In 2020, the University of Leeds entered into partnership with Solutionpath to implement the StREAM engagement analytics dashboard as part of a broad learning analytics strategy that focused on supporting all students studying at Leeds. After a successful pilot with 10 academic schools, StREAM was rolled out across the institution during the 2021/22 academic year to the 36,500+ members of the student undergraduate and taught postgraduate population.
The University of Leeds is in the process of proactively redefining its curriculum around the ‘hopes, dreams and needs’ of its students, both present and future. Jeff Grabill, Deputy Vice Chancellor Student Education, explains the crucial role that learning analytics plays in this redesign:
“Learning analytics is mission critical … we need learning analytics to mature so that it can help us both with the kinds of institutional questions we need to ask ourselves and also to provide resources to educators and students to support learning.”
The deployment of StREAM at Leeds is therefore tightly linked to their strategic aims and supports an ongoing shift towards the use of real-time learning analytics data to ensure timely interventions to support student success. From an operational perspective, StREAM sits across an active digital ecosystem and ingests multiple data-feeds that are used to help the Student Education Service (SES) team focus their attention on students who appear the most ‘at risk’ of not progressing or succeeding on their course.
Having completed the pilot, it is timely to reflect on how the implementation and embedding work is progressing in line with Leeds’ strategic and research objectives, and how it is impacting student engagement, the student experience, student success, and shaping institutional policy as part of the broader digital transformation strategy at Leeds. Find out more by reading the full case study below.
