4. Project Lighthouse - our R&D process
• multi-year project
• develop core technology to better support teaching and learning with
digital resources, using the principles of connected content
• iterative development with ongoing feedback from academia
5. Project Lighthouse - HE Digital Environment
• A unification point is required
• to work across heterogeneous digital learning tools, services, platforms:
• consistent experience across different content: audio, video, text, epub, office docs…
• improve academic, course, and student study workflows
• fit in well with existing academic systems
• make things simpler and better: not another VLE
• enable engagement analytics to be collected in a unified way
6. Project Lighthouse - Talis Player
• Universal Content
• pdf, office docs, video, audio….
• Universal Collaboration
• discussions and annotation
• work the same on all content types, platforms
• Universal Analytics
• Capture engagement on all content, desktop, mobile, app, all content
8. Project Lighthouse - Engagement Analytics
• Simple interactive visualisation of module and resource engagement
• available “up front” in context
• Teacher and student access
• Enterprise API
• Campus LAK initiatives
• Input into content acquisition process
9.
10. “I really wanted to know how useful the documents we
supply actually are [ for students], so for me the
analytics have been brilliant"
[Quote from academic feedback session, Anglia Ruskin University]
11. “I put content and for me it's easy and I really like it. So
I am positively enthusiastic. It’s like - brilliant, I've got it
all sorted out.”
[Quote from academic feedback session, Anglia Ruskin University]
12. Project Lighthouse - 2016 Aspire upgrade
• Key Project Lighthouse technologies - such as the Talis Player – will
begin transitioning into Talis Aspire.
• mainstreaming availability of player enhancements, learning analytics and
collaboration features in Aspire
• but will remain option for all customers as to if, how, and when they utilise
• Project Lighthouse continuing role
• ongoing R&D, new feature development
• we’re just getting started…
