Research Projects Focussing on Learning Analytics at Michigan

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E²Coach

The Michigan Tailoring System is an open source software solution developed to customize public health communications. We are adapting MTS to optimize the learning experience in large gateway science courses. The E²Coach system will provide each student with an individualized interface to their class, one that will dynamically recognize their strengths and weaknesses, understand their motivations, and coach them through the course. All students will be better served when we more thoroughly tailor the approach each takes to achieving their learning goals, both high-risk students and those who most easily master the material.

More information on E²Coach can be found here.

M-STEM Academy

The M-STEM Academy is designed to maximize the academic, personal, and professional success of students, with the goal of preparing them for the engineering global workforce. The M-STEM Academy spans the first two years and includes a pre-freshman summer transition program, customized advising, career guidance, academic learning enrichment activities, and assistance in obtaining a paid professional summer internship or research opportunity.

The USE Lab is working with the M-STEM Academy in order to supply mentors with analytic data displays and a type of early warning system that utilizes CTools and student records data in order to better inform academic advisors about when and how to engage their students as well as track upperclassmen who are no longer mandated to attend advising and guidance sessions.