Tableau
APIR is coordinating the implementation of Tableau, a business intelligence data visualization tool that allows users to interact with data through dashboards and other presentation styles.
Primary Partners: Office of the Registrar, Division of Information Technology, Division of Continuing Studies
Primary contact: Jocelyn Milner
Educational Innovation (EI)
APIR supports the analytical data needs of Educational Innovation and contributes leadership on academic planning components of EI. APIR is a partner in all three goals of EI.
Partners: Division of Continuing Studies, Vice Provost for Teaching and Learning, Office of the Registrar, Office of Quality Improvement
Primary contact: Jocelyn Milner
Learning Analytics/Unizin
APIR is contributing to the learning analytics pilot project in conjunction with DoIT Academic Technology. Supported by a UW System Growth Agenda grant, this project piloted a course-based early-warning system using Desire to Learn’s Student Success System (S3). This project ends in June 2015 and ongoing efforts to implement a learning analytics system will continue with the implementation of the Unizin digital ecosystem. APIR staff serve on the campus-wide Unizin implementation committee and as members of the Digital Infrastructure Working Groups.
Partners: Vice Provost for Teaching and Learning, DoIT Academic Technology
Primary contact: Clare Huhn
Prerequisite Review Project
In conjunction with the Office of the Registrar, APIR is coordinating a review of course prerequisites for clarity, enforceability, and consistency. This review focuses on courses where there is evidence of student confusion, misunderstanding, and/or lack of compliance with the governance-approved course prerequisites. These issues have been demonstrated to contribute to course achievement gaps and impede academic progress.
Partners: Office of the Registrar, Vice Provost for Teaching and Learning
Primary contact: Michelle Young
Learning Goals Reporting tool (LGRT)
APIR staff are participating in the development of a collection instrument and catalog of learning goals for academic programs. Learning goals will be used to develop curricular maps and assessment plans to meet accreditation-related requirements and academic program review expectations.
Partners: Office of Student Learning Assessment, Graduate School
Primary contact: Sarah Kuba
MOOCs (Massive Open Online Courses)
Academic Planning and Institutional Research is assuming the role of Data Coordinator for the MOOC project. As the Data Coordinator, APIR is the UW-Madison contact with Coursera for data-related matters, including data for research and evaluation of the MOOC implementation.
Partners: Division of Continuing Studies, DoIT Academic Technology
Primary contact: Clare Huhn
Following are demographic profiles of UW-Madison MOOC participants:
- Forests and Humans: From the Midwest to Madagascar
- Climate Change Policy and Public Health
- Energy and the Earth
- Shakespeare in Community
- Changing Weather and Climate in the Great Lakes Region
- Perceptive Hunting: Land Ethic Reclaimed
- Markets with Frictions
- Video Games and Learning
- Human Evolution
- Globalizing Higher Education
Data Integrity Group (DIG)
APIR serves as the coordinator of meetings and initiatives of the Data Integrity Group (DIG). DIG advises DoIT’s InfoAccess team on data quality issues and consults on the development of new data views and/or enhancements to existing data views. InfoAccess is the data source for most institutional data analysis and reporting.
Partners: DoIT Data Resource Management Technology (DRMT), Division of Enrollment Management (Offices of the Registrar, Financial Aid, and Undergraduate Admissions), Graduate School, Office of Quality Improvement
Primary contact: Clare Huhn
Achievement Gap
APIR provides analytics to help course instructors learn about and reduce course achievement gaps. We work with departments and course instructors to identify predictors of course success and to evaluate the effects of achievement gap-related interventions.
Partners: Vice Provost for Teaching and Learning, Vice Provost for Diversity and Climate
Primary contact: Clare Huhn