Cultivating and Supporting Learning Analytics Literacy using 3M Analytical Framework

Abstract

The widespread adoption of personal computers and mobile devices has enabled learning analytics to become more pervasive among teachers, school administrators, students and parents. While the past decade has marked notable advancements in learning analytics, less attention has been paid to the unique characteristics of learning analytics that necessitate the notion of learning analytics literacy. Although researchers have documented the common use and misuse of learning analytics in education, there is still limited research that highlights the importance of cultivating literacy around the use of learning analytics for better understanding of teaching and learning practices. This paper describes how a Micro-Meso-Macro (3M) analytical approach can be used to support and enhance learning analytics literacy among education stakeholders, while raising the prospects of how a systematic implementation of raising learning analytics literacy can be done through two interacting themes: raising awareness and raising criticality