4) Interest is growing in the use of learning analytics as a tool for personalised student
learning. Learning analytics models and tools have proven successful in identifying at-risk
students early enough to help them to be successful. What is perhaps most compelling about the
topic is the ability for educators to use the data captured by these tools and adapt their teaching
styles in real-time. Some companies are taking this notion a step further and building social
learning platforms that act as personal learning environments with built in learning analytics that
assess students’ performance based on the learning approaches they have chosen.