1. June 10-15, 2012 Growing Community; Growing Possibilities Robert Sherratt Patrick Lynch University of Hull

2.  Mon 11 Jun 10:45-11:45  Conference Centre Room 5  Leadership and future directions 2012 Jasig Sakai Conference2

3.  First heard about this at last year’s conference  Undertaking work at Hull to map out the future (eCommons – tomorrow)  Analytics, or analytics-like, ideas kept occurring  Led us to collect these thoughts, start of a learning journey 2012 Jasig Sakai Conference3

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5.  Government creation of a mess  Shift in cost to students ◦ Fees generally increased from £3,500 to £9,000  Change in student expectation ◦ More information to support choices  Shift in providers ◦ Creation of pseudo-market conditions based on price and qualifications ◦ Entry of commercial providers – BPP, part of the Apollo group, Pearson 2012 Jasig Sakai Conference5

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7.  Average sized UK institution – c. 20,000 students and 2,500 faculty and staff  56 th overall in the Complete University Guide league table (out of 116)  Continuing positive feedback from students. Joint 8 th of mainstream english Higher Education Institutions in the National Student Survey 2012 Jasig Sakai Conference7

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9.  The measurement, collection, analysis and reporting of data about learners and their contexts, for purposes of understanding and optimizing learning and the environments in which it occurs. (SoLAR: http://www.solaresearch.org/about/)http://www.solaresearch.org/about/ 2012 Jasig Sakai Conference9

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11.  Education as a black-box  Knowing why students fail and why they succeed – feedback on the course  All educators claim to know their students  Analytics offer an opportunity to personalise the student’s experience  Value from a student’s perspective – guidance on what to considering  Management – how is the course performing? 2012 Jasig Sakai Conference11

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13.  UK picture ◦ CETIS – Analytics Reconnoitre ◦ http://blog.ouseful.info/2011/03/03/ongoing- jisc-projects-of-possible-interest-to-lak11- attendees/ http://blog.ouseful.info/2011/03/03/ongoing- jisc-projects-of-possible-interest-to-lak11- attendees/ ◦ Ten or so examples, many library based ◦ Includes Cambridge & Sakai data ◦ Subsequently a number of retention and progression projects 2012 Jasig Sakai Conference13

14.  Much progress seems to be relatively small scale  The level to which universities engage is varied, but mostly it appears to be small groups with specific remits rather than an institution wide approach  Activity still remains low  Sustainability beyond projects appears limited  But, growing interest 2012 Jasig Sakai Conference14

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16.  Building the Digital University, 2001…  …continues with eCommons – distinctive digital platform for learning, teaching and communications  Part of an institutional conversation looking at implementation of learning, teaching and student experience strategy including ◦ Retention ◦ Development of the distinctive Hull graduate ◦ Library resource utilisation 2012 Jasig Sakai Conference16

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19.  Chemistry – benchmark all 1 st year students at entry – sets a trajectory for them  The focus, and evidence, for an ongoing conversation – looking for signs of underperformance  Increase retention rate by 25% and improved academic performance  A success for little data? 2012 Jasig Sakai Conference19

20.  Bid for internal funding – inspired by a teaching and learning conversation  Analyse Sakai activity data  Focus on access to Resources and participation in Forums  Looking to create a dashboard for students  An equivalent for faculty? 2012 Jasig Sakai Conference20

21.  Student Support Requirements – Prediction Tool app for Chemistry ◦ Fowler, J. and Norrie, P., British Journal of Nursing, (2009), 18(19), p1194  Early warning systems  Targeting support services  Targeting resources 2012 Jasig Sakai Conference21

22.  We are starting the learning journey  Some initial questions: ◦ Where is the gold, is there any? ◦ What is the predictive power? ◦ How robust can any model be? ◦ Ethics – is this big Brother watching? ◦ Who needs to know what? ◦ Complexity - Student performance versus teacher performance versus what other factors?  and... so what (now)? 2012 Jasig Sakai Conference22

23.  Robert Sherratt ◦ r.sherratt@hull.ac.uk r.sherratt@hull.ac.uk  Patrick Lynch ◦ p.lynch@hull.ac.uk p.lynch@hull.ac.uk 2012 Jasig Sakai Conference23