Modelling the contribution of learning analytics to sustainable education: Institutional, pedagogical, and societal approaches

Learning analytics (LA) emerged and expanded rapidly in the 2000s as a process that involves the collection and analysis of student-related data towards redesigning meaningful learning experiences. Almost two decades later, the current chapter offers a review of how learning analytics is utilized in higher education at three different levels. First, the analysis explains how LA facilitates evidence-based decision-making by administrators and educators at an institutional level. Then, the analysis adopts a pedagogical approach to delineate how LA informs current and future learning strategies. Third, the analysis adopts a societal approach to explore the potential contribution of LA to diversity, inclusion and equality in higher education. By comprising institutional, pedagogical and societal approaches, the chapter concludes with a model, which locates learning analytics in the framework of sustainable education.