Deakin University: data insights to drive learning

Deakin University has selected Cloudera Data Platform (CDP) to modernise its data architecture and improve the learning experience for its 60,000 students.

Remaining future-proof in Australia’s highly competitive higher education market is mission-critical. Implementing CDP not only strengthens its personalised learning pathways but heightens operational efficiencies. The university’s IT teams can now ingest and process more than 8.8 million data events per day from disparate systems, including learning management, registrar, administration, and occupancy analytics.

An upgrade of the learning management system provides analytics that deliver crucial insights into student learning patterns, providing real-time understanding of how to improve teaching and student learning outcomes. Teaching staff are also able to access various data sources via the university’s CDP learning analytics dashboard to provide more personalised and targeted support to students.

Faster access to usable data insights enables Deakin University to develop comprehensive profiles of student campus experiences and the many ways students interact with academic staff and learning materials. Armed with this knowledge of student learning patterns, university leadership, faculty and staff are now empowered to deliver more engaging lessons aligned to learning preferences and future workplace needs.

Deakin University’s Chief Digital Officer Craig Warren said that CDP is giving the university crucial insights to improve its data collection and analysis strategy.

“Deakin University partnered with Cloudera to capture and better understand key student data to realise the next phase of our digital transformation. Providing improved and enhanced teaching and learning experiences is integral to our digital strategy and Cloudera Data Platform helps us deliver this. The collaboration has not only generated significant value for current students but supports the university’s future plans to deliver data analytics capabilities to more departments.”

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