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PIVOT Courses Associated with Improved SEEQs and Tool Use

Faculty training to support empirically driven course design potentially represents one of the most scalable options available for improving student outcomes at an institution. One strategy to...

Posted: August 19, 2021, 3:58 PM

Five Faculty Receive UMBC Learning Analytics Mini Grants

$2k professional development awards renewable annually

To encourage, identify, and exchange effective practice in the use of data to inform teaching and learning, the Provost’s Office has awarded UMBC’s first learning analytics mini grants to five...

Posted: July 22, 2021, 3:15 PM

HelioCampus Implementation Update #2:

It’s Rollout Time!

HelioCampus is a data analytics platform that provides UMBC with the next-generation decision support services.  Helio integrates our enterprise data warehouse with advanced reporting and...

Posted: June 7, 2021, 10:04 AM

Using Analytics to Improve Student Success

Nudging math students to tutoring

Mathematics is a powerful tool.  We use applications from math all day, every day, like when we drive over a bridge or look at our email.   Math is very difficult for many people, and they...

Posted: March 4, 2021, 1:53 PM

(Re)Launching a Learning Analytics Community of Practice

Helping faculty use the emerging field of learning analytics

UMBC’s Learning Analytics Program is a community of scholars interested in using analytical data to advance student achievement and success. We’re relaunching the program after, like so many...

Posted: February 9, 2021, 10:16 AM