Presentation slides used at the Annual Teaching Fellows Symposium at University of Aberdeen

1. The Technology Horizon implications for
assessment
Phil Marston
Centre for Academic Development
University of Aberdeen

2. Heads-up What’s on the horizon

3. Overview
• Learning Analytics
• Tin Can API
• Open Badges

4. Key Concept Gartner’s Hype Cycle

5. Learning Analytics
• Huge amounts of data being
generated
• Storage & processing power
available exponentially
• Patterns of relationships hidden
in that data
• Algorithms being developed
• Dashboards being developed

6. Learning Analytics
• Huge amounts of data being
generated
• Storage & processing power
available exponentially
• Patterns of relationships hidden
in that data
• Algorithms being developed
• Dashboards being developed

7. Learning Analytics
• Huge amounts of data being
generated
• Storage & processing power
available exponentially
• Patterns of relationships hidden
in that data
• Algorithms being developed
• Dashboards being developed

8. Learning Analytics
• Huge amounts of data being
generated
• Storage & processing power
available exponentially
• Patterns of relationships hidden
in that data
• Algorithms being developed
• Dashboards being developed

9. Learning Analytics
• Huge amounts of data being
generated
• Storage & processing power
available exponentially
• Patterns of relationships hidden
in that data
• Algorithms being developed
• Dashboards being developed

10. Tin Can API
• SCORM
• Experience
• Subject, verb, object (I did this)

11. Tin Can API
• SCORM
• Experience
• Subject, verb, object (I did this)

12. Tin Can API
• SCORM
• Experience
• Subject, verb, object (I did this)

13. Open Badges
• Digital certificates with
embedded metadata
• Will be endorsable
• Providing employers with the
information they need

14. Open Badges
• Digital certificates with
embedded metadata
• Will be endorsable
• Providing employers with the
information they need

15. Open Badges
• Digital certificates with
embedded metadata
• Will be endorsable
• Providing employers with the
information they need

16. Implications What’s the role of HE?

17. Any Questions?
Phil Marston
Centre for Academic Development
University of Aberdeen

18. Resources
• Learning Analytics
• NMC Horizon Reports http://www.nmc.org/horizon-project/horizon-reports
• Purdue http://www.educause.edu/ero/article/signals-using-academic-analytics-promote-student-success
• JISC http://jisc.cetis.ac.uk/topic/learning_analytics
• Tin Can API
• http://tincanapi.com
• Open Badges
• Mozilla http://openbadges.org
• JISC http://www.rsc-scotland.org/eassessment/tag/open-badges/

19. Image Credits
• Slide 4 Gartner's 2012 Hype Cycle for Emerging Technologies http://www.gartner.com/newsroom/id/2124315
• Slide 6 Aberdeen University ‘Maxwell’ High Performance Computing Facility
http://www.abdn.ac.uk/news/details-13807.php
• Slide 7 Map of science derived from clickstream data
http://www.plosone.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal.pone.0004803
• Slide 10 SCORM, repositories and competencies - The big picture by Claude Ostyn
http://www.ostyn.com/standards/prop/SCORM_competencies_repositories.htm
• Slide 11 Making Sense of Tin Can API by Liz Burrow
http://burlix.wordpress.com/2012/06/19/making-sense-of-tincan-api/
• Slide 12 Toyota environmentally conscious driving simulator by Eric Chan. Creative Commons license CC BY
http://www.flickr.com/photos/maveric2003/2143217328/
• Slide 13 “Badge Anatomy” by Class Hack. Creative Commons license CC BY-SA
http://www.waynebarry.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/Open-Badge-Anatomy.png
• Slide 14 Endorse project logo Creative Commons license CC BY-NC-SA http://ict-endorse.eu
• Slide 15 Digital Resume by Linda Zivnustkova http://www.lindazivnustkova.com/resume.html
• All other images fotolia.com