Awareness is Not Enough: Pitfalls of Learning Analytics Dashboards in the Educational Practice

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Jivet et al.’s (2017) “Awareness is not Enough. Pitfalls of Learning Analytics Dashboards in the Educational Practice” examines the educational concepts that influence the designs of learning analytics dashboards. The primary takeaway from this reading is that learning analytics is the bridge between data analytics and learning sciences, which can help teachers and learners to explore the vast amount of information generated in the online learning environment (Jivet et al., 2017). Another lesson obtained is that learning analytics dashboards promote inter-student competition instead of enhancing the mastery of relevant knowledge and skills. Additionally, despite learning analytics dashboards displaying indicators about the learning process, learner, and learning contexts, the data computation creates predictive models that do not emphasize learning.
Educators and institutions should be mindful of several things before utilizing learning analytics. First, they should understand how learning analytics optimize learning through the collection, measuring, reporting, and analyzing of the data collected. S...