1.  What are the main barriers – for individual academics, for institutions?  What have you found works?  What have you found doesn’t work?  What would make a difference at a sectoral level i.e. a tangible “thing” that they feel the SIG or another agency could do to help move things forward either within institutions or across the sector.

2.  Some commercial providers already liaising with sector to seek out future developments (Bb, SITS)  Develop agreed workflows/process maps which can then be discussed with suppliers to see how they can make them operational in their systems  Need compromise which recognises diversity of assessment process but is technically feasible  Central repository of who is using which systems (VLE, SRS, e- assessment, etc.) UCISA ?  More “oomph” if multiple institutions make representations to influence commercial providers rather than single HEIs  How can JISC help support institutions. Not worked this way before but not necessarily a reason why they don’t going forward  Where could we host materials and resources which HEIs wish to make available to other institutions ?  What are potential risks as well as potential barriers in looking at embedding e-assessment and getting it wrong

3.  Possibility of a research assistant to work out what the sector needs and help maintain resources  Evaluations of potential competitor tools instead of Turnitin  Create definitive list of affordances of e-assessment tools including VLEs  Assessment is a complex process with significant diversity of implementation – technical systems need to be able to cope with much (not necessarily all) of this  “Peer” issues difficult – peer review, peer marking, etc – Workshop tool in Moodle OK for peer review, WebPA and PeerMark other forms of peer assessment  A lot of “legacy practice” in terms of how assessment undertaken – assessment review a chance to debunk some of this ?  Learning technologists uniquely placed perhaps to undertake process review of assessment etc ? (JISC Infokit)  Look at pedagogic issues or challenges and look to see where technology can be an opportunity to challenge existing practice

4.  Implementing and supporting EMA can be a real time overhead to LT teams – again tied in with unique position of LTs to undertake this work  Engaging with this helps share understanding of institutional processes  Where do learning technologists sit within institutions ? JISC work in this area ?  What are the pedagogical drivers for “e-assessment” ? – Efficiency ? Quality ? Student Experience ? More research needed…  Help build business case for technology use in assessment  How can enthusiastic individual activity be expanded to faculty or institutional activity (e.g. Cath Ellis)  Debunk some of the myths ? Provide evidence to counteract  Use student perceptions of e-feedback to encourage academics  Push feedback and marks to students rather than rely on them coming to collect it (ESCAPE project)

5.  Create Google Doc to collect (a) current operational issues and (b) features and functions currently not implemented  Can effective embedding in practice overcome any technical barriers/problems

6.  Take it really steady – don’t rush in to doing this quickly “Fool’s Rush In” – possible loss of reputation of getting it wrong  If we have rushed in – how do we preserve ourselves  Want the technology to help me not hinder me  Find a mechanism to get the university to talk the same language together  Look at process reviews to see what others have done