Learning Analytics and Data Protection in Ireland
Learning Analytics and Data Protection in Ireland


Learning Analytics and Data Protection in Ireland
Adapted from the Data Protection Commissioner’s Office’s data protection checklist, this guide outlines the key steps staff and institutions must take to ensure compliance with data protection legislation.
Collaboration and consultation are essential for whole-of-institution approaches. This resource outlines some of the colleagues that you may wish to consider working with to develop your approach.
The value of data lies in answering questions so knowing what question(s) you want to answer is an essential first step. This guide details some of the areas that data can be used to investigate.
This web-based collection contains case studies, commentaries and tools supporting the enhancement of assessment and feedback in Irish higher education programmes. The collection showcases the contribution of 31 staff and two students, from 14 national and five international institutions. The topics explored in this collection highlight the complexity of programme approaches to assessment and feedback, in particular:
– the drivers of programme assessment change
– leading change to programme assessment
– exploring the evidence for what’s going on in programme(s) and
– ideas to enhance changes in programme(s) assessment.
The collection should be valuable to a range of stakeholders in higher education, i.e. academic staff, senior administrators, programme teams, students, quality assurance officers, education developers/technologists, assessment unit staff, etc.
Scholarship Update: Rich MOOC Poor MOOC – What good data analytics can tell us about teaching and learning
Scholarship Update: An investigation into the acculturation experiences of Muslim students in third level education in the Republic of Ireland
Scholarship Update: Implementing a cultural historical activity theory approach in a blended learning course for ab initio learners of Irish