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ÌÀÍ·Ìõ the Program

The goal of learning analytics is to better understand and improve learning for students, teachers, administrators, and other stakeholders and to better comprehend, organize, and provision educational data. Learning analytics is strongly focused on providing in-time information to inform interventions and teaching methodologies through predictive modeling. The end result is more effective educational systems.

Learning analytics methods are generalizable to education researchers in many subfields that use large datasets to better understand educational outcomes. Students will develop knowledge of how learning analytics can be applied to the field of education intervention and policy.

Opportunities for students with experience in learning analytics include research positions, academic appointments, industry jobs in educational technology companies, and administrative employment at the school, district, state, and federal level. A certificate earned in this area could considerably strengthen graduates’ employability.

Key Takeaways

Through this certificate, students will:

• Gain foundational skills and knowledge to analyze learner data from educational datasets
• Be introduced to basic programming languages for analyzing data
• Learn the essential principles for collecting, organizing, analyzing, and interpreting educational data
• Use text analysis strategies and natural language processing techniques to extract information from educational related text
• Explore advanced concepts in machine learning to conceptualize educational problems from an algorithmic perspective

Who Should Enroll?

• Prerequisites: Completed Bachelor’s degree plus current enrollment in a master’s or doctoral degree program within ÌÀÍ·Ìõ University
• Note: Not all Peabody professional degree programs include enough elective credits to make earning an additional certificate possible. Students are encouraged to confer with their program director as well as with certificate directors to ensure they can meet all requirements for both degree and certificate programs.