Many of the tools developed early on in LA centred around the identification of at risk students, and associated interventions aimed at improving their performance. This has led to the mistaken impression that LA is just about the identification of at risk students, but if we look at the paper by Sharkey and Ansari (2014) demonstrates that even 3 years ago the field was far more diverse.

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• The Open Learning Analytics Initiative's predictive analytics tools can be found here: https://confluence.sakaiproject.org/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=75671025