This document discusses developing a learning analytics strategy for a higher education institution (HEI). It provides an overview of key considerations in developing a strategy, including identifying goals and stakeholders, addressing privacy and ethics, selecting tools and platforms, collecting and analyzing data, and using insights to improve teaching and learning. The strategy discussed aims to help institutions gain a better understanding of the learner experience and identify areas for improvement through a responsible and ethical use of learning analytics.

1. Developing a Learning
Analytics Strategy for an
HEI

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3. Learning Analytics Community Exchange
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4. LRMI
What on earth could justify
another attempt at
educational metadata?

6. METADATA

7. Open Education
A new world order?

8. Teaching Experiments
Teaching Machines
MOOCs have been (and continue to be) a lot of fun but it has been
incredibly fast!
Now we need some slow time to mull over lessons learned
as
as

9. Is there a Business model for MOOCs?
• A Research focused university
Space to play, money is not an issue
• A Teaching focused university
Freemium? Re-bundling? Need to make money
• A New market entrant
NEETS, meeting unmet needs, who pays???

10. Open Knowledge
Wikipedia and Beyond

11. Open Knowledge Wikipedia &
beyond
Brian and Simon with three other noble participants
Brian explained a lot about Wikipedia
Simon focused on questions of culture/governance
lWikipedia: “five pillars” - the fourth in particular
Wide and free-ranging discussion covering the interests
of the participants …
“fired my enthusiasm for the whole thing”

12. Open Knowledge conclusions
•Wikipedia has little cultural coherence
ldanger of shock on editor entry – needs remedy!
•Gentle enculturation?
ldisassociate from negative cultures, tech, language
lbring in new culture, groups of people together
lmake all editing processes more transparent
•Bring e-learning community into Wikipedia
lupdate and maintain key articles; learn from process
laddress the inevitable tensions; build our culture
Outcomes

13. Web services or cloud,
open source or
outsourced?

14. Web Services or Cloud, Open Source
or Outsourced?
Whatever.

16. eBooks
The learning platform of
the future?

17. Requirements on e-textbooks
• What does an e-texbook need to
do over and above an ebook?
– Characteristics
• Online testing
• Offline testing
• 'unlimited' questions
• Reporting of results
• Discussion (class / world)
• Media
• Citations / quotes
• Gesture / interaction
• Highlighting text, asking
for clarification
Creation
Making your own
Creating a textbook as a learning
experience / growing book
Consumption
Getting your own book
published
Convenient (distribution,
transport)
(Accessible/Individualisation)
Curation
Cheaper
Longevity / Interoperability
Integral / standalone
Backward compatibility with
EPUB2

18. Open Education
From open practice to
open policy

19. Many people,
Many practices,
One community.

20. • People sustain open education not policy or
practice.
• Practice is more powerful than policy but
policy legitimises the practice.
• Policy can be burdensome.
• Unresolved issues about ownership, licensing
and formats.
• Gap between policy and practice.
• Building capacity and developing staff is
critical.

21. Building an
accessible digital
institution

22. Building an Accessible Digital
Institution
Facilitated by Brian Kelly with 5 participants
Reflections:
– We need to build an digital environment which caters
for the needs of people with disabilities
– WAI WCAG standard has high profile but is flawed
– Policy statement too vague (“aspire to WCAG”) or don’t
reflect reality: “All resources are WCAG conformant” –
PDFs in IRs / lecture capture
– WC AG inappropriate in learning (e.g. “all content must
be understandable”)
– BS 8878 provides a pragmatic achievable policy /
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23. Building an Accessible Digital
Institution
Challenges
– Do people care enough to take actions / prioritise
work in this area?
– Is the WCAG policy statement deemed sufficient?
Political Context
– Changes (drastic cuts) to DSA provides a political
context to further work in this area
Next Steps
– Cetis / Techdis work to provide leadership role for
sector
– Encouragement to explore use if BS 8878 across
sector (see 88 seconds video)
– Highlight political context (petition coming
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