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Learning analytics for educational organisations has been a topic of discussion for the past
decade. Yet, there are few examples of organisation-wide systematic and holistic adoptions
of learning analytics. This chapter explores actionable frameworks and adopting models
that could help successfully integrate learning analytics into educational organisations in an
organisational change approach. While higher education organisations are aware of learning
analytics and have started experimenting with dashboards for students and teachers this
is far from organisational transformation. Research on the implementation and practice
of learning analytics in K-12 schools is also scarce. A look at adoption models and policy
recommendations in a broader international context may help push isolated experiments with
learning analytics into the mainstream.