Case Study: Deakin University achieves personalized, data-driven teaching and learning with Cloudera Data Platform

Drawing Lessons from Data to Nurture Better Teaching and Learning Experiences

Deakin University, a leading Australian tertiary provider serving about 60,000 students across campuses and online, faced a rapidly evolving and competitive education landscape intensified by the COVID‑19 pandemic. The university needed to consolidate data from disparate systems—learning management, registrar, administration and occupancy analytics—to build comprehensive student profiles and improve teaching, learning and operational decisions.

Deakin implemented Cloudera Data Platform as a cloud‑hosted data lakehouse, ingesting more than 8.8 million events per day and leveraging open‑source tools to create analytics for blended learning. The platform gave academics insight into student behaviors and content preferences, helped leadership refine policy and planning, and achieved strong pilot feedback (ease of use 4/5; 71% usability), prompting broader rollout and plans to expand analytics across the university.

Deakin University

Alan Longmuir

Delivery Manager