[on behalf of Rob Nyland]
Learning Analytics-focused position at Boise State University
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Boise State University, powered by creativity and innovation, stands
uniquely positioned in the Northwest as a metropolitan research university
of distinction. The eCampus Center in Extended Studies enthusiastically
seeks candidates for the position of *Learning Analyst*.
Reporting to the eCampus Center Research and Innovation Team Manager, the
focus of this position will be to provide data, reporting, and statistical
analysis support for eCampus Research and Innovation Team projects. In
support of the new learning analytics initiative for online courses and
programs, this employee will work with students, faculty, and staff to
develop reports, models, and visualizations to help ensure online student
success and retention. To be successful, this position will need to have a
firm grasp of data collection, statistical analysis, and visualization
techniques as well as an understanding of learning theory.
As part of this position you will:
- Work with online program coordinators, faculty, and Student Success
Coaches to identify and develop reports, metrics, and visualizations that
help trigger timely interventions for student success, and to refine
those
reports in an iterative process.
- Develop and evaluate predictive models to identify key factors that
may hinder online student success in a program.
- Create queries to gather, clean, validate, merge, and maintain data
sets from multiple sources (e.g. data warehouse, student records,
PeopleSoft) for analysis by the Research & Innovation Team. This includes
ensuring that data is secure and appropriate precautions are taken to
maintain student privacy.
- Assist in creating and delivering presentations to university
officials, administrators, faculty, and at research conferences.
- Work with eCampus Instructional Design and Production Teams to develop
dashboards and reports that will help drive improvement in the design of
courses and programs.
Qualified candidates will:
- Have a demonstrated understanding of learning theory.
- Write queries and/or scripts to collect, clean, merge and analyze data
from diverse data sources including relational databases and data
warehouses.
- Appropriately apply statistical analysis techniques (e.g. Analysis of
Variance, Linear Regression, Factor Analysis, etc.) to solve research
problems.
- Have an innovative nature and a desire to find better and more
efficient ways of streamlining, standardizing, and error-proofing data,
data files, tables, data sharing, and reports.
For more information and to apply for this position visit:
https://boisestate.taleo.net/careersection/ex/jobdetail.ftl?job=170380
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Rob Nyland, PhD.
twitter: @robnyland
