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Talis Insight 2015
David Errington
Chief Executive Officer
Post Digital

Ice Cream
etextbooks
Analytics
Yesterday…
Our focus

Digital Shift

Where we are

What we doing

Where we are going

Today ….
At Talis - our deliberate focus is creating
software and applying it appropriately
to teaching and learning.
Cloud, Mobile, Content, Workflow, Analytics
But first ;)
Digital Shift!
Where are we today? 



Reading Lists

Digitised Content 

Project Lighthouse
79 institutions in seven countries
are managing and delivering their
learning resources
Reading Lists
including over half of the universities in the UK
Reading Lists
Last 12 months: 9m references and 250k lists
20m references, 455k reading lists
86.3m hits, 1.5m reading intentions
Reading Lists
Reading Lists
Academic Year 13-14
93%
Desktop & Laptop
7%
Tablet & Mobile
Reading Lists
Academic Year 14-15
86%
Desktop & Laptop
14%
Tablet & Mobile
Peak usage
October, 2pm… Tuesdays!
Reading Lists
1.3m pages, 70,000 scans
Digitised Content
670,000
Viewed
270,000
Printed
36,000
Downloaded
Digitised Content
100,000 requests
Busiest month: August
Avg time, request to ready: 7days
Digitised Content
New People

New Markets
New Products

New Challenges

and sometimes …
We are growing up
Partner Programme
British Library

Canvas
Bookstores
mark.bush@talis.com
So what have we been doing?
Reading Lists & Digitised Content
Keji Adedeji
Product Manager
Themes
Continuous
Improvement
Continuous Delivery
Supporting Growth
99.99% Uptime
30 releases in 2015
so far…
74 improvements
Security
HTTPS
encrypted data transfer
from and to end user
less vulnerable to
external attacks or access
Integration
LTI
working more closely with partners and customers to
support LTI integrations
reduce academic barriers
reading lists and digitised resources can be delivered to
students with other course materials in beta
LTI, Integrations & Data - 1.30PM
British Library
Integration
bringing more elements of digitisation workflow into Talis
Aspire Digitised Content
In BETA with 8 institutions
Digitised Content Update - 2PM
British Library Integration - 3PM
Live reporting
• No longer relying on data download process
• Reporting directly from live data
• Remove time and data lag
• Additional report columns and filter types
• In BETA with some customers
Reviews refresh
enable reviewers to identify lists and items which require
attention and prioritise work
introduction of change and alert information
focus on items which have changed
bringing in as much information needed into reviews
workflow
support quicker decision making
reduce duplicate effort
Reading List Product Update - 1pm
Talis Insight 2015
David Errington
Chief Executive Officer
tim.hodson@talis.com
Developer Programme
APIs
Data
Consulting
What else are we working on ?
Universal Content
Universal Player
Universal Analytics
Universal Collaboration
Technology
Relevant
Integrated
Scalable
Reusable
Project Lighthouse
Teaching and Learning with Digital Content
Project Lighthouse
Mark Gavillet
Product Manager
Project Lighthouse is NOT:
…about making a product called
Lighthouse
…about building a content
management system
Project until now has concentrated on
a solid foundation of enabling
technologies to support further
investigation and development
In itself, this has proven valuable and
technologies developed will improve
current products
Foundation
We strongly believe digital resources
can do more to benefit teaching and
learning
Centred on connecting technology
based teaching and learning in
meaningful ways
Why build the house?
Pilot institutions in UK comprising
academics and student groups
USA and Australian pilots planned
First stage pilots
Increase in teaching and learning with
digital resources, the majority involving
workarounds
Workarounds display a need and a
recognition of potential benefit
Benefits are such that effort is expended
working around barriers
What happens if the barriers are removed?
Existing tools
Resources can be more than just
digital facsimiles
Organic, living resources that evolve
and improve as they are used
Growing resources
Accommodate student’s intuitive
behaviour
Fully inclusive learning groups
Widen discussion
Peer learning
Call for pilots:
Self-selecting academics
Student groups
Learning technologists
Work with us
Sue Greener - University of Brighton

1.30-2.00pm
Alan Dix - University of Birmingham

2.00-2.30pm
Chris Trace - University of Surrey

3.00-3.30pm
Project Lighthouse overview and update

3.30-4.00pm
Talis Insight 2015
David Errington
Chief Executive Officer
So what does all this mean for

Reading Lists & Digitised Content?
Reading Lists & Digitised Content
Keji Adedeji
Product Manager
Background
Reading lists point students at resources
Evidence of digital shift with more online materials
eBooks, eJournals, Websites etc
Digitised content within direct to students
Bringing the
capabilities developed
in Project Lighthouse
into existing modules
Organise Share Store
Universal
Player
Engagement
Analytics
Enabling support of
digital resources of
multiple types
Reading Lists Digitised Content
Organise Share Store
Universal
Player
Engagement
Analytics
Understanding real life
examples
Understanding the
challenges and
workflows
Working with
development
partners…
Talis Insight 2015
David Errington
Chief Executive Officer
The trouble with vision is
keeping it in sight ;)
Partners
Developers
Pilots

Careers 

Interns
So how can you help ?
Growing up
Technology focus
Evolving our products
Expanding in new markets
New products in 2016
Summary


Please help us on our journey…. together
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The Talis Keynote at Talis Insight 2015