Customising Learning Through Data

Lies, Damn lies and Statistics - I have never really understood that statement. Numbers never lie, they can be misinterpreted, manipulated, ignored but they never lie.

The Interhigh platform generates a lot of information on a day to day basis. Information that can be critical in helping students to understand what they are doing right, wrong and  help forecast where they are going, and if it’s not where they want to be, help them change it! All of this without anyone appearing to “have-a-go-at” or “stressing” the student. The Interhigh platform is the student’s peer so the student listens to it.

The idea came from an Interhigh student, asking “Could I see some goals, and my progress to meet those goals”. We thought we have all the information - so let’s make that happen.

 

So why does it work? Good question, but it does. You should see the reaction when a red section of a graph appears on a student’s attendance breakdown.  I am sure there will be people who will try and quantify and give reasons why but I think it’s very simple. Young people love to learn, improve and impress us they just don’t always like showing it!

So with all the information at hand to the student in a sterile non-invasive manor it alerts the student to the changes needed in order to meet their goals.

What for the future?  As we gather more and more information about how students react to education we can more and more tailor schooling for the individual! Even within a classroom environment.

 

This may not yet be the “bigdata” revolution for Healthcare and Education that is currently being talked about, but it certainly is mediumdata, that is customising learning through data analytics fedback to the learning environment.

Nik Mobey

Trefforest Media