Jan Vom Brocke

This book offers an introduction and hands-on examples that demonstrate how Learning Analytics (LA) can be used to enhance digital learning, teaching and training at various levels. While the majority of existing literature on the subject focuses on its application at large corporations, this book develops and showcases approaches that bring LA closer to smaller organizations, and to educational institutions that lack sufficient resources to implement a full-fledged LA infrastructure. In closing, the book introduces a set of software tools for data analytics and visualization, and explains how they can be employed in several LA scenarios.

Die Autoren vermitteln, was den Softwaretyp Campus-Management ausmacht, welche Funktionen zum Kern eines CMS gehören und welche nicht benötigt werden. Sie skizzieren die Datenbasis solcher Systeme in einem Referenz-Datenmodell. Vertiefend wird dieses Modell im Buch Ein Referenz-Datenmodell für Campus-Management-Systeme in deutschsprachigen Hochschulen (Carolla 2015) empirisch validiert beschrieben. Neben den Charakteristika Administrativer Systeme im Hochschulbereich illustrieren die Autoren die Einführung zweier produktiver CMS, die als Eigenentwicklungen in Bielefeld und Wien entstanden sind.

This book examines how information systems research and education can play a major role in contributing to solutions to the Societal Grand Challenges formulated in “The Millennium Project” (millenium-project.org). Individual chapters focus on specific challenges, review existing approaches and contributions towards solutions in information systems research and outline a research agenda for these challenges. The topics considered in this volume range from climate change, population growth, global ICT availability, breakthroughs in science and technology and energy demand to ethical decision-making, policymaking, gender status and transnational crime prevention. It is the first book to present ideas on how the Information Systems discipline can contribute to the solution on this wide spectrum of grand societal challenges.