Here are a couple of research-based items of interest:
How Students Use Digital Resources in Their Learning - Educause presentation. Glenda Morgan of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and her colleagues also presented at a Sloan Consortium event recently and there have been several interesting blog posts about it.
Enhancing Teaching and Learning Through Educational Data Mining and Learning Analytics from the Office of Educational Technology of the U.S. Department of Education.
