Student Profiler Introduction

Student Profiler – an introduction

What is the Student Profiler?
Interactive tool for staff
Allows them to reflect on potential cohort for a course/module
‘ Who are my students?’
Student Profiler lets staff experiment with potential scenarios – ‘what if’
Aim – to think about course, student perspective

Potential benefits of tool
Reflective tool – student-focused
Alerts staff to opportunities/risks of potential cohorts
Lets them personalise courses – tailoring the course experience to the cohort
Matching course with the student experience

Initial development of concept
Tool in beta – initial concept, prototype
May change in look/feel, content categories, potential outputs
Looking for feedback – all aspects of tool

Development – visual concept (1)
From OU idea – spider diagram – needed to be more generic/prompting

Development – visual concept (2)
From CETL R&R project – Life and Health Sciences – ‘Wheel of Life’

Rationale for visual design
Good starting point for reflection
Can drill down for more information/hints
Straightforward visual output for staff
Generic but still gives useful picture of student group
Simple, easy to understand visual concept – at-a-glance view of cohort in wheel
Slider easy to use/amend

Demo of Student Profiler

Potential student profile categories
Cohort size
Range of student abilities
Independent Study Skills
Diversity
Prior subject experience
First choice of course
Professional/vocational focus of course
Practical/skills based focus of course
Need for tutor support
Need for flexible pathways
Peer interaction
Ratio of tutors to students

Task – evaluation of categories (1)
Potential categories on sheet
Task – which categories do you think are most important?
10 dots – highlight student profile categories you think are most important
More importance – use more dots in one category if you wish – spread how you like
E .g. 5 dots in most important, 2 in less important

Developing the tool
Question in survey to staff (what factors are important when planning for your teaching)
- sent to 21 staff, 4 responses to date
JISC Curriculum design cluster
Working groups in Ulster
Focus groups within the University
Selected students

Moving it forward
Ask groups to feedback on the following:
Usability
Usefulness
Accessibility
Content
Potential outputs
Identifying where tool could be used

Areas for discussion
Are these the right categories?
Is the wheel the right approach?
How to word the outputs – opportunities/risks or hints/tips
Where to get feedback information for staff
Is there anything missing?

Student Profiler Introduction

by Viewpoints, University of Ulster on May 06, 2009

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