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Adaptation and evaluation of a learning analytics dashboard to improve academic support at three Latin American universities
Author(s) -
Guerra Julio,
Ortiz-Rojas Margarita,
ZúñigaPrieto Miguel Angel,
Scheihing Eliana,
Jiménez Alberto,
Broos Tom,
De Laet Tinne,
Verbert Katrien
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
british journal of educational technology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.79
H-Index - 95
eISSN - 1467-8535
pISSN - 0007-1013
DOI - 10.1111/bjet.12950
Subject(s) - dashboard , learning analytics , context (archaeology) , adaptation (eye) , latin americans , academic advising , knowledge management , orchestration , analytics , higher education , computer science , medical education , psychology , data science , political science , medicine , paleontology , musical , art , neuroscience , law , visual arts , biology
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.