Early Warning Systems and Staff Workload: A Field Study of Alert Volume and Follow-Up

Authors

  • Gintaras-Jonas Kazakevicius Centre for Learning Analytics, Sirvintos Institute of Learning Technologies, Sirvintos, Lithuania Author
  • Berthe-Marie-J Kohnen Centre for Student Partnership, Clervaux Institute of Learning Technologies, Clervaux, Luxembourg Author
  • Aengus-M Nestor Centre for Higher Education Studies, Slievenamon Centre for Digital Education, Carrick-on-Suir, Ireland Author

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.22694735

Keywords:

Early Warning Systems and Staff Workload; Educational technology; E-learning; Evidence synthesis; Research methodology

Abstract

Early Warning Systems and Staff Workload has moved quickly from a niche scientific question to something a wider community
can now investigate with reasonably reliable tools, but the evidence behind it has not always kept pace. We pull together the
current evidence for early warning systems and staff workload, covering the methodological, practical, regulatory and cost
angles, with an eye on where practice has genuinely settled and where researchers and reviewers are still largely working it out
for themselves. Selective, context-specific pursuit looks better supported by the evidence gathered here than either broad rollout or
blanket avoidance.

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