A Roadmap for Implementing Learning Analytics: taking into account Pedagogy, Privacy, Ethics, and Technical Infrastructure

Abstract

This practitioner report details the development of a roadmap for initiating and evaluating Learning Analytics (LA) projects that were created at Utrecht University. The aim for the roadmap was to enable a combination of a top-down and bottom-up approach to LA: by top-down providing facilities with governance steps, the goal was to enable educators at the University to bottom-up initiate LA projects. The report starts with a description of the context of Utrecht University and the need to develop the roadmap. Subsequently, we discuss the groundwork that was required at the institutional level, for example, establishing an institutional policy for LA. Then, we present the roadmap and our experience with its application so far. The roadmap may be of use to other institutions as an example of how to combine a top-down and bottom-up approach to LA.