Northwest Lineman College’s Learning and Development Coordinator Jeroen Breman, and OPWL faculty members Lisa Giacumo and Steven W. Villachica also presented their research at a poster session titled “Big Data and Analytics for Big Wins: Environmental Cues, Readiness Indicators, and Select Analytics Applications.”
This work is based on a recent systematic literature review of big data and learning analytics to inform management, training, and instructional systems design that was conducted by Giacumo and Breman (in press). Villachica and Giacumo then collaborated to place decisions to use big data within a performance improvement framework and design an emerging technology tool, which can be used to assess organizational readiness for new big data and analytics initiatives. The evidence from the literature review, performance improvement framework, emerging tool design process, and the tool were presented to interested attendees of AECT’s Emerging Technology Showcase.
Giacumo and Breman also presented their research and emerging evidence during their session “Big data, learning analytics, training, and performance improvement: Emerging evidence.”
This session focused on their systematic literature review of big data and learning analytics to inform management, training, and instructional systems design in NGOs. Surprisingly, the search yielded little to no evidence of the use of these approaches in NGOs so the context was broadened to include corporate workplaces. Some research and trade magazine articles on this topic along with anecdotal evidence does exist in this larger context; businesses are beginning to use big data to improve training and performance. The purpose of this session was to review the evidence and connect with potential collaborators, who are interested in the application of big data in organizational performance and training.