Learning analytics – Students in focus

The use of learning analytics is becoming increasingly widespread at universities. As part of a project co-financed by the BMBWF , both the course and the study programme level were addressed. Tools and qualification measures were developed that put students and their interests in the foreground. The project thus pursues a student-centered approach that focuses on autonomy and voluntary participation. Dashboards (e.g., the Learner‘s Corner) and accompanying measures (mentoring, tutorials, ...) were developed and empirically tested at the three participating universities. In addition, ethical and data protection guidelines were developed as part of an interdisciplinary criteria catalog. This paper illustrates the use of learning analytics tools at different levels (LMS plug-ins, application for visualising study progress) using examples from the project and individual empirical results and presents key findings.