trekker

Tomorrow
Lindsey Johnson and I are presenting on Portal Metrics at Educause. Check the presentation during the Business Intelligence Lighting Rnd at 2:30pm.

Here is my one page poster on the Retention aspect of the Portal Metrics work we are doing at OU. It shows the motivating factors and has some graphs that demonstrate one of the likely approaches we will be taking to identify high risk students.

Poster

At Summit I am hanging out quite a bit in the cafe in front of the Exhibit Hall. Feel free to stop by for a chat if you have some spare time.

I just got my travel all set for Summit 2010 in San Francisco April 11th - 14th. If any of you are going, let me know. I would enjoy meeting up with you or anyone you want to direct my way.

Lindsey Johnson and I put together a presentation proposal for Educause 2010 based on our work at the University of Oklahoma. If we get the presentation we will be discussing how to identify high-risk students that are likely to be susceptible to attrition based on our analysis of portal usage data. If you would like to read our proposal, check out the link.

Educause 2010 - Retention & Portal Usage Proposal.pdf

This article discusses how institutions are starting to use metrics information in Learning Management Systems to find students that are likely to drop out of online classes. At VBI we are looking at similar measures for Portal usage. VBI is also applying the usage to retention in general in an effort to find the point high-risk students have different behavior patterns than regular students. The earlier in the term we can identify the high-risk students the longer we can work on retaining them.

Keeping Them Online and in School -- Campus Technology Campus Technology is a higher education technology magazine that provides updated information about advanced networking for the campus enterprise, security solutions for the campus enterprise, enterprise ...

Here is a great article about how
usage analysis provides students with feedback on how well they are likely to do in their online courses as Purdue.

Signals tells students how they're doing even before the test This is an official news Web page of Purdue University, home of the Boilermakers, alma mater of the first and last men to walk on the moon, and proud member of the Big Ten Conference.

One of VBI's marketing slicks for Trekker

Trekker FAQ.pdf

Here is a link for the whitepaper we have put together about how the effective use of university portals can effect retention and recruitment.

Portal Strategic Planning & Measurement.pdf - File Shared from Box.net

Hello, this is Eric James. I am the developer for Trekker. Trekker is a tool that allows Universities and Colleges to collect individual usage patterns in their campus portals. At VBI we have big hopes for Trekker and are using it to measure social proximity between institutions and their students. I will be fleshing out this page with more information and new developments.....