Digitisation is helping to shape the future of higher education, with many forward-thinking institutions implementing a range of technologies to support student engagement. However, the next step for many universities is to understand how their students are responding and leverage the data that is produced across this landscape to take positive action that impacts students’ success.

We must consider the targeted use of data and how it can support the provision of personal tutoring to aid conversations and improve student wellbeing.

Moving from student attendance as the sole measure of student engagement will allow universities to support those at risk of early withdrawal, says Richard Stock, Academic Registrar at the University of Essex

How ethical is it to utilise student data to help support their engagement?

Rachel Maxwell sets out the things to consider before setting up a system that tracks students’ attendance at scheduled teaching time.

Higher education institutions can utilise the data at their disposal to improve student retention and outcomes – but doing so in real time is key.

Ed Foster examines the role that data and technology can play in supporting student engagement

In his recently published specification for education and wellbeing analytics, Professor Edward Peck, the UK Government’s higher education student support champion and Vice-Chancellor of Nottingham Trent University (NTU), highlighted the opportunity provided to universities by the increasingly sophisticated use of student analytics.

Rachel Maxwell discusses the importance of knowing your strategic priorities when it comes to enhancing the use of student data…   

Dr Rachel Maxwell is the former Head of Learning and Teaching Development: Policy and Practice at the University of Northampton. Now Rachel works for StREAM by Kortext, enabling other users to effectively implement and use StREAM, a platform to ‘provide educators with student engagement insight at cohort, course, module and individual level.’ She discusses the importance of knowing your strategic priorities when it comes to enhancing the use of student data

Rachel Maxwell considers the importance of knowing your strategic priorities when deploying student engagement analytics within a university.

In the coming years, engagement analytics will play a role in every meaningful digital transformational project across our institutions. Professor Neil Morris explains the crucial steps, before and after the tech implementation.