 Welcome to Introduction to Learning Analytics course. Due to use of digital tools and technologies used in education such as educational apps, online resources, library management systems or learning management systems such as Moodle, Blackboard or the online access portals leads to a larger user generated data on education sector. As in other domains such as finance, business, health sector or manufacturing or other domains the large data produced from the learner experience with the system can leads to the applying analytics on this data. So, the analytics applied to this large data leads to more insights to teachers to improve the teaching and improve the learners performance. This course is for the teachers who are interested to understand learner and to improve the teaching performance and also for the students who are interested in learning analytics and also in the education domain and also for the people who are working in educational sectors. If you already learned ML methods and looking for domain or data to apply the methods you learnt then this course might help you. In this course in week one we will talk about what is learning analytics and what are the types of learning analytics. In week two we will learn how to collect data from the different learning environment such as a personalized learning environment to a MOOC learning environment. Also we will talk about ethics and privacy issues to be followed in the learning analytics. When you collect a data from the learners, when you collect a learner from the participants what are the ethics we have to maintain. In a week three we learn about descriptive analytics that is how to collect data and how to show the data in the dashboard. In a final week that is in week four we will apply a predictive analytics on a learner data using a software called VECA. This course is created using learner centric MOOC model. If you would like to know more about learner centric model you can look at the Educational Technology website at IIT Bombay or you can take a course in NPTEL. What is learner centric model? In learner centric model you will not have a series of videos to learn. Instead you will do lot of activities and will interact with the peers and learn from them.