Systems Level Analytics In State Universities

Going Big: University of Wisconsin’s Move Towards Systemic Learning Analytics

For the past three years, learning analytics has been named by the New Media Consortium as a technology to watch.  In 2013 big data has reached the peak of inflated expectations on the hype cycle. However, despite the explosion of learning analytics research, most of what emerges in the field is course level, small scale, or tool-centric approaches to learning analytics. While these research efforts are vitally important to the development of the field, in order to truly transform education, learning analytics must scale and become integrated at multiple levels throughout an educational system.  Systems level think and change management theory must be applied to move educational institutions toward learning analytics optimization.  UWS will discuss our current state and future plans for moving our organization to a sustainable systemic model of learning analytics. 

 

Bruce Maas University of Wisconsin-Madison

CIO & Vice Provost for Information Technology

Bruce Maas is the Vice Provost for Information Technology and CIO at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, a position he has held since August of 2011. He has served the University of Wisconsin System in a diversity of roles over a career of more than 35 years, including Campus Budget Manager, Assistant Dean for Business Affairs, PeopleSoft Student System Project Manager, UW System Service Center Transition Coordinator. Prior to his current position, he served for seven years as the Chief Information Officer at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. Bruce has served as the Director and as a faculty member of the EDUCAUSE Leadership Institute, and as chair of the EDUCAUSE Midwest Regional Conference. He is a strong advocate for central and distributed IT collaborations and partnership. Presently, he is serving a 4 year term on the EDUCAUSE Board from 2012 to 2016, and is the Board Treasurer. Bruce holds an MS in administrative leadership from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.  

Linda Jorn University of Wisconsin-Madison Assoc.

Vice Provost for Learning Technologies and Director of the DoIT Academic Technology.

Linda Jorn serves as Associate Vice Provost of Learning Technologies and Division of Information Technology (DoIT) Director of Academic Technology, at the University of Wisconsin Madison. Linda works with campus leaders to set campus strategic priorities around educational innovation and to design efficient, yet flexible organizational structures that can quickly respond to transformational changes. She works with team members to make sure Academic Technology services align and help advance the University mission, strategic priorities, and the Wisconsin idea by wisely applying technology to current and future academic environments. During her work career Linda has brought in over $3,642,000 in grant and project money and has lead or held membership in over 26 academic technology committees/councils. She has served on the EDUCAUSE Advisory Committee for Teaching and Learning, EDUCAUSE Learning Initiative Advisory Board, and served as the CIC Learning Technology chair-elect, chair, and chair emeritus. In addition she has served on ten CIC and national conference and program planning committees. Currently Linda serves as a judge for the Breakthrough Model Academy projects and serves on the EDUCAUSE Nominations Committee. Linda has a twenty-year history of publishing and presenting about the impact of technology on teaching and learning with over 84 presentations, 19 grants, and 16 publications. She is dedicated to an interdisciplinary intellectual approach to her work and draws on key theories and practices from such disciplines as education, rhetoric, communication, computer science, and leadership.