We now have representatives from 27 different commercial organisations registered to attend this session. Jisc Learning Analytics Architecture – Vendor Event 12:00 – 16:00, Thurs 21st April 2016 Brettenham House, 5 Lancaster Place, London, WC2E 7EN Location information: https://www.jisc.ac.uk/contact Agenda 12:00 – 13:00 Arrival, lunch and networking 13:00 – 13:45 Introduction to the Effective Learning […]
A year after our first networking event we were back at the University of East London on 3rd Feb 2016. Interest in learning analytics has grown hugely over the past year, and we had nearly 100 people this time. We had an action-packed agenda with a lot of expertise provided by the various presenters. After a welcome […]
Thurs 21st April, 12-4pm, Brettenham House, London. ->Location You can now register for Jisc’s event for vendors interested in our open architecture for learning analytics. The architecture builds on open source and commercial tools to provide the components of a learning analytics service for UK higher and further education. It’s designed to allow a wide variety of data sources […]
This guest post from Jitse van Ameijde of the Open University describes a micro-project which Jisc recently funded to develop a student workload tool. Student workload is an ever present concern in all higher education institutions for those designing, developing or delivering curriculum. Student workload contributes to students’ decisions around withdrawing from study and is among […]
In this guest post Karl Molden and Veronika Hulikova of the University of Greenwich report on one of Jisc’s micro-projects in learning analytics. Karl will present the project’s findings at the next UK Learning Analytics Network meeting at the University of East London on 3rd Feb. Synopsis The aims of this project are to show that […]
Around 90 people signed up for our latest event which took place last week at Bradford University. Trevor Meek and his colleagues provided the venue, and we spent most of the day examining aspects of Jisc’s architecture for learning analytics and looking at ethical, legal and adoption issues for institutions. Michael Webb started off the […]
The discovery phase of the learning analytics project provides an opportunity for institutions to access their readiness to implement. The process examines many factors including institutional goals, availability of data, leadership and support, legal and ethical considerations and some technical considerations. The discovery will usually happen before technical implementation is started to assess any remedial […]
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Student App Design – What do you think?
Today we signed off the specification of design of the first release of the learning analytics student app. We expect an IoS and Android version of the app to be available from March 2016. The first release will be based primarily on the existing overview discussed in the previous blog post, Student app for learning analytics: […]
Our app to display learning analytics to students themselves is taking shape. After brainstorming requirements for the app with staff and students at a workshop in London and seeking further input from students at Lincoln University we obtained useful feedback on our draft designs from students at our Summer of Student Innovation (SOSI) session in Birmingham […]
Our third network event took place last week in Nottingham. This is the site of one of the biggest institutional roll-outs of learning analytics in the UK – at Nottingham Trent University – and we were keen to hear from Student Engagement Manager, Ed Foster, about it. But first we spent the morning listening to a […]