Case Study: Ivy Tech Community College improves at-risk student predictions with Google for Education and Google Cloud

Ivy Tech Community College of Indiana predicts course outcomes with 80% accuracy using Google for Education

Ivy Tech Community College of Indiana, a community college with campuses across Indiana, faced the challenge of using its vast data warehouse of over 26 terabytes of student information reactively rather than predictively to help students succeed. The institution partnered with Google for Education and leveraged Google Cloud and TensorFlow to build a predictive AI engine that could identify at-risk students early in the semester.

The solution involved migrating to Google Cloud to scale the management of 12 million data points and using TensorFlow to build a flexible machine learning system. This AI engine analyzed student engagement patterns to predict course outcomes with 80% accuracy. The program identified over 16,000 at-risk students in a pilot, leading to targeted interventions that helped 3,000 students achieve a grade of C or better and resulted in the largest percentage drop in failing grades in the college's fifty-year history.

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