics?
• Develop new mindsets about accountability and effectiveness, a fresh vision for reimagining higher education for the new normal; and changing organizational culture and behaviors;
• Advance the state analytics tools, practices, and skills; deploying Web 2.0 and social networking capabilities;
• Craft effective policies for data sharing and comparison; student access, affordability and success; financial sustainability; and
• Improve data quality, reliability, availability, and transparency, plus our capacity to share.
What is our National Agenda on Action Analytics?
• Mind set
• Tool set
• Skill set
• Practice set
• Policy set
• Culture set
What Are the First Elements ofour Action Analytics Initiative?
• Public Forum on Action Analytics– “Go to” resource bring vendors and practitioners together– Previously unobtainable information on “who is doing what and with
whom” and “what works” in context
• Community of Practice on Action Analytics– Define what Action Analytics is in practice– Develop a vibrant community of practice– Repository of resources on “what works,” develop an “insight mart”– Observatory of new, emerging competences
• Minnesota Analytics– Collaboration between Capella University, MnSCU, University of
Minnesota and other institutions to share and cross-license practices– Model for state-level collaborations
Come Talk About Joining the Community of Practice
• Agree to incrementally build a case study and keep it current
• Engage in conversations to help identify best practice
• Collaborate on new products and practices
• Develop the community