Crunching the numbers
- Article 9 of 15
- EducationInvestor, September 2012
Learning analytics could revolutionise education. But the technology isn't quite ready yet
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Yeomans predicts that once the pilot is over and the system is live, it will more than pay for itself each year: "With 1,000 students a year on our books, that's £20,000 a year on paper and photocopying savings alone, before you look at the savings on travel with tutors no longer having to visit students on placement. Then there's the National Student Survey - a student who comes to a degree course expects that experience to be great and that will help."
Financially, Plymouth also gains from a 20% share of revenue with Classroom Monitor, having co-developed the new system. Yeoman believes that it can be useful to any institution that has to work in training professionals so that they can demonstrate competencies. That might be universities teaching opthamologists, for example, or it could be other kinds of organisations. "If I was a health authority, this would provide me with the kind of courses I needed to lay on and offer them direct to the right people through the Classroom Monitor tool. If the nurses aren't too clear about a protocol, we could embed a link in it through Classroom Monitor so they could have something pop up saying 'Here's a course you could go on.'"
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