Greetings Fellow Educators, One of the great things about this forum is the chance to network with clever and invested people who really care about analytics education. At the end of September we had our first online session with a talk from Xue Zhou from Queen Mary University of London She described a scheme to embed Peer Led Teaching & Learning (PLTL) which has had remarkable results in improving not only grades but engagement as well. We could not record but I have summarised the event in this post. Many of us have tried Peer Led Learning (PLL) where students help others, perhaps in lower years or different programmes, to engage effectively with learning in the classroom. Maybe you have tried mentoring programmes where students mentor others in modules previously undertaken? These are often undertaken with some level of recognition given to the peers and some learning activities to help guide their mentoring.  With PLTL the peer guide students are given lessons in education ...

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Please come and join us to discuss all things analytics education on LinkedIn   https://www.linkedin.com/in/baef-group-158959253/  : BAEF (Business Analytics Educators Forum) Group. We are posting regular content and hope for some lively discourse. There is a group page and a person page, due to the odd functionality in LinkedIn for group settings. See you there 😊

The need for quantitative and analytical skills in the modern business environment is growing as companies attempt to leverage data, analytics and AI to improve everything, from customer relationship management and marketing to human resource management, planning and finance (Bag & Wood, 2022) . Data driven organisations are the future of business and employees need to be able to foster data driven decision making and the tools that enable it (Phelps & Szabat, 2017) . The problem is that many students and employees still find themselves avoiding mathematics and find new software learning onerous and highly time consuming. Integrating analytics into workflows often needs to happen in an organic way where the will and desire of the employee to engage is as important as the tools and the data (Phillips, 2021) . Even at a low-level employees need to be able to work with business analysts and understand the pitfalls of data management (Vidgen et al., 2020) . In business schools we h...