This is quite a good preprint paper discussing the relation between theory and learning analytics. It covers four major areas: theories of learning analytics, theory-based critiques about learning analytics, theory use in learning analytics, and theories emerging from learning analytics. The general trend is that learning analytics started as an observation-centered discipline, and hence limited in the same way behaviourism is limited, and subject to the same critiques. Over time, it gradually incorporated more from various theoretical perspectives (for example, constructivism) but as there was no theory of learning analytics per se critics tended to draw from their own theoretical background (for example, from education, biology, psychology, sociology, law and ethics, etc.) resulting in incommensurable and conflicting views on the subject. Image: Romero and Ventura.
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