Top Indian B-schools, including IIMs in Ahmedabad, Calcutta and Udaipur are implementing systems that map student data and use analytics to improve academics.
SAP, which has designed the system, said the software can provide intelligent inputs to students, including the kind of papers which can be referred for assignments.
The software will be able to provide continuous feedback on student activity, which teachers and the institute can use to improve students’ performance and tweak academic offering, reports the Economic Times.
IIM-A is implementing a ‘student life cycle management system’ which will cover a student’s data including admission information, scheduling, grades and summer internship, placement details, said Shailesh Gandhi IIM-A’s Dean (Programmes).
The system, to be implemented from next year, will be equipped with data analytics capabilities, he said.
IIM Calcutta, the news report said, uses data analytics and artificial intelligence (AI) to analyse student performance. This has helped the institute map students’ strengths and weaknesses, it said quoting the institute’s spokesperson.
Campus Management Corporation, the company that has provided IIM-Udaipur, said the system will analyse factors like attendance, assignment submission and usage of online learning portals by students and compare them with the average for all students.
This way, the institute can identify at-risk students who could then be given special attention, said Raj Mruthyunjayappa, Managing Director of the company for Europe, Middle East and Africa and Asia-Pacific.
The management institutes are also using data analytics to better manage admissions.
Researchers at IIM-Udaipur Ronojoy Basu and N Vishwanathan, working in collaboration with Subhamoy Ganguly of the University of Auckland, have worked on a data science-based model that calculates the optimum number of rounds and offers they need to make, so that seats get filled up and students have to spend less time during admissions.
He further said that the model can be used by any institute by using data from last year’s admissions.
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