By Dian Schaffhauser, Campus Technology
Higher ed IT leaders share 8 ways to make the best use of the data coming out of the campus learning management system. This fall, Oral Roberts University (OK) issued Fitbits to on-campus students and Garmin vivofits to online students — part of the “whole person” philosophy at the Tulsa-based institution that urges students to be “well prepared” physically. The data generated by those activity trackers on movement, heart rate and sleep patterns drizzles automatically into the university’s D2L gradebook in time for settling up midterm grades and finals. The results are displayed through D2L for faculty and students, just as if they were weekly quiz grades. The Garmin device, added CIO Mike Mathews, syncs with an online service that allows students to set goals and share progress with others. Eventually, the campus will use the analytics to find out whether tracking the fitness data and making it visible gets students to move their bodies more, which is the goal, after all.
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