UNLV Predicts Student Success and Prepares for the Final U.S. Presidential Election Debate with Splunk
October 18 2016 - 8:00AM
Business Wire
Splunk Inc. (NASDAQ:SPLK), the leading software platform for
real-time Operational Intelligence, today announced that the
University of Nevada, Las Vegas (UNLV) is boosting student
achievement and experience through learning analytics on the Splunk
platform. Splunk is also helping the UNLV IT team prepare to host
the final U.S. Presidential election debate on Wednesday, October
19th. Splunk will help ensure UNLV’s web properties and network
infrastructure stay online during an expected spike in traffic
during the debate, while also helping to proactively monitor and
analyze the debate’s associated web and social media data. Learn
more about how UNLV uses insights from Splunk by reading the case
study and watching the video.
“We immediately made an impact across networking, datacenter and
application support using Splunk Enterprise as our platform for
machine data. Inspired by Splunk’s flexibility and impact out of
the box, we quickly realized we could expand our use of Splunk into
academic research too,” said Cam Johnson, manager of the Network
Operations Center, UNLV. “Our research into how our students learn
is helping us identify where and when student support is needed,
enabling instructors to lead students toward academic success based
on early indicators. Retention, progression and completion are very
important to our mission and Splunk helps us meet these goals.”
UNLV is a rising national public research university serving
29,000 students. The university has used Splunk Enterprise for
several years in IT operations to monitor the efficiency of its IT
infrastructure and to help identify potential issues. UNLV’s
Network Operations Center uses Splunk to ensure fast resolutions,
system uptime and performance across the university for a more
satisfying campus experience.
UNLV first used Splunk to analyze logs from its Learning
Management System (LMS) for IT troubleshooting. With grant support
from the National Science Foundation, the University then expanded
its use of the platform into learning analytics research to improve
how students learn. By mining and querying clickstream data from
the LMS, UNLV researchers view which learning resources and
studying behaviors most affect how well individual students
perform. With this data, UNLV has developed the Early Warning and
Learning Strategy Intervention program for instructors to identify
students at risk of poor performance and to provide such students
with customized learning materials to enable them to perform
better.
In pilot programs, researchers collect data on students’
learning habits during the first four weeks of a course, and can
then identify, with about 80 percent accuracy, any student who will
eventually earn a C grade or lower in the course. Using this data
as part of the intervention program, the instructor can then give
the student specific feedback on how to improve. As a result, UNLV
has seen better student success rates, with up to a third of
students improving to A or B grades, and experienced lower class
dropout rates.
“Predictive analytics can impact the world in untold ways, and
UNLV is showing us the art of the possible. The University’s novel
use of the Splunk platform to identify students who may
underachieve is a solid example of the kind of change machine data
can deliver to universities around the world,” said Kevin Davis,
vice president of public sector, Splunk. “Educational institutions
are analyzing data to provide better services to students, to keep
critical IT services running, and to protect student data and the
university infrastructure. Exciting developments like learning
analytics only reinforce the need for the Splunk platform on campus
to help better position students for success.”
Splunk4Good Supports UNLV’s Project Lead the Way STEM
Training
UNLV also received a $25,000 grant from the Splunk4Good
initiative to support the university’s fifth annual Project Lead
the Way STEM (PLTW Science, Technology, Engineering and Math)
training program for middle and high school teachers. UNLV’s Howard
R. Hughes College of Engineering is one of more than 8,000 schools
in 50 states to host PLTW programs. This year’s training, which
took place between July and August, included 80 teachers from 60
schools. With the grant from Splunk4Good, the training was able to
offer a new course called Computer Science Principles, designed
specifically for high school teachers. This commitment is part of
the Splunk Pledge initiative announced last month at .conf2016.
About Splunk Inc.
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