LTI in Action - Putting Reading Lists at the Heart of the Student Learning Experience at the University of Birmingham - Ann-Marie James | Talis Insight Europe 2016
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LTI in Action - Putting Reading Lists at the Heart of the Student Learning Experience at the University of Birmingham - Ann-Marie James | Talis Insight Europe 2016
- 2. LTI in action Putting Reading Lists at the heart of the student learning experience at the University of Birmingham Ann-Marie James, Project Manager
- 3. Background: before TARL (Summer 2015) https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/ae/Diorama,_cavemen_-_National_Museum_of_Mongolian_History.jpg
- 12. Menu option
- 13. Access routes
- 14. Top lists
- 15. Survey of early adopters
- 16. Survey of early adopters Important – it’s the only way that students are likely to use it!
- 17. Survey of early adopters Important – it’s the only way that students are likely to use it! The list isn’t very visible on Canvas – I’m not sure how students find it
- 18. Survey of impact of LTI integration I think it’s great – I see it as an evolving list and I tell that to students
- 19. Summary of progress Over 170 (of 1600) lists owned by academics / administrators Canvas is the primary access route Online courses highest users
- 20. Next steps Increasing discoverability and level of integration
- 21. Next steps – academic adoption and mainstreaming Increasing discoverability and level of integration Devolved constraints Working with TEL teams and embedding in educational enhancement processes
- 22. Transforming the student experience
- 23. Any questions Ann-Marie James, Resource List Implementation project manager, a.m.james@bham.ac.uk
Editor's Notes
- Background: Myself what we’re going to cover Today: - Background, reading lists and VLEs at UB Why the LTI integration with Canvas and TARL is so important to us How we integrated Impact this has had for us to date, and where we hope to go with this
- Implemented Summer 2015 Open source Reading List system (developed in-house) Book focussed Relatively little use Some persistent links created using Primo (rare) Canvas (bought 2013, as replacement for webct) Usually included reading lists created in Word Occasionally persistent links created using Primo Limitations Lacking a single source, no integration bet. Systems, no single sign on, little take up Went out to tender (Summer) – integration with canvas KEY
- Canvas Critical driver for the integration: widespread use throughout the institution. Canvas use 2015: 1655818 (Shibboleth logins) Canvas key part of the University’s Education strategy, and particularly Technology-Enhanced Learning workstream. TEL central hub and College teams supporting canvas. We felt this was a critical route for mainstreaming ResourceLists (rather than it just being viewed as another library system)
- One of the first things I did as PM was gather an Implementation group. Had representatives from a range of non-library divisions – IT (sys side, for integrations with aleph and primo/sfx), registry (module and student data), and crucially central elearning team. One of the first things we did was develop a project plan, and we adapted the standard plan from Talis and included the integration with Canvas.
- Critical for us to develop this – as not all Schools use Modules option. Need to make it clearer to students; visible straight away. Know that Auckland has done this, but difficult as if finds the wrong list and academic inadvertantly saves – impossible to edit / change from user end. So for us, felt too risky to add this straight-away. Also like links at pages level – as many departments prefer the flexibility of Pages to create content.
- Thank you Steve. Fair to say, found it relatively straight-forward to set this up via modules. Launched Oct last year, continue to gradually build up interest and ownership. By Dec – canvas already top access route. We knew this would be the case in time, but we were surprised by the speed that it happened and surpassed the link from our Resource Discovery service. (findit) [could include a screenshot] Continues to grow: Last month, twice as much as direct already.
- Top 2 – online distance learning courses. 3) New member of staff – integrated directly. Took it as given that she used Canvas and set up ResourceList link.
- 7 of 12 responses had integrated into canvas. Asked how important this was to them using Resource Lists
- Quote 1: ‘important – it’s the only way that students are likely to use it’. No appetite to use another library system (even though is integrated into our resource discovery system – Primo)
- However, going forward, greater discoverability – key. As an academic noted. (Quote 2) This comment also conveys the sense that academics and students alike see canvas as the key access point; and highlights why integration is so crucial. 3rd things we asked: how easy the set up was: most found it “fairly easy” (6-7 / 10 for ease) But mentioned ‘with instructions / handouts’ - suggests that it could be easier, and if we’re going to scale this up we need to make this easier. [need to get the menu option working]
- Final comment, highlights a bit more thinking about the pedagogic use of resource lists, and putting these at the centre of the student learning experience. Structuring of lists and phased release Use in PCAP – one of academics writing her assignment on use Things academics are exploring: Consistency of provision DL and on-campus courses Anytime learning; learning styles Spoon-feeding
- As above, re: 3: Came a good time for some of our online (DL courses) However, for others – already invested a lots of time setting up lists (persistent links) in canvas, but interested in additional functionality of ResourceLists, so pursuing this further.
- 1) Increasing seamless access for students (need to happen across Resource Lists in canvas) However, discoverability and seamlessness will be critical to take up for academics and students – top of our wishlist.
- Secondly, devolved constraints – at the moment assigning academics list (admin heavy); DC will remove another barrier to take up. Thirdly, and critically – we have a whole workstream on academic adoption, including mainstreaming. Academic adoption side, we presented to Directors of Education last month with the vision is to “provide seamless access to all types of resources 24/7 from one place” and they could immediately see the potential for RLs to improve the stud learning experience. Focus very much on this, rather than the library processes (book ordering) side Cascading promotion to College T&L committees, and then School T&L committees - Presented to Teaching Academy, PCAP as part of Technology-Enhanced Learning strand, and generally good educational practice – and looking to include in TEL hub Working closely with Educational developers. (more so than library reps).
- So, in essence, when we started we were really thinking about improving NSS (Q16) – access to library resources; what’s evolved – much closer and clearer focus on how ResourceLists can directly support teaching and learning. Penny dropped with the PVC (Education) – said he after 2 years as PVC he now understands how the library directly supports T&L in a way (with RL being one of 3 initiatives he highlighted); and that majority of academics just haven’t got that level of understanding. [discussion at CEC?] We take heart from this!: 1) Continue to promote top-down (and report on uptake) and working on inclusion in PCAP – for new academics to consider wider issues around RLs 2) In terms of mainstreaming developing processes to pick up new modules, new academics key. And encouraging to note that we’ve already had at least a couple of academics who have used TARL at a previous institution. 3) On the ground. Every Subject Advisor has targets to promote to indiv depts and schools – a number of academics are doing this (colleague speaking in track 2 earlier).
- Thank you for listening, any questions?