Building a Data-Driven Online Learning Institution: An HBX Case Study

Online learning platforms provide an unprecedented opportunity to study teaching and learning through data collection, modeling, and analytics. At HBX, we are creating an active, social, and case-based learning platform to innovate and extend the reach of HBS. We have built our learning platform and our business systems in the cloud, along with a cloud-based data warehouse, tying together data from a student's application and enrollment, through course engagement and learning assessment. We will present a case study of our data warehouse implementation and discuss how it has helped create a data-driven culture to improve our platform and increase learner success.

Outcomes: Understand the key principles that allow an online learning data warehouse project to tie together data from business systems and learning platforms * Explore several important learning analytics questions that can be answered using a learning analytics data warehouse * Explore several approaches to dealing with unstructured and semistructured data during data warehouse creation