EDUCAUSE 2024: Lessons from a Data-Driven Institution

Larger training establishments are utilizing mountains of knowledge to handle the various challenges they’re going through in 2024 and past. In reality, the data-empowered institution is the No. 1 difficulty on the 2025 EDUCAUSE Top 10 list of applied sciences and traits within the trade. Faculties and universities know that getting their arms across the information they gather, establishing clear information insurance policies and understanding what the information is telling them are essential to their future.

However whereas many establishments are simply getting began on their information journey, disruptors like Western Governors University — the adult-focused, online-only establishment based in 1997 by a consortium of 19 U.S. governors — have been pushed by scholar information from the beginning. A few of that was out of necessity, as a result of there isn’t a in-person interplay with college students at WGU, however some was by design because the college’s early leaders took a technology-forward method.

The result’s greater than 25 years of expertise utilizing information to maintain college students engaged, enrolled and on observe to graduate, and at EDUCAUSE 2024 in San Antonio, two of the individuals behind WGU’s data-empowered method defined how they use that information and what classes extra conventional establishments can take from their expertise.

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