LA and EDM are both two emerging fields that have a lot in common, although they have differences in their origins and applications. LA is a multi-disciplinary field that involves ML, artificial intelligence, information retrieval, statistics, and visualization. Additionally, it contains the Technology Enhanced Learning (TEL) areas of research such as EDM, recommended systems, and personalized adaptive learning . EDM is concerned with: “developing, researching, and applying computerized methods to detect patterns in large collections of educational data that would otherwise be hard or impossible to analyze due to the enormous volume of data within which they exist”. While, LA initially was defined as: “the measurement, collection, analysis and reporting of data about learners and their contexts, for purposes of understanding and optimizing learning and the environments in which it occurs”.