May 5, 2014
We are pleased to announce the publication of the inaugural issue of the Journal of Learning Analytics. JLA is a peer-reviewed, open-access journal, disseminating the highest quality research in the field of learning analytics and the official publication of the Society for Learning Analytics Research (SoLAR).
The inaugural issue features an invited piece by SoLAR president George Siemens, as well as four research papers looking at the identification of at-risk students, correlation of practice and repetition with learning, the use of psychometric data in modelling academic achievement, and the use of affect and engagement measures to predict learning outcomes. In addition two Hot Spot papers describe the contributions that contemporary privacy theory can make to learning analytics, and the experience of a resource-constrained approach to implementing analytics in higher education.