Learning analytics is a key knowledge area for the improvement of education that proposes the use of educational data to improve decision making. In the last years, the Iberoamerican region has made a lot of efforts to introduce learning analytics and take advantage of its advantages. In this special issue, a set of proposals of learning analytics in this region are presented. The special issue includes four articles that cover a wide range of topics of this area, including adoption at the institutional level, analytics applied to academic improvement, video analysis or visual analytics in learning management systems.
