Presentation from the ALT-C

1. Student led ideas to address real problems
Summer of Student Innovation

2. Outline
 Introduction and overview of the Summer of
Student Innovation
 Pitches of student projects
 Activity: Approaches to engage with student
innovation
 Benchmarking the student digital experience
 Plenary and announce competition winners
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Taster menu

3. Background
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Summer of Student Innovation
 A competition around issues
students have and how might
they address them using
technology
 Running since 2013
 Supported 65 student project
teams
 Projects attended development
workshops from July – September
with best ideas supported longer

4. Summer of Student Innovation
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in numbers
2014
38 teams proposed projects
8,400+ votes for the initial proposals
via Jisc Elevator.
28 teams reached their voting target
of 250 votes from 10 organisations
20 projects were funded £5000 each,
the summer school starts 14 July 2014
2015
80 teams proposed ideas
12,600+ votes for the initial proposals
via Jisc Elevator.
43 teams reached their voting target
(varied by competition)
25 projects were funded, 9 student
ideas, 10 FE Ideas, 2 apprentice led
and 4 start-up projects

5. The competitions in 2015
 TheStudent Ideas
Competition
 Supporting
TechnologyStartup
Projects
 The LearnerIdeas in
FECompetition
 TheApprentice Led
IdeasChallenge
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http://elevator.jisc.ac.uk/

6. Design Sprints
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7. Student ideas projects
Stage 1 (August 2015)
 20 teams attended a 4 day residential
design sprint
 Pitched to selection panel
Stage 2 (Sept 2015 onwards)
 Six selected ideas will be taken forward
to be developed into apps, websites or
products
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August 2015

8. Student Project Pitches
Pitches on student projects and ideas.
1. MattTerrell – Call for Participants
2. Anish Bagga – Unitu
3. Steven Singer – ideas from 2015 competition
and design sprints
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9. Summer of Student Innovation 2015 9
“Unitu closes the feedback loop by making it
easy for student unions and university staff to
collect, represent and act upon student
feedback.”
An entirely new way to listen and engage with
the student voice
Unitu saves time for:
 Reps
 Staff (Admin and HoD’s)
 Student Unions
Go to unitu.co.uk
for a demo

10. Summer of Student Innovation 2015 10
In 2014-2015 Unitu:
Successfully trialled at SOAS and
Roehampton University.
Has an increasing uptake from students,
reps and staff.
Enhanced the QA review of the
Roehampton Psychology department.
Will be launching in several other
institutions such as:
• Swansea University
• Reading University
• Bishop Burton College
• Pearson College
• Greenwich University
Unitu will help you:
 Evaluate and enhance the
student experience across the
whole institution
 Optimise resource allocation
 Provide strategic input to key
investment decisions

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The StudentVoice Platform
www.unitu.co.uk
@officialunitu
Want a demo?
 Find us at ALT-C
 Email anish@unitu.co.uk
 Got unitu.co.uk

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Coursemash
Imperial College
London
A tool to help
students to view and
make better module
options.
Provides different
views of module
choices to deal with
simple and complex
programmes.

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commUNItime
Middlesex University
An app that connects university
students with the local community.
Helping charities to find students
with required skills and expertise to
undertake voluntary work.
Providing students with skills and
experience to make them more
employable.

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SportsCovered App
Heart of Worcestershire
College
Team: Sports Student at a
college
An app that outlines the
laws of various sports
along with technique
points allowing the user to
analyse their performance.
Take video clips of sports
performance and assess
against criteria.
Target audience students,
coaches and tutors.

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SALT:The Student's Academic
LiteracyTool
University ofTeesside
Team: Psychology University
Students
Helping aid students in improving
the standard of their academic
writing at university.
A self-assessment diagnostic tool,
that keeps a longitudinal record or
improvement and provides tips,
hints and peer support.

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BrightHubApp
Yeovil College
The team: students training to be
electricians who are seeking
apprenticeships.
An app to help apprentice
electricians to engage with
employers so they can secure an
apprenticeship.
The app will integrate subject
videos, resource content and peer
reviews to allow small employers to
identify suitable apprentices.

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VoiceIt
Treloar College
Team: Students and staff at a
specialist college
An accessible app for students with
special needs to report issues
anonymously or give feedback.
The app will be able to report life
issues such as bullying,
relationships, family etc. which will
direct a message to the
appropriate support person.

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Zone BookingApp
Swindon College
Team: LearningTechnology
Apprentice.
An app to book computers in a
college for independent study.
Students are unable to book
computers in colleges.
Many colleges don’t have access to
suitable software and are seeking a
low cost solution.

19. Activity
Produce a poster that either
1. Shows how you could engage with and implement the product from
one of the student innovation ideas you have heard about today.
2. Shows how you could engage students in developing ideas to submit
to next years summer of student innovation competition
Anish and Matt will be available to discuss ideas and approaches.
Criteria for competition
• Feasibility of the approach
• Innovation of the approach
• Quality of the poster design
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Approaches to engage with student innovation

20. Benchmarking the student digital experience
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Jisc, NUS andTSEP – bit.ly/digistudentexp

21. Accessible by Design
Competition to improve accessibility and inclusion in post-16 education.
Open to submissions 14 September 2015
Open to teams of staff and/or students.
To register an interest join accessiblebydesign@jiscmail.ac.uk
See
https://www.jisc.ac.uk/rd/projects/accessible-by-design
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22. Contacts
Contacts:
Paul Bailey paul.bailey@jisc.ac.uk
Steven Singer steven.singer@jisc.ac.uk
Further Information:
http://www.jisc.ac.uk/student-innovation
http://elevator.jisc.ac.uk/
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