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June 10-15, 2012 Growing Community; Growing Possibilities Robert Sherratt Patrick Lynch University of Hull
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Mon 11 Jun 10:45-11:45 Conference Centre Room 5 Leadership and future directions 2012 Jasig Sakai Conference2
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First heard about this at last year’s conference Undertaking work at Hull to map out the future (eCommons – tomorrow) Analytics, or analytics-like, ideas kept occurring Led us to collect these thoughts, start of a learning journey 2012 Jasig Sakai Conference3
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Government creation of a mess Shift in cost to students ◦ Fees generally increased from £3,500 to £9,000 Change in student expectation ◦ More information to support choices Shift in providers ◦ Creation of pseudo-market conditions based on price and qualifications ◦ Entry of commercial providers – BPP, part of the Apollo group, Pearson 2012 Jasig Sakai Conference5
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Average sized UK institution – c. 20,000 students and 2,500 faculty and staff 56 th overall in the Complete University Guide league table (out of 116) Continuing positive feedback from students. Joint 8 th of mainstream english Higher Education Institutions in the National Student Survey 2012 Jasig Sakai Conference7
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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. (SoLAR: http://www.solaresearch.org/about/)http://www.solaresearch.org/about/ 2012 Jasig Sakai Conference9
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Education as a black-box Knowing why students fail and why they succeed – feedback on the course All educators claim to know their students Analytics offer an opportunity to personalise the student’s experience Value from a student’s perspective – guidance on what to considering Management – how is the course performing? 2012 Jasig Sakai Conference11
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UK picture ◦ CETIS – Analytics Reconnoitre ◦ http://blog.ouseful.info/2011/03/03/ongoing- jisc-projects-of-possible-interest-to-lak11- attendees/ http://blog.ouseful.info/2011/03/03/ongoing- jisc-projects-of-possible-interest-to-lak11- attendees/ ◦ Ten or so examples, many library based ◦ Includes Cambridge & Sakai data ◦ Subsequently a number of retention and progression projects 2012 Jasig Sakai Conference13
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Much progress seems to be relatively small scale The level to which universities engage is varied, but mostly it appears to be small groups with specific remits rather than an institution wide approach Activity still remains low Sustainability beyond projects appears limited But, growing interest 2012 Jasig Sakai Conference14
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Building the Digital University, 2001… …continues with eCommons – distinctive digital platform for learning, teaching and communications Part of an institutional conversation looking at implementation of learning, teaching and student experience strategy including ◦ Retention ◦ Development of the distinctive Hull graduate ◦ Library resource utilisation 2012 Jasig Sakai Conference16
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Chemistry – benchmark all 1 st year students at entry – sets a trajectory for them The focus, and evidence, for an ongoing conversation – looking for signs of underperformance Increase retention rate by 25% and improved academic performance A success for little data? 2012 Jasig Sakai Conference19
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Bid for internal funding – inspired by a teaching and learning conversation Analyse Sakai activity data Focus on access to Resources and participation in Forums Looking to create a dashboard for students An equivalent for faculty? 2012 Jasig Sakai Conference20
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Student Support Requirements – Prediction Tool app for Chemistry ◦ Fowler, J. and Norrie, P., British Journal of Nursing, (2009), 18(19), p1194 Early warning systems Targeting support services Targeting resources 2012 Jasig Sakai Conference21
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We are starting the learning journey Some initial questions: ◦ Where is the gold, is there any? ◦ What is the predictive power? ◦ How robust can any model be? ◦ Ethics – is this big Brother watching? ◦ Who needs to know what? ◦ Complexity - Student performance versus teacher performance versus what other factors? and... so what (now)? 2012 Jasig Sakai Conference22
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Robert Sherratt ◦ r.sherratt@hull.ac.uk r.sherratt@hull.ac.uk Patrick Lynch ◦ p.lynch@hull.ac.uk p.lynch@hull.ac.uk 2012 Jasig Sakai Conference23
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