{"id":8866,"date":"2025-06-30T08:00:01","date_gmt":"2025-06-30T13:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.everylearnereverywhere.org\/?p=8866"},"modified":"2025-06-30T13:22:59","modified_gmt":"2025-06-30T18:22:59","slug":"practical-steps-to-incorporate-analytics-and-peer-collaboration-to-support-active-learning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.everylearnereverywhere.org\/es\/blog\/practical-steps-to-incorporate-analytics-and-peer-collaboration-to-support-active-learning\/","title":{"rendered":"Practical Steps to Incorporate Analytics and Peer Collaboration to Support Active Learning"},"content":{"rendered":"

Many faculty understand the importance of active learning, but some may struggle to make the transition from less engaging teaching practices. A recent webinar sponsored by Transform Learning and Every Learner Everywhere\u00ae looked at how data analytics and peer collaboration can be used to support active learning.<\/p>\n

Leveraging Learning Analytics and Peer Collaboration<\/a> explored practical ways to incorporate these practices to enhance student success. It featured presentations from Heidi Echols, an Adaptive Learning Specialist and Instructional Designer at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, and Jennifer Reed, a Lecturer in the Department of Mathematics and Statistics at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. The webinar was the second part in a planned series of four<\/a> about the eight DE-EBTs (digitally enabled, evidence-based teaching practices). In the first of the series, Fostering a Sense of Belonging and Instructional Transparency<\/a>, presenters Aris Winger and Abbe Herzig explored strengthening student connection and improving instructional transparency.<\/p>\n

Peer collaboration leverages active learning to create stronger peer-to-peer connections, develop valuable soft skills, and improve academic performance. Learning analytics offers faculty a data-backed way to improve teaching practices. Both are DE-EBTs featured on Transform Learning<\/a>, a new resource hub that outlines the research around and dimensions of each practice and lets users submit their own activities to an instructional examples library.<\/p>\n

Fostering engagement through peer collaboration<\/h2>\n

The presenters described how peer collaboration enhances academic performance and promotes essential skills like communication, empathy, and a sense of responsibility. \u201cWith generative AI, and all the conversations we\u2019re having around that, the importance of these soft skills has never been higher,\u201d Echols said.<\/p>\n

The key to successful peer collaboration starts with group goals in which students collectively work toward shared objectives and individual accountability where every student contributes meaningfully, preventing reliance on others to carry the group.<\/p>\n

Echols and Reed presented several digital learning tools that can assist in promoting peer collaboration and individual accountability:<\/p>\n