Analytics

Horizon Reports

Tue, 09 Feb 2021 19:57:26 Z

The EDUCAUSE Horizon Report profiles key trends and emerging technologies and practices shaping the future of higher education, and envisions a number of scenarios and implications for that future.

2025 EDUCAUSE Horizon Report | Data and Analytics Edition

Fri, 26 Sep 2025 17:52:13 Z

The 2025 EDUCAUSE Horizon Report profiles the trends and key technologies and practices shaping the future of data and analytics, and envisions a number of scenarios and implications for that future.

Change With Analytics Playbook

Fri, 21 Mar 2025 15:17:25 Z

Funded by the Gates Foundation, EDUCAUSE partnered with the Association for Institutional Research (AIR) and the National Association for College and University Business Officers (NACUBO) to develop a guide for increasing institutional analytics capabilities, the Change with Analytics Playbook.

2024 EDUCAUSE Analytics Landscape Study

Tue, 17 Sep 2024 14:18:35 Z

The 2024 EDUCAUSE Analytics Landscape Study summarizes the “current state of affairs” of analytics in higher education.

2023 EDUCAUSE Horizon Report | Holistic Student Experience Edition

Fri, 22 Sep 2023 15:13:05 Z

The 2023 EDUCAUSE Horizon Report profiles key trends and emerging technologies and practices shaping the future of the student experience, and envisions a number of scenarios and implications for that future.

2023 EDUCAUSE Horizon Action Plan: Generative AI

Thu, 14 Sep 2023 17:39:55 Z

This report describes an ideal future for generative AI in higher education, drawing on the insights of a small panel of teaching and learning higher education experts, focusing on a 10-year timescale.

2023 EDUCAUSE Horizon Action Plan: Data Governance

Wed, 22 Feb 2023 17:49:39 Z

This report describes an optimized future for data governance in higher education, drawing on the insights of a small panel of data and analytics higher education experts, focusing on a 10-year timescale.

Advising Technology Across the Student Journey

Tue, 13 Dec 2022 16:19:05 Z

This resource is intended to help practitioners gain a deeper understanding of the source systems, advising tools, and add-on student support features that provide information from and about students to institutions.

Digital Transformation (Dx) Institutional Self-Assessment

Thu, 08 Dec 2022 18:36:39 Z

This self-assessment is designed to help you understand your institution’s capabilities for Dx by walking you through six capability categories.

2022 EDUCAUSE Horizon Report | Data and Analytics Edition

Thu, 23 Jun 2022 14:23:31 Z

The 2022 EDUCAUSE Horizon Report profiles the trends and key technologies and practices shaping the future of data and analytics, and envisions a number of scenarios and implications for that future.

Promising Practices in Holistic Advising Transformation: Incorporating Voices of Intermediaries

Tue, 14 Jun 2022 15:18:41 Z

This report identifies best practices in the use of advising technologies in institutions of higher education. It amplifies a valuable but missing voice in student success and advising transformation research, that of intermediary organizations. Given the breadth of their experiences over time and institutional contexts, intermediaries have amassed a unique and nuanced knowledge base of factors that may influence the effectiveness of student advising and success efforts.

A Framework for Student Success Analytics

Thu, 19 May 2022 18:52:22 Z

This framework introduces users to the four central components of a student success analytics initiative—Preparedness, Outcomes, Analysis, and Decisions—providing a shared point of reference for institutional stakeholders.

2020 EDUCAUSE Horizon Report^™ | Teaching and Learning Edition

Mon, 10 Feb 2020 17:50:43 Z

The Horizon Report profiles key trends and emerging technologies and practices shaping the future of teaching and learning and envisions a number of scenarios and implications for that future. It is based on the perspectives and expertise of a global panel of leaders from across the higher education landscape.

Higher Education’s 2020 Trend Watch & Top 10 Strategic Technologies

Fri, 17 Jan 2020 21:51:07 Z

The 2020 Trend Watch and Top 10 Strategic Technologies report focuses on those trends, technologies, and practices that are going to be most influential and receive the most attention from IT leaders as they face shifting higher ed, social, political, and technological landscapes in the year ahead. A focus on security and privacy, student success, and the promises and pitfalls of data will exert a great deal of influence on IT strategy in 2020. And IT leaders will be concentrating their attention on technologies and practices that enrich student experiences and success and advance their institution’s capabilities in safely and systematically using data resources.

2019 Study of Undergraduate Students and Information Technology

Tue, 22 Oct 2019 18:53:12 Z

This study presents key findings from EDUCAUSE's 2019 research on students and IT. It also provides technology and higher ed leaders with recommendations for addressing students' most pressing technology support and solution needs.

2019 Horizon Report

Wed, 06 Mar 2019 18:08:51 Z

The 2019 Horizon Report details the key trends, significant challenges, and important developments in educational technology, as ranked by an expert panel of higher education IT leaders.

Educause Business School Community Group: Analytics & Reporting Discussion

Mon, 13 May 2019 15:03:53 Z

Rebecca Mathews, Senior BI Analyst at MIT Sloan opened the conversation by providing a brief overview of the reporting environment at Sloan and the unique data management challenges they face since ‘Sloan is different’.

Student Success Analytics Community Group Webinar: Path to Predictive Learning Analytics

Mon, 04 Mar 2019 17:48:05 Z

In this webinar from the EDUCAUSE Student Success Analytics (SSA) Community Group, we will describe Indiana University's journey in developing predictive models of learners' interactions with digital learning management environments (LMEs).

Analytics Institutional Self Assessment

Thu, 29 Jul 2021 22:30:19 Z

Understanding your institution's current capabilities is an important step in advancing your analytics initiatives. This self-assessment is designed to help analytics professionals understand the level of their analytics capabilities and get some ideas about how to improve those capabilities.

Infographic: Higher Education's Top 10 Strategic Technologies for 2016

Thu, 10 Mar 2016 18:01:45 Z

The technologies infographic provides a snapshot of the relatively new technological investments colleges and universities will be spending the most time implementing, planning, and tracking in 2016.