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Seminar 05F - Making Action Analytics Work in Your Institution
PLEASE NOTE: Separate registration and fee are required to attend this seminar.

Session Details

Tuesday, October 28, 2008
8:30 a.m. - 4:30 p.m.
Room W221E

Session Type: Full-Day Seminar

Speaker(s)

  • Linda L. Baer, Senior Vice Chancellor for Academic & Student Affairs, Minnesota State Colleges and Universities
  • Alfred H. Essa, Associate Vice Chancellor & Deputy CIO, Minnesota State Colleges and Universities
  • Ken Niemi, Vice Chancellor for Information Technology and Chief Information Officer, Minnesota State Colleges and Universities
  • Donald M. Norris, President, Strategic Initiatives, Inc
  • Craig Schoenecker, System Director for Research, Minnesota State Colleges and Universities
  • Session convener: Joanne Dehoney, Senior Director, Learning Technology, Office of the CIO, The Ohio State University

Abstract

Action analytics places powerful, intuitive, user-friendly analytics in the hands of end users to drive decision making and interventions to improve student access, affordability, and success. This seminar will explore the theory and practice of action analytics in a range of institutional settings. It will also focus on how the Minnesota State Colleges and Universities system developed its aggressive vision and strategy for action analytics. This strategy is leveraging new investment in technology plus existing analytics projects and the use of analytics in MnSCU processes. Action analytics utilizes a fully optimized combination of data modeling/mapping, data warehousing, ETL, OLAP, business intelligence, predictive analytics, and presentation capabilities. The execution of this strategy is a significant exercise in change management and in the building of organizational capacity. This seminar will explore how this strategy was formed and is being executed in an expeditionary manner and will describe the potential capabilities of action analytics at MnSCU. It will also explore the "Backpacks to Briefcases" initiative, through which the Minnesota State Colleges and Universities system will be using action analytics to scrape data from Pre-K–12, postsecondary education, and employer/workforce settings to improve the performance of underserved and at-risk students.