Educational Data Analytics (EDA) have been attributed with significant benefits for enhancing
on-demand personalized educational support of individual learners as well as reflective course
(re)design for achieving more authentic teaching learning and assessment experiences
integrated into real work-oriented tasks. This open access textbook is a tutorial for
developing practicing and self-assessing core competences on educational data analytics for
digital teaching and learning. It combines theoretical knowledge on core issues related to
collecting analyzing interpreting and using educational data including ethics and privacy
concerns. The textbook provides questions and teaching materials learning activities as quiz
tests of multiple types of questions added after each section related to the topic studied or
the video(s) referenced. These activities reproduce real-life contexts by using a suitable use
case scenario (storytelling) encouraging learners to link theory with practice self-assessed
assignments enabling learners to apply their attained knowledge and acquired competences on
EDL. By studying this book you will know where to locate useful educational data in different
sources and understand their limitations know the basics for managing educational data to make
them useful understand relevant methods and be able to use relevant tools know the basics
for organising analysing interpreting and presenting learner-generated data within their
learning context understand relevant learning analytics methods and be able to use relevant
learning analytics tools know the basics for analysing and interpreting educational data to
facilitate educational decision making including course and curricula design understand
relevant teaching analytics methods and be able to use relevant teaching analytics tools
understand issues related with educational data ethics and privacy. This book is intended for
school leaders and teachers engaged in blended (using the flipped classroom model) and online
(during COVID-19 crisis and beyond) teaching and learning e-learning professionals (such as
instructional designers and e-tutors) of online and blended courses instructional
technologists researchers as well as undergraduate and postgraduate university students
studying education educational technology and relevant fields.
