Following the traces: What learning analytics can tell us about student use o...Moira Sarsfield
Presented at the UCISA Digital Education Group event 'Beyond lecture capture: enhancing the student experience', 14 June 2018, Woburn House, London.
Link to video now included - see slide 22.
Note - Unfortunately the audio and video are out of sync by about 6 seconds; a fix is being investigated by the provider.
Note 2 - I recommend listening at 1.5x speed!
This document provides an overview of PredictED, a pilot learning analytics project at an unnamed university. The project used data from the university's virtual learning environment (VLE) to provide weekly feedback emails to 1,184 opted-in students across 17 first-year modules. The emails aimed to encourage students to engage more with course content online. Most students (76%) and lecturers opted into the program. Academic performance was higher on average for participants compared to non-participants in 8 of 10 analyzed modules. Students reported studying and engaging more with the VLE due to the feedback. The document also briefly discusses the types of student data that could potentially be used for predictive analytics and the importance of students' academic networks.
The document discusses evidence-informed quality enhancement of Moodle adoption at Manchester Metropolitan University. It analyzes data from the Internal Student Survey and automatic Moodle audits to identify best practices and areas for improvement. Thematic analysis of student comments identified 18 themes for best features and 25 themes for needed improvements. Moodle audit data is also analyzed by faculty and unit to drive quality consistency across departments and programs. The ongoing process aims to improve the student experience through targeted staff training and refinements to Moodle templates and checklists.
Continuing adventures of library learning analyticsSelena Killick
Paper co-authored with Richard Nurse and Helen Clough; presented at the Library Assessment Conference 2018, Houston. Explores student attendance at Library online training sessions and their attainment scores.
This document summarizes Information Literacy initiatives at CPUT. It discusses the Information Literacy policy, committee, and certificate program. The certificate program includes 5 modules taught over 5 weeks and is assessed through a multiple choice test. Statistics on participation in the program from 2009-2015 are provided. Challenges include large class sizes, scheduling sessions, and ensuring teaching skills for librarians. Next steps discussed are improving long-term skills retention, taking a departmental approach, and integrating Information Literacy across subjects and levels as a graduate attribute.
Discussing the challenges and issues in learning ATLAS.ti among graduate stud...Merlien Institute
The document discusses challenges graduate students face in learning to use ATLAS.ti software for qualitative data analysis. It describes a training provided to improve students' understanding, including reducing the number of participants and increasing training time. Student feedback revealed challenges like time limitations, lack of exposure to the software, and analyzing multi-media data. Overall the training helped students but could be improved by making it an annual event.
Connecting Library Instruction to Web Usability: Improve User ExperienceYoo Young Lee
This document summarizes a study conducted by Yoo Young Lee and Eric Snajdr at Indiana University Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI) that tested the effectiveness of browse-focused versus search-focused library instruction on freshman students. Two sections of an introductory science course received different styles of instruction, and their ability to browse versus search library resources was tested before and after using a usability tool. The results showed that the browse-focused instruction increased browsing habits while the search-focused instruction increased searching habits after the library sessions.
Following the traces: What learning analytics can tell us about student use o...Moira Sarsfield
Presented at the UCISA Digital Education Group event 'Beyond lecture capture: enhancing the student experience', 14 June 2018, Woburn House, London.
Link to video now included - see slide 22.
Note - Unfortunately the audio and video are out of sync by about 6 seconds; a fix is being investigated by the provider.
Note 2 - I recommend listening at 1.5x speed!
This document provides an overview of PredictED, a pilot learning analytics project at an unnamed university. The project used data from the university's virtual learning environment (VLE) to provide weekly feedback emails to 1,184 opted-in students across 17 first-year modules. The emails aimed to encourage students to engage more with course content online. Most students (76%) and lecturers opted into the program. Academic performance was higher on average for participants compared to non-participants in 8 of 10 analyzed modules. Students reported studying and engaging more with the VLE due to the feedback. The document also briefly discusses the types of student data that could potentially be used for predictive analytics and the importance of students' academic networks.
The document discusses evidence-informed quality enhancement of Moodle adoption at Manchester Metropolitan University. It analyzes data from the Internal Student Survey and automatic Moodle audits to identify best practices and areas for improvement. Thematic analysis of student comments identified 18 themes for best features and 25 themes for needed improvements. Moodle audit data is also analyzed by faculty and unit to drive quality consistency across departments and programs. The ongoing process aims to improve the student experience through targeted staff training and refinements to Moodle templates and checklists.
Continuing adventures of library learning analyticsSelena Killick
Paper co-authored with Richard Nurse and Helen Clough; presented at the Library Assessment Conference 2018, Houston. Explores student attendance at Library online training sessions and their attainment scores.
This document summarizes Information Literacy initiatives at CPUT. It discusses the Information Literacy policy, committee, and certificate program. The certificate program includes 5 modules taught over 5 weeks and is assessed through a multiple choice test. Statistics on participation in the program from 2009-2015 are provided. Challenges include large class sizes, scheduling sessions, and ensuring teaching skills for librarians. Next steps discussed are improving long-term skills retention, taking a departmental approach, and integrating Information Literacy across subjects and levels as a graduate attribute.
Discussing the challenges and issues in learning ATLAS.ti among graduate stud...Merlien Institute
The document discusses challenges graduate students face in learning to use ATLAS.ti software for qualitative data analysis. It describes a training provided to improve students' understanding, including reducing the number of participants and increasing training time. Student feedback revealed challenges like time limitations, lack of exposure to the software, and analyzing multi-media data. Overall the training helped students but could be improved by making it an annual event.
Connecting Library Instruction to Web Usability: Improve User ExperienceYoo Young Lee
This document summarizes a study conducted by Yoo Young Lee and Eric Snajdr at Indiana University Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI) that tested the effectiveness of browse-focused versus search-focused library instruction on freshman students. Two sections of an introductory science course received different styles of instruction, and their ability to browse versus search library resources was tested before and after using a usability tool. The results showed that the browse-focused instruction increased browsing habits while the search-focused instruction increased searching habits after the library sessions.
Ways of Seeing Learning - Learning Analytics for LearnersMary Loftus
Mary Loftus is a PhD student at NUI Galway supervised by Michael Madden. Her research is in machine learning and learning analytics. She is interested in reframing learning analytics to better capture the complexity of learning and support student reflection. Her goals are to develop probabilistic machine learning models to make learning more transparent for students and scaffold their use of a learning analytics system to inform metacognition. She plans to study the impact of this approach on students in a computing course. Key challenges include student engagement, model complexity, data integration, and ethical issues regarding data ownership.
The survey found that:
- 92% of districts offer out-of-school programs for elementary/middle schools
- Over 90% of superintendents rate programs as important and believe they improve skills in areas like reading, math, and science
- 92% plan to continue or expand offerings in the next 1-5 years despite most expecting funding to remain the same or decrease
- Decision-makers believe the programs provide many benefits for students like improved academics, social interactions, and test scores as well as being important for the community
The Vision Project Performance Incentive Fund is designed to support innovative work that will advance the Vision Project goals for Massachusetts' national leadership in certain key educational outcome areas in higher education. How is UMass Lowell spending its $108K grant to advance these goals? Presented at a meeting of the Massachusetts Board of Higher Education on January 31, 2012.
This document summarizes two studies. The first was a comparative study that observed four classes totaling 98 students using an educational video game. It found the game shifted the environment from teacher-centered to student-centered, actively engaging students. The teacher evolved implementation strategies over time. The second was a non-comparative study surveying 522 university students about e-learning satisfaction. It found gender and job status influenced perceptions of predictors and satisfaction, while job status and learning styles moderated the relationship between predictors and satisfaction.
This document discusses how school librarians and media coordinators can use action research to improve their programs and advocate for their value. It defines action research as systematic inquiry conducted by educators to solve relevant classroom and school issues. Conducting action research connects to professional standards by helping librarians collect data on student learning and use it to make evidence-based decisions and changes. Findings from action research can also be leveraged to advocate for and improve the school library media program.
The document discusses Ohio's approach to measuring student success using value-added data. It provides an overview of Ohio's value-added timeline and system, which uses SAS EVAAS software to process data and provide diagnostic tools, accountability measures, and support for educators. The system aims to measure student growth and the impact of teaching beyond single test scores. EVAAS was developed from research on measuring teaching effectiveness, and accounts for factors like poverty that can impact achievement. Overall, the document introduces Ohio's approach to analyzing longitudinal student performance data to support classroom and school improvement efforts.
The document discusses outcomes assessment and the use of ePortfolios at LaGuardia Community College. It describes how assessment is designed to evaluate institutional effectiveness, student growth over time, and student achievement of programmatic and general education competencies. Assessment involves reviewing student work samples from ePortfolios using developed rubrics, with results returned to programs to inform steps for improvement. The process engages an Assessment Leadership Team, administrators, faculty, program directors, faculty who work with students on competencies and portfolios, and students who deposit work for assessment.
Understanding Students' Engagement with Personalised Feedback MessagesHamideh Iraj
Understanding Students' Engagement with Personalised Feedback Messages
Honourable Mention Full Paper
The 10th International Learning Analytics and Knowledge Conference (LAK20)
From assessment to action: Impact of student assessment data on educational policy reform for sustainable future.
Autors: Laura Paviot and Mioko Saito, from IIEP-UNESCO
1. The document summarizes early experiences with converting courses to open educational resources (OER) at the Open University of Tanzania (OUT) as part of a collaborative project with OER Africa.
2. An initial working retreat was held where OER support staff and lecturers participated in OER conversion activities and reflected on the process and barriers faced.
3. Key learnings included the need to revise OUT's OER conversion process to involve quality assurance and library personnel more, and to continue institutional support to fully implement OER and the upcoming OER policy at OUT.
Speakers:
Steve Hoole, senior analytics consultant, Jisc
Karl Molden, senior planning analyst, University of Greenwich
An opportunity to find out about how an institution has been implementing learning analytics to support the student journey with and opportunity to discuss issues and possibilities that the use of learning analytics may create.
This document outlines the development of an instrument to measure student expectations of quality in learning analytics services. The authors aimed to highlight the importance of service quality and develop a tool to explore what students expect from learning analytics. They created survey items based on themes from prior literature, conducted a pilot study, and refined the instrument using exploratory factor analysis. The resulting survey measures student expectations across two factors: service expectations and ethical expectations. Future work will involve developing a perceptions scale and modeling student intentions to use learning analytics.
Open Access is increasingly a determining part of the structures and processes of scholarly communication, particularly in the emerging open science modus operandi, which presupposes the opening of all research components. Currently, most scholarly communication instances, products and services refer to open access in some way. The bibliographic indexes started to identify open access articles. New publishers were created, most commercial publishers started to publish open access journals or offer authors the possibility to publish open access articles in subscription journals. Open access mega journals have appeared. In developing countries, open access journals predominate, with emphasis on the pioneering SciELO Program, publishing open access journals from 1998, four years before the Budapest Open Access Initiative declaration. The preprints modality with open access availability of manuscripts before evaluation and publication in journals grows and new tools appear. Several innovative models have emerged in recent years to promote open access to journal articles, such as library consortia or crowdfunding. There is still difficulty and resistance from publishers in developing financial models that enable open access, and the calculation of article processing charges (APC) remains opaque. But the main force that can make the universalization of open access viable is public policies, the best example being currently the European Commission’s Horizon 2020 program.
Before this landscape, this panel will analyze progress already achieved, the promising solutions and the persistent barriers in the routes towards the universalization of open access.
Syllabus
The classical open access modalities – gold route journals, green route, new models of open access financing, metrics on the status of open access, barriers to the universalization of open access, and open access policies.
This document summarizes the goals and activities of the Carnegie Knowledge Network (CKN). The CKN aims to synthesize existing research on important education topics to make findings more accessible and useful for practitioners. It focuses on areas with significant gaps between research and practice. The CKN engages experts and practitioners to build consensus on technical issues like value-added models. It also informs policy by assembling balanced perspectives. The document provides examples of CKN work summarizing research on value-added modeling approaches and recommendations. It outlines plans to further address evaluating new systems and variation in teacher effectiveness.
This document discusses ensuring the integrity and interoperability of educational usage and social data through a framework to support competency assessment. It proposes SCALA, an extensible web-platform that integrates usage and social data from different learning tools using the IMS Caliper Measurement Framework to provide enriched rubrics for competency assessment. SCALA aims to make competency assessment more objective, scalable, and able to uncover latent skills by analyzing integrated educational and context data.
The survey found that academic staff value the contributions of library staff to information literacy education. 98% worked with libraries to help students find and evaluate sources for assignments. Most (88.6%) saw improvements in the quality of sources students used. Academics want more online IL resources for their teaching and to track the impact of IL interventions over time. Disciplines differed in their preferred IL session formats and needs around referencing. Overall, there was strong support for library-academic partnerships in developing students' information literacies.
Using Analytics for Institutional Transformation - Dr. Yvette Mozie-Ross - Un...Blackboard APAC
To achieve its strategic goals, UMBC realized it needed to become a more data-driven institution by deploying more sophisticated tools and procedures to help staff find and analyze data in a timely way. Specifically, the university needed ways that users could develop accurate and easily configurable reports to support operational management decisions and strategic analysis, which a data warehouse made possible. In this talk, Dr. Mozie-Ross will describe how UMBC successfully implemented its data warehouse by resolving campus-wide issues with buy-in, IT partnering with IR, governance, and cost.
Speakers:
David Lewis, senior analytics consultant, Jisc
Martin Lynch, learning systems manager, University of South Wales
An opportunity to find out about how an institution has been implementing learning analytics to support the student journey with and opportunity to discuss issues and possibilities that the use of learning analytics may create.
Ways of Seeing Learning - Learning Analytics for LearnersMary Loftus
Mary Loftus is a PhD student at NUI Galway supervised by Michael Madden. Her research is in machine learning and learning analytics. She is interested in reframing learning analytics to better capture the complexity of learning and support student reflection. Her goals are to develop probabilistic machine learning models to make learning more transparent for students and scaffold their use of a learning analytics system to inform metacognition. She plans to study the impact of this approach on students in a computing course. Key challenges include student engagement, model complexity, data integration, and ethical issues regarding data ownership.
The survey found that:
- 92% of districts offer out-of-school programs for elementary/middle schools
- Over 90% of superintendents rate programs as important and believe they improve skills in areas like reading, math, and science
- 92% plan to continue or expand offerings in the next 1-5 years despite most expecting funding to remain the same or decrease
- Decision-makers believe the programs provide many benefits for students like improved academics, social interactions, and test scores as well as being important for the community
The Vision Project Performance Incentive Fund is designed to support innovative work that will advance the Vision Project goals for Massachusetts' national leadership in certain key educational outcome areas in higher education. How is UMass Lowell spending its $108K grant to advance these goals? Presented at a meeting of the Massachusetts Board of Higher Education on January 31, 2012.
This document summarizes two studies. The first was a comparative study that observed four classes totaling 98 students using an educational video game. It found the game shifted the environment from teacher-centered to student-centered, actively engaging students. The teacher evolved implementation strategies over time. The second was a non-comparative study surveying 522 university students about e-learning satisfaction. It found gender and job status influenced perceptions of predictors and satisfaction, while job status and learning styles moderated the relationship between predictors and satisfaction.
This document discusses how school librarians and media coordinators can use action research to improve their programs and advocate for their value. It defines action research as systematic inquiry conducted by educators to solve relevant classroom and school issues. Conducting action research connects to professional standards by helping librarians collect data on student learning and use it to make evidence-based decisions and changes. Findings from action research can also be leveraged to advocate for and improve the school library media program.
The document discusses Ohio's approach to measuring student success using value-added data. It provides an overview of Ohio's value-added timeline and system, which uses SAS EVAAS software to process data and provide diagnostic tools, accountability measures, and support for educators. The system aims to measure student growth and the impact of teaching beyond single test scores. EVAAS was developed from research on measuring teaching effectiveness, and accounts for factors like poverty that can impact achievement. Overall, the document introduces Ohio's approach to analyzing longitudinal student performance data to support classroom and school improvement efforts.
The document discusses outcomes assessment and the use of ePortfolios at LaGuardia Community College. It describes how assessment is designed to evaluate institutional effectiveness, student growth over time, and student achievement of programmatic and general education competencies. Assessment involves reviewing student work samples from ePortfolios using developed rubrics, with results returned to programs to inform steps for improvement. The process engages an Assessment Leadership Team, administrators, faculty, program directors, faculty who work with students on competencies and portfolios, and students who deposit work for assessment.
Understanding Students' Engagement with Personalised Feedback MessagesHamideh Iraj
Understanding Students' Engagement with Personalised Feedback Messages
Honourable Mention Full Paper
The 10th International Learning Analytics and Knowledge Conference (LAK20)
From assessment to action: Impact of student assessment data on educational policy reform for sustainable future.
Autors: Laura Paviot and Mioko Saito, from IIEP-UNESCO
1. The document summarizes early experiences with converting courses to open educational resources (OER) at the Open University of Tanzania (OUT) as part of a collaborative project with OER Africa.
2. An initial working retreat was held where OER support staff and lecturers participated in OER conversion activities and reflected on the process and barriers faced.
3. Key learnings included the need to revise OUT's OER conversion process to involve quality assurance and library personnel more, and to continue institutional support to fully implement OER and the upcoming OER policy at OUT.
Speakers:
Steve Hoole, senior analytics consultant, Jisc
Karl Molden, senior planning analyst, University of Greenwich
An opportunity to find out about how an institution has been implementing learning analytics to support the student journey with and opportunity to discuss issues and possibilities that the use of learning analytics may create.
This document outlines the development of an instrument to measure student expectations of quality in learning analytics services. The authors aimed to highlight the importance of service quality and develop a tool to explore what students expect from learning analytics. They created survey items based on themes from prior literature, conducted a pilot study, and refined the instrument using exploratory factor analysis. The resulting survey measures student expectations across two factors: service expectations and ethical expectations. Future work will involve developing a perceptions scale and modeling student intentions to use learning analytics.
Open Access is increasingly a determining part of the structures and processes of scholarly communication, particularly in the emerging open science modus operandi, which presupposes the opening of all research components. Currently, most scholarly communication instances, products and services refer to open access in some way. The bibliographic indexes started to identify open access articles. New publishers were created, most commercial publishers started to publish open access journals or offer authors the possibility to publish open access articles in subscription journals. Open access mega journals have appeared. In developing countries, open access journals predominate, with emphasis on the pioneering SciELO Program, publishing open access journals from 1998, four years before the Budapest Open Access Initiative declaration. The preprints modality with open access availability of manuscripts before evaluation and publication in journals grows and new tools appear. Several innovative models have emerged in recent years to promote open access to journal articles, such as library consortia or crowdfunding. There is still difficulty and resistance from publishers in developing financial models that enable open access, and the calculation of article processing charges (APC) remains opaque. But the main force that can make the universalization of open access viable is public policies, the best example being currently the European Commission’s Horizon 2020 program.
Before this landscape, this panel will analyze progress already achieved, the promising solutions and the persistent barriers in the routes towards the universalization of open access.
Syllabus
The classical open access modalities – gold route journals, green route, new models of open access financing, metrics on the status of open access, barriers to the universalization of open access, and open access policies.
This document summarizes the goals and activities of the Carnegie Knowledge Network (CKN). The CKN aims to synthesize existing research on important education topics to make findings more accessible and useful for practitioners. It focuses on areas with significant gaps between research and practice. The CKN engages experts and practitioners to build consensus on technical issues like value-added models. It also informs policy by assembling balanced perspectives. The document provides examples of CKN work summarizing research on value-added modeling approaches and recommendations. It outlines plans to further address evaluating new systems and variation in teacher effectiveness.
This document discusses ensuring the integrity and interoperability of educational usage and social data through a framework to support competency assessment. It proposes SCALA, an extensible web-platform that integrates usage and social data from different learning tools using the IMS Caliper Measurement Framework to provide enriched rubrics for competency assessment. SCALA aims to make competency assessment more objective, scalable, and able to uncover latent skills by analyzing integrated educational and context data.
The survey found that academic staff value the contributions of library staff to information literacy education. 98% worked with libraries to help students find and evaluate sources for assignments. Most (88.6%) saw improvements in the quality of sources students used. Academics want more online IL resources for their teaching and to track the impact of IL interventions over time. Disciplines differed in their preferred IL session formats and needs around referencing. Overall, there was strong support for library-academic partnerships in developing students' information literacies.
Using Analytics for Institutional Transformation - Dr. Yvette Mozie-Ross - Un...Blackboard APAC
To achieve its strategic goals, UMBC realized it needed to become a more data-driven institution by deploying more sophisticated tools and procedures to help staff find and analyze data in a timely way. Specifically, the university needed ways that users could develop accurate and easily configurable reports to support operational management decisions and strategic analysis, which a data warehouse made possible. In this talk, Dr. Mozie-Ross will describe how UMBC successfully implemented its data warehouse by resolving campus-wide issues with buy-in, IT partnering with IR, governance, and cost.
Speakers:
David Lewis, senior analytics consultant, Jisc
Martin Lynch, learning systems manager, University of South Wales
An opportunity to find out about how an institution has been implementing learning analytics to support the student journey with and opportunity to discuss issues and possibilities that the use of learning analytics may create.
The document provides an update on the LSU Student Systems Modernization Project. Key activities in Fall 2018 include reviewing and updating student system requirements, holding working sessions to discuss complex multi-institutional scenarios across the student lifecycle, and preparing to demonstrate these scenarios using a prototype Alma Mater University tenant in Workday. The project aims to decommission the outdated LSU A&M mainframe system and implement Workday Student in a phased approach starting with LSUE in 2020 and the other campuses in 2021.
Susie Macfarlane from Deakin University's School of Exercise and Nutrition Sciences gave a presentation on teaching and learning progress and developments in the SENS school. She discussed several initiatives including the development of a digital toolkit for staff, implementation of ePortfolios, use of video and multimedia, creation of eLearning modules using Articulate Storyline, and development of rubrics. Case studies were presented on early pilots of ePortfolio implementation in specific courses. Plans for further course-wide integration of ePortfolios were discussed.
Learning Analytics: New thinking supporting educational researchAndrew Deacon
Learning analytics is the measurement, collection, analysis and reporting of data about learners and their contexts to understand and optimize learning. There are three approaches to analyzing educational data: psychometrics, educational data mining, and learning analytics. Learning analytics is being used to ask new questions by analyzing data from MOOCs and social media at both the micro and macro levels. While analytics can inform educational research, concerns remain about how it may change definitions of knowledge and reduce context.
Student productivity and agency: New ways of conceiving of technology enhance...Charles Darwin University
A presentation provided to staff at the University of Queensland associated with 'Tech Week'. The presentation addressed issues such as: Microcredentials, Productivity tools and behaviours, Advances in AI in learning and teaching, Cheating vs Authentic Assessment and LMS and its evolution/ecology
“Promoting student access and success through research”Tanya Joosten
Presented at the University of Nebraska WorldWide Innovation in Pedagogy and Technology Conference
Tanya Joosten will share the research agenda in the establishment of the National Research Center for Distance Education and Technological Advancement (DETA) funded by the U.S. Department of Education, Fund for the Improvement of Postsecondary Education. DETA seeks to foster student access and success through evidence-based, cross-institutional online learning practices and technologies. Specifically, DETA looks to identify and evaluate effective course and institutional practices in online learning, including competency-based education, for underrepresented populations through rigorous research. The presentation will share DETA's purpose and research agenda, proposed research model for distance education, and opportunities for community engagement, including funding to conduct cross-institutional research.
A Workshop: Promoting Student Access and Success Through ResearchTanya Joosten
Promoting Student Access and Success Through Research
July 7, 2015 - 8:30am
Lead Presenter: Tanya Joosten (University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee, USA)
Track: Blended Models & Course Design
Interactive Workshop - 210 minutes
Location: Governor's Square 14
Virtual Session
Session Duration: 210 Minutes
Workshop Session 1 & 2 (combined)
Abstract:
Participate in the development of a research model to support the National DETA Research Center funded by the U.S. Department of Education.
Extended Abstract
Come help us develop a research model to facilitate cross institutional research on blended instruction. The future of blended learning should be driven by research-based instructional and institutional interventions as the result of cross institutional research impacting access, learning effectiveness, and student satisfaction.
To give you a little background, the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee will share their efforts in the establishment of the National Research Center for Distance Education and Technological Advancement (DETA) funded by the U.S. Department of Education, Fund for the Improvement of Postsecondary Education. They seek to foster student access and success through evidence-based, cross-institutional online learning practices and technologies. Specifically, DETA looks to identify and evaluate effective course and institutional practices in blended and online learning, including competency-based education, for underrepresented populations through rigorous research.
This workshop looks to engage the blended learning community in assisting of the development of DETA's research agenda, including a research model for distance education and research toolkits that can be used by institutions across the country. Through collaborative group discussions, this workshop will look for participants to brainstorm and prioritize ideas around defining student success, identifying key research questions to drive future research, development of shared measures to be gathered by different institutions, creation of instrumentation, and more. The outcomes of this workshop will inform research conducted in 2016. Further, opportunities for community engagement, including funding to conduct cross-institutional research, will be discussed.
For more information on our efforts thus, see http://uwm.edu/deta/summit.
Come be a part of this exciting initiative!
Speakers:
David Lewis, senior analytics consultant, Jisc
Mike Hughes, IT director, City University, London
An opportunity to find out about how an institution has been implementing learning analytics to support the student journey with and opportunity to discuss issues and possibilities that the use of learning analytics may create.
Clearing the Fog: A Learning Analytics Code of Practicesiwelsh
This document outlines Charles Sturt University's code of practice for learning analytics. It discusses the need for such a code due to privacy concerns, potential misuse of data, and the newness of the field. The university's approach includes a code, policy framework, and staff training to provide structure and guidance. The code focuses on ethical intent, student success, and transparency. Lessons learned emphasize broad consultation, engaging students, and balancing policy detail with usability. The code aims to define ethical practice and build trust through transparency.
Learning Analytics: Seeking new insights from educational dataAndrew Deacon
1) Learning analytics seeks new insights from educational data by measuring, collecting, analyzing and reporting data about learners and learning environments to optimize learning.
2) There are three eras of social science research: collecting simple data on important questions; getting the most from little data; and today's "big data" deluge allowing new questions.
3) Educational data can be analyzed through psychometrics, educational data mining, and learning analytics, typically focusing on assessment, learning over time, and wider contexts respectively.
Parallel Trajectories: Distance Learning, OER, and Scaling InnovationAchieving the Dream
This document discusses the Virginia Community College System's (VCCS) efforts to expand distance learning and use of open educational resources (OER) through its Zx23 project. It provides statistics showing growth in distance learning enrollment within VCCS from 2008-2015. The Zx23 project awarded grants to 16 community colleges to develop 6 zero-textbook cost degree programs using OER. Goals included saving students over $4 million in textbook costs by spring 2016. Over 350 faculty members participated across 23 colleges. Initial results exceeded projections with over 18,000 expected enrollments saving $1.8 million for fall 2015.
EWU HETS 2014 - Canvas Adoption in Washington StateDave Dean
This document discusses Eastern Washington University's selection of the Canvas learning management system through a collaborative statewide process. It summarizes that EWU aimed to replace its aging LMS, engaged stakeholders including faculty, evaluated options through a rigorous RFP process, selected Canvas which saw growing adoption rates, and advocates a collaborative approach to LMS selection.
This webinar covered Jisc's Digital Experience Insights service, which conducts surveys of students and staff to understand their digital experiences and identify areas for improvement. The webinar agenda included introductions, an overview of the service, guidance on setting up an institutional insights project, tips for getting started with the surveys, and announcements of new developments. Representatives from the Digital Experience Insights team were on hand to answer any questions about using the service.
Helping researchers manage their data...at the University of Southamptonsesrdm
This document discusses the DataPool service at the University of Southampton which helps researchers manage their data. Some key points:
- DataPool provides training, support and a data repository to help researchers develop skills in research data management.
- They have implemented a number of services including data management planning support, research data storage, and assigning DOIs to deposited data.
- Over 100 data enquiries have been handled covering a wide range of disciplines. Most enquiries are about data management plans, but also include questions about data handling, deposit, and storage.
- Next steps include following up on successful funding bids to provide ongoing support, expanding training programs, and increasing the number of datasets deposited with assigned
Student ExperienceFaculty Development Model - Competency-Based EducationBecky Lopanec
This document summarizes a presentation on student experience models for competency-based education programs. It describes Western Governors University's mentoring model, which uses both student mentors and course mentors. Student mentors work with students throughout their program, while course mentors work with students on individual courses. It also outlines Sinclair Community College's coaching model, which provides different levels of support based on student needs. The presentation highlights best practices from these models and solicits questions from attendees about supporting students in competency-based education.
The ITS Strategic Plan 2016-2020 outlines goals and objectives to guide the ITS Division in supporting students, faculty and staff at CSUSB over the next four years. The plan was developed through a collaborative process involving presentations, forums, meetings and surveys with campus stakeholders. Feedback was organized into operational, tactical and strategic categories, with the strategic plan focusing on the latter. The five strategic goals address strengthening online support and instruction, improving customer service, enhancing analytics, ensuring stable infrastructure, and increasing community engagement. Objectives under each goal are aligned with the university's strategic plan and CSU trustee initiatives. Implementation of the plan will help ITS support the academic mission of CSUSB.
This document summarizes a webinar presented by James Toon on the University of Edinburgh's use of the Pure research information system. The University of Edinburgh implemented Pure in 2011 to track research outputs and outcomes for strategic management and external compliance purposes like the Research Excellence Framework. Pure collects information on publications, funding, projects, press mentions and more. It has been successful in meeting REF2014 requirements and its use is growing as research administration becomes more important. Key factors in its adoption were support from research administration and focus provided by external policy drivers like REF. Maintaining data quality remains an ongoing challenge.
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Sankey, M. 2023. Creating a new culture around authenticity and generative AI. Research Bazaar Northern Territory. Charles Darwin University. Darwin. 25-26 October.
The document summarizes key points from a discussion on reimagining authentic curriculum and assessment in the age of generative AI. It includes:
1. Three major challenges are contract cheating, impersonation, and generative AI which can produce written work.
2. There are opportunities to use AI to enhance student learning and productivity if designed appropriately. Students could become creators by using AI to aid understanding or produce new learning resources.
3. Authentic assessment needs to move beyond essays and emphasize real-world skills through activities like presentations that cannot be produced by AI as well as balancing written work with other assessments.
Sankey, M. 2023. Embracing student innovation in the age of Generative AI (Keynote Presentations). The 2023 WATTLE forum: InspirEd Horizons: Embracing Educational Innovation and Generative AI. University of Wollongong. 25 September.
A presentation to the Learning Technologies Advisory Group at Edith Cowan University, that considers some recent innovations and the what allowed those innovations, AI generated teaching content, The metaverse,
Assessment now and the next big ideas
Presented at the Anthology – Innovate & Educate Australia – 2023. In this presentation I’ll lay foundation of the role academic integrity plays in relation to Generative AI and what this means for authentic assessment.
It will then provide examples of some contemporary approaches to the use of Generative AI in Assessment, from across the sector and,
in this particular case, we will consider what this might look in the Ultra platform.
I’ll provide a sector perspective as to what 34 of our Australian Uni’s are doing in relation to this. Based on the findings of a very recent sector-wide survey of Directors of TEL, conducted under the auspices of ACODE.
This presentation considers some recent innovations and what has allowed them to work in education thanks to technology. It then discusses key technologies and practices and assessment integrity & AI generated content. Lastly it looks at what’s the next big thing for technology enhanced learning.
Technology & Social Inclusion: Enhancing the First Year Experience
• Overview of current technology trends in higher education and their impact on student social inclusion
• Examples of successful technology-based initiatives aimed at improving the first-year experience for students
• Potential challenges and ethical considerations related to the use of technology for social inclusion
• Strategies for integrating technology into existing programs and resources to promote social inclusion
• Future directions for technology-based initiatives in promoting social inclusion in first year experience.
Presented at: ENHANCING STUDENT RETENTION & SUCCESS THROUGH FIRST YEAR EXPERIENCE, ORIENTATION AND SOCIAL INCLUSION: 2023. SkillingSA
Prof Michael Sankey, Director: Charles Darwin University
A presentation on what authentic assessment may look like in a post ChatGPT world. Presented on the 26 July to an Educational Design Workshop held at Charles Darwin University. His ten priorities for assessment include:
- Reduce emphasis on final high-stakes exams
- Reduce propensity for wide-spread quizzes for key assessments
- Look for opportunities for program-wide assessments (alignment across units)
- Weight assessment aligned with level of learning
- Increase emphasis on formative feedback for learning (feedback literacy)
- Designing active, collaborative, authentic assessment
- Increase the use of WIL, group and peer assessment
- Increase ‘assessment for inclusion’
Increased use of multimodal assessment
- Reduce essays and long form text that can be easily cheated
A presentation to the Academic staff of SISTC (Sydney International School of Technology and Commerce) on different techniques to adopt to work with Generative AI, such as ChatGPT and to consider different forms of assessment.
Slides from my ACODE Presidential Address at the THETA Conference in Brisbane.
Sankey, M. 2023. ACODE Presidential Address. HETA 2023 Making Waves. Brisbane Convention Centre. Brisbane. 16-19 April.
Sankey, M. 2023. Embracing AI for student and staff productivity. THETA 2023 Making Waves. Brisbane Convention Centre. Brisbane. 16-19 April.
Abstract: ChatGPT, and more broadly AI Transformers, has put the cat among the pigeons over recent months. Institutions are looking at different ways to provide the best possible advice to our staff and students. There is now consistent agreement, there can potentially be very positive outcomes for both students and staff, but we first need to understand this as a community. The theme of the ACODE 88 Meeting 2 March 2023 was ‘Embracing AI for student and staff productivity’. As this workshop we had some 200 participants; Director of TEL, Managers and Educational Designers, all bringing perspectives from their own institutions, to benchmark and understand were we stand on this complex, but exciting issue. As an output from this workshop, ACODE have developed a White paper, to help provide the sector with a way forward, one developed together.
A presentation to the The International Micro-Credentials Summit. MicroHE Consortium. Barcelona, Spain. 20-24 March
The presentation considers:
- The rise of the skills economy in Australia and the Universities Accord
- The role Microcredentials will play in this
- The Governments Microcredentials Framework
- Development of the national MicroCredSeeker portal
- Grants and funding availabl from the government to build new industry-linked credentials
- and some future directions.
please cite: Sankey, M. (2023). Slowly moving from strength to strength: Micro-Credentials Downunder. The International Micro-Credentials Summit. MicroHE Consortium. Barcelona, Spain. 20-24 March
Rethinking (higher) education ideas to stimulate challenging conversations.Charles Darwin University
Please cite: Sankey, M. (2023) Rethinking (higher) education ideas to stimulate challenging conversations. Education for the digital world: Transformation accelerator - learning session 3. University of Adelaide. 17 March.
A presentation to the University of Adelaide Leadership team.
The University has embarked on a Transformation Accelerator journey to design a future-fit Education for a Digital World strategy. The accelerator process involves five intensive co-design sessions that bring together more than 30 design participants from across the University, including Academic and Professional staff and Students. Participants have been challenged to be bold to formulate a distinctive and future-fit learning experience for future University of Adelaide learners, staff and stakeholders.
Three design sessions have now taken place, which have focussed on the future of education and the perspective of future learners. Inputs have included the CSIRO megatrends that might alter the landscape of higher education, drawing on a variety of experts and hearing from current and future students and prospective industry employers. Future learner profiles also provided an understanding of how our future learners will consume education.
A series of guest speaker sessions have been arranged for participants and wider University colleagues, covering a diverse range of relevant topics.
This presentation focuses on 6 trends in Australia:
- The rise of the skills economy
- The real possibilities of Microcredentials
- The challenge of AI – Learning tools, Analytics & Cheating
- The true hybridization of learning opportunities
- Getting real about First Nations Knowledges and diversity
- The work readiness of our graduates
Providing examples and considerations.
The document discusses challenges in contemporary online learning and how approaches have evolved. It notes that while online learning has been around for over 20 years, what was previously considered good practice is now being challenged by more student-centered approaches enabled by new technologies that allow for greater collaboration. It emphasizes the need for educators to consider changing assessments to be more authentic and interactive to better prepare students for today's environment.
This presentation was delivered to the James Cook University Scholarship of Teaching and Learning Community of Practice (COP) on the 13 October 2022. It talks though what SoTL is, the benefit to Academic staff from different disciplines and the definite this can have to the University. It provides examples and anecdotes of practice and how this could be applied in and across academic discipline practices. A video of slightly a different version of this presentation can be accessed from https://youtu.be/qy6E57CyAOM
Slide 12 citation: Pienaar, J., & Clifton, D. (2018). Scholarly activity and the scholarship of learning and teaching. Central Queensland University (this may not be the exact title, description supplied by author).
The document discusses microcredentials in Australian universities and their cross-border opportunities. It presents a maturity model for micro-credentials that was developed from a survey of higher education providers in 2021. The model indicates sectors' maturity based on factors like whether they have a platform for delivering microcredentials. It also discusses opportunities for Australian universities to offer microcredentials internationally, such as for critical skill acquisition, pathways to higher education, professional development, and industry partnerships. Importantly, microcredentials' portability requires accreditation.
Re-discovering authentic, collaborative and active learning within a TEL ecologyCharles Darwin University
Presented at the Blackboard/Anthology Annual Teaching and Learning Conference 24 & 25 August 2022.
Abstract: It’s not easy to rethink teaching and assessment, particularly when not trained to do so. Or what you’ve been doing still seems to work OK. But contemporary education has been quietly moving on in most disciplines. Not the least reason being, academic integrity, preparing students for the world of work and a push to provide constructively aligned curriculum to help students position themselves for this. This shift involves new technologies, that provide new options for users that didn’t exist in the past. This presentation will highlight a range of approaches to teaching and assessment that have been used for decades in traditional classrooms, but post-COVID we now look at them through a new set of glasses that highlight their value in the virtual classroom. The aim is to stand on the shoulders of those who have gone before, to learn from them, and not consigning what they did to the history books, just because ‘we now teach online’.
Advancing Hybrid Delivery: Viewing Lessons From the Past ButSeeing Them Thro...Charles Darwin University
A presentation at the 3rd APAC Virtual Campus Forum on July 26th-28th, 2022.
This presentation: The necessity for us to rethinking delivery and assessment in the light of current trends
We’ve been slowly shifting the goal posts for a number of years now. But why?
Academic integrity, cheating vs authentic assessment
Preparing students for the world of work
This shift has partly occurred due to the advent of new technologies
Contemporary technologies have allowed us to re-invigorate different assessment types more common to the past
We will look at some things that were old but are now new again.
Advancing knowledge by learning from the past, but by seeing this through TEL...Charles Darwin University
This was a presentation at the Exploring Boundaries of Global Citizenship conference being run by Swinburne Vietnam.
In this presentation I look at:
The necessity for us to rethinking delivery and assessment in the light of current trends
We’ve been slowly shifting the goal posts for a number of years now. But why?
1) Academic integrity, cheating vs authentic assessment
2) Preparing students for the world of work
This shift has partly occurred due to the advent of new technologies
Contemporary technologies have allowed us to re-invigorate different assessment types more common to the past
We will look at some things that were old but are now new again
How to Make a Field Mandatory in Odoo 17Celine George
In Odoo, making a field required can be done through both Python code and XML views. When you set the required attribute to True in Python code, it makes the field required across all views where it's used. Conversely, when you set the required attribute in XML views, it makes the field required only in the context of that particular view.
This slide is special for master students (MIBS & MIFB) in UUM. Also useful for readers who are interested in the topic of contemporary Islamic banking.
Chapter wise All Notes of First year Basic Civil Engineering.pptxDenish Jangid
Chapter wise All Notes of First year Basic Civil Engineering
Syllabus
Chapter-1
Introduction to objective, scope and outcome the subject
Chapter 2
Introduction: Scope and Specialization of Civil Engineering, Role of civil Engineer in Society, Impact of infrastructural development on economy of country.
Chapter 3
Surveying: Object Principles & Types of Surveying; Site Plans, Plans & Maps; Scales & Unit of different Measurements.
Linear Measurements: Instruments used. Linear Measurement by Tape, Ranging out Survey Lines and overcoming Obstructions; Measurements on sloping ground; Tape corrections, conventional symbols. Angular Measurements: Instruments used; Introduction to Compass Surveying, Bearings and Longitude & Latitude of a Line, Introduction to total station.
Levelling: Instrument used Object of levelling, Methods of levelling in brief, and Contour maps.
Chapter 4
Buildings: Selection of site for Buildings, Layout of Building Plan, Types of buildings, Plinth area, carpet area, floor space index, Introduction to building byelaws, concept of sun light & ventilation. Components of Buildings & their functions, Basic concept of R.C.C., Introduction to types of foundation
Chapter 5
Transportation: Introduction to Transportation Engineering; Traffic and Road Safety: Types and Characteristics of Various Modes of Transportation; Various Road Traffic Signs, Causes of Accidents and Road Safety Measures.
Chapter 6
Environmental Engineering: Environmental Pollution, Environmental Acts and Regulations, Functional Concepts of Ecology, Basics of Species, Biodiversity, Ecosystem, Hydrological Cycle; Chemical Cycles: Carbon, Nitrogen & Phosphorus; Energy Flow in Ecosystems.
Water Pollution: Water Quality standards, Introduction to Treatment & Disposal of Waste Water. Reuse and Saving of Water, Rain Water Harvesting. Solid Waste Management: Classification of Solid Waste, Collection, Transportation and Disposal of Solid. Recycling of Solid Waste: Energy Recovery, Sanitary Landfill, On-Site Sanitation. Air & Noise Pollution: Primary and Secondary air pollutants, Harmful effects of Air Pollution, Control of Air Pollution. . Noise Pollution Harmful Effects of noise pollution, control of noise pollution, Global warming & Climate Change, Ozone depletion, Greenhouse effect
Text Books:
1. Palancharmy, Basic Civil Engineering, McGraw Hill publishers.
2. Satheesh Gopi, Basic Civil Engineering, Pearson Publishers.
3. Ketki Rangwala Dalal, Essentials of Civil Engineering, Charotar Publishing House.
4. BCP, Surveying volume 1
বাংলাদেশের অর্থনৈতিক সমীক্ষা ২০২৪ [Bangladesh Economic Review 2024 Bangla.pdf] কম্পিউটার , ট্যাব ও স্মার্ট ফোন ভার্সন সহ সম্পূর্ণ বাংলা ই-বুক বা pdf বই " সুচিপত্র ...বুকমার্ক মেনু 🔖 ও হাইপার লিংক মেনু 📝👆 যুক্ত ..
আমাদের সবার জন্য খুব খুব গুরুত্বপূর্ণ একটি বই ..বিসিএস, ব্যাংক, ইউনিভার্সিটি ভর্তি ও যে কোন প্রতিযোগিতা মূলক পরীক্ষার জন্য এর খুব ইম্পরট্যান্ট একটি বিষয় ...তাছাড়া বাংলাদেশের সাম্প্রতিক যে কোন ডাটা বা তথ্য এই বইতে পাবেন ...
তাই একজন নাগরিক হিসাবে এই তথ্য গুলো আপনার জানা প্রয়োজন ...।
বিসিএস ও ব্যাংক এর লিখিত পরীক্ষা ...+এছাড়া মাধ্যমিক ও উচ্চমাধ্যমিকের স্টুডেন্টদের জন্য অনেক কাজে আসবে ...
How to Manage Your Lost Opportunities in Odoo 17 CRMCeline George
Odoo 17 CRM allows us to track why we lose sales opportunities with "Lost Reasons." This helps analyze our sales process and identify areas for improvement. Here's how to configure lost reasons in Odoo 17 CRM
it describes the bony anatomy including the femoral head , acetabulum, labrum . also discusses the capsule , ligaments . muscle that act on the hip joint and the range of motion are outlined. factors affecting hip joint stability and weight transmission through the joint are summarized.
LAND USE LAND COVER AND NDVI OF MIRZAPUR DISTRICT, UPRAHUL
This Dissertation explores the particular circumstances of Mirzapur, a region located in the
core of India. Mirzapur, with its varied terrains and abundant biodiversity, offers an optimal
environment for investigating the changes in vegetation cover dynamics. Our study utilizes
advanced technologies such as GIS (Geographic Information Systems) and Remote sensing to
analyze the transformations that have taken place over the course of a decade.
The complex relationship between human activities and the environment has been the focus
of extensive research and worry. As the global community grapples with swift urbanization,
population expansion, and economic progress, the effects on natural ecosystems are becoming
more evident. A crucial element of this impact is the alteration of vegetation cover, which plays a
significant role in maintaining the ecological equilibrium of our planet.Land serves as the foundation for all human activities and provides the necessary materials for
these activities. As the most crucial natural resource, its utilization by humans results in different
'Land uses,' which are determined by both human activities and the physical characteristics of the
land.
The utilization of land is impacted by human needs and environmental factors. In countries
like India, rapid population growth and the emphasis on extensive resource exploitation can lead
to significant land degradation, adversely affecting the region's land cover.
Therefore, human intervention has significantly influenced land use patterns over many
centuries, evolving its structure over time and space. In the present era, these changes have
accelerated due to factors such as agriculture and urbanization. Information regarding land use and
cover is essential for various planning and management tasks related to the Earth's surface,
providing crucial environmental data for scientific, resource management, policy purposes, and
diverse human activities.
Accurate understanding of land use and cover is imperative for the development planning
of any area. Consequently, a wide range of professionals, including earth system scientists, land
and water managers, and urban planners, are interested in obtaining data on land use and cover
changes, conversion trends, and other related patterns. The spatial dimensions of land use and
cover support policymakers and scientists in making well-informed decisions, as alterations in
these patterns indicate shifts in economic and social conditions. Monitoring such changes with the
help of Advanced technologies like Remote Sensing and Geographic Information Systems is
crucial for coordinated efforts across different administrative levels. Advanced technologies like
Remote Sensing and Geographic Information Systems
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Changes in vegetation cover refer to variations in the distribution, composition, and overall
structure of plant communities across different temporal and spatial scales. These changes can
occur natural.
Main Java[All of the Base Concepts}.docxadhitya5119
This is part 1 of my Java Learning Journey. This Contains Custom methods, classes, constructors, packages, multithreading , try- catch block, finally block and more.
A review of the growth of the Israel Genealogy Research Association Database Collection for the last 12 months. Our collection is now passed the 3 million mark and still growing. See which archives have contributed the most. See the different types of records we have, and which years have had records added. You can also see what we have for the future.
The three tiered approach to learning analytics for teachers
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The three tiered approach to
learning analytics for teachers
Associate Professor Michael Sankey
Director
Learning Environments and Media
@michael_sankey
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Abstract
If analytics are to be of any use to our
teachers it needs to be:
1) accessible,
2) user friendly, and
3) extendable.
We will see how USQ is currently sharing data across
systems to monitor student behaviours across courses
and to enhance learning support:
• RightNow-CRM system (AskUSQ)
• Moodle (USQ StudyDesk)
We will look at how this can is being extended by:
• Moodle engagement plugin
• a USQ Data Warehouse
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Three phase approach
• In 2013/4 SAF funding (longer term vision)
• Developed a 3 phase plan towards developing
learning analytics
• Provide information in context when required
Phase1
Provide
access to
cross-course
support help
data
Phase2Provide
basic
engagement
analytics
Phase3
Develop L&T
dashboard
and extend
across
systems
2013 2014 2015 2016
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Phase 1
• Provide access to cross-course help data
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Source: Adapted from Kek (2006, 2011, 2012), Bronfenbrenner (1979), Biggs (2003)
Institutional Level (Exo Systems)
Student Level (Micro System)
ProductPresage Process
Data framework.
University
structural
factors such
as level of
study, mode
of study
Co-curricular
Program &
Services/
Student
Services
Academic
Faculty/
Departments
Demographic
Motivation
Family
Other
Learning
and
development
Student
outcomes
Academic
performance
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Next Phase
• Finish building the Reporting Dashboards
• Identify the top questions
• Develop an expanded set of success measures (expected
outcomes)
• What are the top questions academics want answered?
• Are they any different to what we have now?
• Questions?
Editor's Notes
Conceptually data situated at two levels … so we have to collect those ‘data’ that impacts student outcomes …
Key message here - you need 3 types of data - input data ---- experience data ----- outcomes data
Indiv data – gender, residency status, study level
Distal – mode of study, faculty, campus
Distal – LAPsx
Proximal – Final #course enrolled