Learning Analytics as digital culture of universities: Diagnosis of its application in the education system distance from the UNAM based on a complex scale

Abstract

The article examines the results of the study about the implementation of Learning Analytics within eight divisions of the Open University and Distance Education System of the UNAM, as a way to analyze digital culture as digital praxis. For this purpose, an instrument was designed with a focus on complex systems (interactions, connections and, agents integration) that would allow the assessment of the state of the analytics from a scale of five levels based on the fields of knowledge proposed by Chatti, Dyckhoff, Schroeder and Thüs, H. (2012). It is proposed initially that universities have traditionally covered the basic level that is the management of data for internal informational purposes; However, educational stakeholders have begun to assign a broader and more comprehensive sense to the use of data in order to know their population and solve more complex problems. The conclusion of the text focuses on showing that the divisions that were analyzed are in the possibility of improving data extraction methodologies given their experience and that in some cases there could be trials to generate recommendation systems based on profiles and patterns detected.