Slides from talk delivered by Professor Brian Murphy of Ulster University at the second Intelligent Campus Community Event held at the University of Glasgow on the 10th April 2018.

1. Towards the Intelligent Campus: First Steps with AI
Professor Brian Murphy
Director Access, Digital & Distributed Learning
JISC, University of Glasgow, 10th April 2018
1. A cathedral of learning
2. A quart into a pint pot?
3. A touch of re-wiring!
4. Head in the clouds!
5. From hindsight to foresight
6. A Time and a Place for Everything
7. A Building or an Ecosystem?

2. Go www.menti.com
Use the code 44 91 89
Give up to FIVE words
that you associate with
‘Intelligent Campus’

3. Ulster University – a Civic & Regional University
• Health Care
• Data Science
• Enterprise
• 5,000 students
• Life Sciences
• Education
• 5,000 students
• Creative
• Business
• Sport
• Science
• 15,000 students
1865
1890 RUI
1909 NUI
1968
1849
1971
• 4 campuses
• 25,000 students
• 1,200 academic staff
• £260m new build Belfast 1984
GEM
Pharm
Law

4. The business of intelligent buildings…
Source: IET
Higher Education
 autonomous agent
 significant estate
 highly populated
 mass flow and signposting
 access control
 energy control
 education timetables
 range of education activities
 formal and informal settings
 range of user services
o internet
o library
o learning resources
o documents
o records
o student information

5. 1. A Cathedral of Learning
 Cathedral Quarter Belfast
 £260 million
 15,000 people
 Public Realm
 Student Hubs
 2 Lec Theatres 250+
 8 size 100 rooms
 30 size 40+
 35 size 20+
 60 size 12+
 200 size <12
 4 SCALE UP
 Studios
 Laboratries

6. Cathedral Quarter Campus:
Blueprint for Engagement

7. 2. Space - a quart into a pint pot?
Old campus usage
 Requires change of culture before move
Old campus
New campus

8. 3. Systems – a touch of rewiring!
Old campus usage
Education Enhancements

9. Requirements for an Intelligent Campus
Source: Sirrka Freigang, Bosch Connected World
Higher Education requirements
 Wi-Fi
o Ubiquitous
o Bandwidth
 Identity & Access Management
 Education Systems
o Curriculum Management
o Learning Management
o Timetable
o Attendance
o Analytics
 Requires technology change and culture of usage before move

10. 4. Head in the Clouds: Academic Technologies & Policies
Technologies
 VLE (Managed Hosted)
 A&F (SaaS)
 Virtual Classroom (SaaS)
 Attendance (Tool)
 Academic Writing Support (Online)
 Predictive Analytics (SaaS)
 Curriculum Management (Hosted)
 Learning Activity Design (Tool)
 Timetable (Tool)
Policies
 Curriculum Design Principles
 Programme Support Area
 Module Presence
 Online Assessment & Feedback
 Ethics for Analytics

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12. 5. Predictive Analytics – from hindsight to foresight
• Aim to improve retention
• AI – correlation not cause
• Probability of Passing at 50%
• Data from SRS and VLE
• Ethics and GDPR
• Reports at module and programme level
• Essential Training http://addl.ulster.ac.uk/predict
• Pedagogic Research
AME

13. • 25,000 students and staff
• 100s programmes
• 1,000s modules
• 10,000s learning activities
• 100,000s assessments
• 100,000,000s data points
• Learning Activity Design
• Smart Timetable
• Wayfinding
6. A Time and a Place for Everything

14. 7. A building or an ecosystem?