The document discusses using analytics to improve student retention and other outcomes at the University of Kentucky. It describes:
1) Initial steps taken over the past year, including mobile surveys of students, analyzing enrollment, performance, and other data, and using high-speed analytics.
2) Potential future areas of work, such as personalized mobile interactions with students, advanced models of student behavior and performance, improved lecture content discovery and recommendations, and degree planning tools.
3) Various data models already in use, including those tracking enrollment, student demographics and performance, classroom and instructor productivity, and student surveys and interactions.
Analytics Goes to College: Better Schooling Through Information Technology wi...bisg
The focus on the tremendous volume of information about target markets that can be gleaned through the use of powerful analytics technology obscures the reality that, much of the time, that information lacks predictive capacity, and can really only provide a very detailed retrospective analysis of behaviors of interest. Vince Kellen discusses the ways that his university has reorganized and deployed their IT resources to acquire better, more useful information -- and, more importantly, how that information can be immediately translated into decisive action.
Many institutions see technology as a strategy to increase revenues and decrease campus-bases classrooms and resources. However, as emerging technologies shift the course from teaching-centered to learning-centered, historically effective strategies may no longer provide the same return on investment. This session examines how we can maximize the return on value of technology to increase learner engagement, add instructional options, and improve faculty efficacy.
Innovation and the future: Y3 ssp 12 13 l15Miles Berry
The technologies whose study properly forms a part of ICT education develop at an exponential rate, with Moore’s law promising a doubling of computing capacity every couple of years, and global industries and innovative individuals continually finding new applications to use such capacity. The extent to which your school makes use of such innovation is, to some degree, in your hands.
After hearing your presentations, we’ll look at some of the issues raised by the rapid pace of technological change and explore some ways in which schools can best make discerning use of new technology. I also explore some current trends and we look at some technologies that may well find a place in the classroom of the not too distant future, or whatever may replace it.
We conclude with a review of the assessment requirements and an opportunity to reflect on the module.
Educational Technologies: What should you be thinking about next?Jason Zagami
Zagami, J. (2013). Educational Technologies: What should you be thinking about next? [Presentation slides]. Retrieved from http://www.slideshare.net/j.zagami/educational-technologies-what-should-you-be-thinking-about-next?
Presentation for Teacher Education Industry Advisory Group (TEIAG) by Dr Jason Zagami, 6 August 2013, at the Queensland Academy for Health Sciences, Queensland, Australia.
learning in the digital age looks at the way our students our controlled and constrained by orthodox protocols and methodologies. The presentation challenges conventional beliefs yet grounds the challenge in a 'can do' way. We have to work from within a system in order to be able to change it.
Keynote Address, Expanding Horizons 2012, Macquarie University
http://staff.mq.edu.au/teaching/workshops_programs/expanding_horizons
"Learning Analytics": unprecedented data sets and live data streams about learners, with computational power to help make sense of it all, and new breeds of staff who can talk predictive models, pedagogy and ethics. This means rather different things to different people: unprecedented opportunity to study, benchmark and improve educational practice, at scales from countries and institutions, to departments, individual teachers and learners. "Benchmarking" may trigger dystopic visions of dumbed down proxies for 'real teaching and learning', but an emu response is no good. For educational institutions, our calling is to raise the quality of debate, shape external and internal policy, and engage with the companies and open communities developing the future infrastructure. How we deploy these new tools rests critically on assessment regimes, what can be logged and measured with integrity, and what we think it means to deliver education that equips citizens for a complex, uncertain world.
Analytics Goes to College: Better Schooling Through Information Technology wi...bisg
The focus on the tremendous volume of information about target markets that can be gleaned through the use of powerful analytics technology obscures the reality that, much of the time, that information lacks predictive capacity, and can really only provide a very detailed retrospective analysis of behaviors of interest. Vince Kellen discusses the ways that his university has reorganized and deployed their IT resources to acquire better, more useful information -- and, more importantly, how that information can be immediately translated into decisive action.
Many institutions see technology as a strategy to increase revenues and decrease campus-bases classrooms and resources. However, as emerging technologies shift the course from teaching-centered to learning-centered, historically effective strategies may no longer provide the same return on investment. This session examines how we can maximize the return on value of technology to increase learner engagement, add instructional options, and improve faculty efficacy.
Innovation and the future: Y3 ssp 12 13 l15Miles Berry
The technologies whose study properly forms a part of ICT education develop at an exponential rate, with Moore’s law promising a doubling of computing capacity every couple of years, and global industries and innovative individuals continually finding new applications to use such capacity. The extent to which your school makes use of such innovation is, to some degree, in your hands.
After hearing your presentations, we’ll look at some of the issues raised by the rapid pace of technological change and explore some ways in which schools can best make discerning use of new technology. I also explore some current trends and we look at some technologies that may well find a place in the classroom of the not too distant future, or whatever may replace it.
We conclude with a review of the assessment requirements and an opportunity to reflect on the module.
Educational Technologies: What should you be thinking about next?Jason Zagami
Zagami, J. (2013). Educational Technologies: What should you be thinking about next? [Presentation slides]. Retrieved from http://www.slideshare.net/j.zagami/educational-technologies-what-should-you-be-thinking-about-next?
Presentation for Teacher Education Industry Advisory Group (TEIAG) by Dr Jason Zagami, 6 August 2013, at the Queensland Academy for Health Sciences, Queensland, Australia.
learning in the digital age looks at the way our students our controlled and constrained by orthodox protocols and methodologies. The presentation challenges conventional beliefs yet grounds the challenge in a 'can do' way. We have to work from within a system in order to be able to change it.
Keynote Address, Expanding Horizons 2012, Macquarie University
http://staff.mq.edu.au/teaching/workshops_programs/expanding_horizons
"Learning Analytics": unprecedented data sets and live data streams about learners, with computational power to help make sense of it all, and new breeds of staff who can talk predictive models, pedagogy and ethics. This means rather different things to different people: unprecedented opportunity to study, benchmark and improve educational practice, at scales from countries and institutions, to departments, individual teachers and learners. "Benchmarking" may trigger dystopic visions of dumbed down proxies for 'real teaching and learning', but an emu response is no good. For educational institutions, our calling is to raise the quality of debate, shape external and internal policy, and engage with the companies and open communities developing the future infrastructure. How we deploy these new tools rests critically on assessment regimes, what can be logged and measured with integrity, and what we think it means to deliver education that equips citizens for a complex, uncertain world.
Technology (when strategically and practically applied) provides increased accessibility and quality to Higher Education. This presentation was made by USHE Assistant Commissioner and Chief Information Officer Dr. Steve Hess to the State Board of Regents October 29, 2010.
Trends in e-learning: Research & Practices by Ana Paula Correia PhDInês Araújo
Apresentação da Prof.ª Ana Paula Correia (Iowa State University, USA) que decorreu no dia 30 de Novembro no âmbito do MyMPeL 2013 na Universidade Aberta, Lisboa.
Opening/Framing Comments: John Behrens, Vice President, Center for Digital Data, Analytics, & Adaptive Learning Pearson
Discussion of how the field of educational measurement is changing; how long held assumptions may no longer be taken for granted and that new terminology and language are coming into the.
Panel 1: Beyond the Construct: New Forms of Measurement
This panel presents new views of what assessment can be and new species of big data that push our understanding for what can be used in evidentiary arguments.
Marcia Linn, Lydia Liu from UC Berkeley and ETS discuss continuous assessment of science and new kinds of constructs that relate to collaboration and student reasoning.
John Byrnes from SRI International discusses text and other semi-structured data sources and different methods of analysis.
Kristin Dicerbo from Pearson discusses hidden assessments and the different student interactions and events that can be used in inferential processes.
Panel 2: The Test is Just the Beginning: Assessments Meet Systems Context
This panel looks at how assessments are not the end game, but often the first step in larger big-data practices at districts/state/national levels.
Gerald Tindal from the University of Oregon discusses State data systems and special education, including curriculum-based measurement across geographic settings.
Jack Buckley Commissioner of the National Center for Educational Statistics discussing national datasets where tests and other data connect.
Lindsay Page, Will Marinell from the Strategic Data Project at Harvard discussing state and district datasets used for evaluating teachers, colleges of education, and student progress.
Panel 3: Connecting the Dots: Research Agendas to Integrate Different Worlds
This panel will look at how research organizations are viewing the connections between the perspectives presented in Panels 1 and 2; what is known, what is still yet to be discovered in order to achieve the promised of big connected data in education.
Andrea Conklin Bueschel Program Director at the Spencer Foundation
Ed Dieterle Senior Program Officer at the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation
Edith Gummer Program Manager at National Science Foundation
How you can enhance your efficiency and effectiveness for teaching and learni...Jisc
Led by Paul McKean, head of further education and skills, Jisc.
With contributions from:
Rebecca Barrington, head of e-learning and innovation at Cornwall College
Yousef Fouda, group vice-principal, technology, Warwickshire College
Connect more in Cheltenham, 30 June 2016
Stratosphere - Learning in a Connected World is a summary of Fullan's book, Stratosphere and the requirement to link pedagogy, technology and change knowledge if the goal is to have system transformation for learning and teaching in the 21st Century.
This presentation was delivered to OCSOA region two in May 2013. The focus was on the role of leadership in helping to transition a K-12 school district to learning and teaching in the 21st Century.
Created this past May as a means to raise the awareness of educators and innovators in Mississippi about the future of education and how AI, Big Data, Virtual Reality, self-paced eLearning, Intelligent virtual classroom environments and telecommunications will change educational practice.
Personal Learning Environments for Humanitarian Learning and DevelopmentDon Presant
Case study in progress of an initiative designed to balance the needs of learner and organization. Powered by Open Badges. A project of Médecins sans frontières presented at the ePortfolio and Identity Conference 2015.
Best Practices in Online Academic Advising DeliveryLaura Pasquini
The Global Community for Academic Advising (NACADA) has identified the need to educate advisors on how to effectively implement technology into their practice. The NACADA Technology in Advising Commission continues to thrive to support new initiatives and tap into the advising needs for the profession. During the 2009 NACADA Winter Institute, the first hands-on, interactive NACADA Technology Seminar (Pasquini, Steele, Stoller & Thurmond, 2009) introduced participants to a conversation about technology in advising. NACADA continues to support online webinars to share expertise and resources throughout the United States, and across the globe. Other examples of online NACADA development and training initiatives can be found on commission group wikis, regional blogs, slide sharing websites, NACADA Facebook group page and daily on the NACADA Twitter stream.
Overall, a renewed emphasis for collaborative, online engagement in the higher education community is evolving to develop new forms of interaction and assessment. Participants will learn and share examples of online advising delivery being utilized in the advising practice. Session facilitators will share their experience advising with social networks, IM, web conferencing, podcasts, slidecasting, and other online resources. The growing use of social media and online tools, combined with collective intelligence and mass involvement, is gradually but deeply changing the practice of learning (The Horizon Report 2008). Electronic technologies can create a change in pedagogy for students, staff and faculty connected to the advising process. Advising units need to think about online advising development that includes increased participation, self-paced learning design, and continual assessment and feedback.
Webinar slides originally presented by Dr. Dale McManis on September 22, 2011, reviewing best practice tip for selecting developmentally appropriate technology for children.
Technology (when strategically and practically applied) provides increased accessibility and quality to Higher Education. This presentation was made by USHE Assistant Commissioner and Chief Information Officer Dr. Steve Hess to the State Board of Regents October 29, 2010.
Trends in e-learning: Research & Practices by Ana Paula Correia PhDInês Araújo
Apresentação da Prof.ª Ana Paula Correia (Iowa State University, USA) que decorreu no dia 30 de Novembro no âmbito do MyMPeL 2013 na Universidade Aberta, Lisboa.
Opening/Framing Comments: John Behrens, Vice President, Center for Digital Data, Analytics, & Adaptive Learning Pearson
Discussion of how the field of educational measurement is changing; how long held assumptions may no longer be taken for granted and that new terminology and language are coming into the.
Panel 1: Beyond the Construct: New Forms of Measurement
This panel presents new views of what assessment can be and new species of big data that push our understanding for what can be used in evidentiary arguments.
Marcia Linn, Lydia Liu from UC Berkeley and ETS discuss continuous assessment of science and new kinds of constructs that relate to collaboration and student reasoning.
John Byrnes from SRI International discusses text and other semi-structured data sources and different methods of analysis.
Kristin Dicerbo from Pearson discusses hidden assessments and the different student interactions and events that can be used in inferential processes.
Panel 2: The Test is Just the Beginning: Assessments Meet Systems Context
This panel looks at how assessments are not the end game, but often the first step in larger big-data practices at districts/state/national levels.
Gerald Tindal from the University of Oregon discusses State data systems and special education, including curriculum-based measurement across geographic settings.
Jack Buckley Commissioner of the National Center for Educational Statistics discussing national datasets where tests and other data connect.
Lindsay Page, Will Marinell from the Strategic Data Project at Harvard discussing state and district datasets used for evaluating teachers, colleges of education, and student progress.
Panel 3: Connecting the Dots: Research Agendas to Integrate Different Worlds
This panel will look at how research organizations are viewing the connections between the perspectives presented in Panels 1 and 2; what is known, what is still yet to be discovered in order to achieve the promised of big connected data in education.
Andrea Conklin Bueschel Program Director at the Spencer Foundation
Ed Dieterle Senior Program Officer at the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation
Edith Gummer Program Manager at National Science Foundation
How you can enhance your efficiency and effectiveness for teaching and learni...Jisc
Led by Paul McKean, head of further education and skills, Jisc.
With contributions from:
Rebecca Barrington, head of e-learning and innovation at Cornwall College
Yousef Fouda, group vice-principal, technology, Warwickshire College
Connect more in Cheltenham, 30 June 2016
Stratosphere - Learning in a Connected World is a summary of Fullan's book, Stratosphere and the requirement to link pedagogy, technology and change knowledge if the goal is to have system transformation for learning and teaching in the 21st Century.
This presentation was delivered to OCSOA region two in May 2013. The focus was on the role of leadership in helping to transition a K-12 school district to learning and teaching in the 21st Century.
Created this past May as a means to raise the awareness of educators and innovators in Mississippi about the future of education and how AI, Big Data, Virtual Reality, self-paced eLearning, Intelligent virtual classroom environments and telecommunications will change educational practice.
Personal Learning Environments for Humanitarian Learning and DevelopmentDon Presant
Case study in progress of an initiative designed to balance the needs of learner and organization. Powered by Open Badges. A project of Médecins sans frontières presented at the ePortfolio and Identity Conference 2015.
Best Practices in Online Academic Advising DeliveryLaura Pasquini
The Global Community for Academic Advising (NACADA) has identified the need to educate advisors on how to effectively implement technology into their practice. The NACADA Technology in Advising Commission continues to thrive to support new initiatives and tap into the advising needs for the profession. During the 2009 NACADA Winter Institute, the first hands-on, interactive NACADA Technology Seminar (Pasquini, Steele, Stoller & Thurmond, 2009) introduced participants to a conversation about technology in advising. NACADA continues to support online webinars to share expertise and resources throughout the United States, and across the globe. Other examples of online NACADA development and training initiatives can be found on commission group wikis, regional blogs, slide sharing websites, NACADA Facebook group page and daily on the NACADA Twitter stream.
Overall, a renewed emphasis for collaborative, online engagement in the higher education community is evolving to develop new forms of interaction and assessment. Participants will learn and share examples of online advising delivery being utilized in the advising practice. Session facilitators will share their experience advising with social networks, IM, web conferencing, podcasts, slidecasting, and other online resources. The growing use of social media and online tools, combined with collective intelligence and mass involvement, is gradually but deeply changing the practice of learning (The Horizon Report 2008). Electronic technologies can create a change in pedagogy for students, staff and faculty connected to the advising process. Advising units need to think about online advising development that includes increased participation, self-paced learning design, and continual assessment and feedback.
Webinar slides originally presented by Dr. Dale McManis on September 22, 2011, reviewing best practice tip for selecting developmentally appropriate technology for children.
Deriving value from analytics requires much more than purchasing technology. University of Kentucky's analytics journey utilized fostering a bottom-up emergent community of practice as well as top-down organizational maneuvers. This presentation shares different aspects of the University of Kentucky score.
Logistics, Data in Motion and Paradigm Shift of the CIO: The economics and psychology of the flow of information. Advances in IT, especially cloud technologies, are causing a shift in the role of the CIO.
Innovation and economic growth depends on company's ability to gain insight into data. However, data is growing exponentially, but our ability to make use of it is not. Untapped economic value resides in this unutilized data, called "dark data." This presentation looks at some of the causes for the explosion of data, some of the impediments preventing exploring and creating business value from dark data; and some ideas for ways around those impediments.
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learning officers face ongoing challenges growing, sustaining, and innovating online programs. Now that online learning
has entered the mainstream, what is its future? What fads will fade? What trends will be sustained? The audience will be
engaged throughout the presentation with opportunities to discuss the impact online learning has on technological
infrastructure, faculty support, course design, quality assurance / quality control, organizational structures, funding and
grants, and research. By sharing their experiences and insights into the current challenges and future state of online
learning, the presenters will discuss strategic and operational approaches to navigate current and future realities of online
learning. Credit to Dr. Darlene Williams for content on Future Opportunities and Context.
Learning Centers 2.0:
Enhancing Student Learning With Technology
Lisa D’Adamo-Weinstein & Craig Lamb
SUNY Empire State College
Wikis, iPods, blogs, texting…our students are using technology in
ways that make our heads spin. The purpose of this institute is to
get a handle on these technological innovations to help our students
learn better as they engage with our learning centers.
Focusing on current theories and best practices in enhancing
student learning through technology, attendees will learn about
new advances, engage in activities, and plan how to implement
technology to enhance learning assistance on their campuses.
This institute is appropriate for learning assistance, tutorial
services, and developmental education faculty and staff who develop
curriculum, workshops, and other resources for students.
Craig Lamb is the Director of Academic Support at Empire State College's, Center for Distance Learning. While Craig
is working primarily with students in need of additional academic support services and academic skill development,
and with faculty interested in delivering their courses content and material in more effective ways to increase student
learning, he is becoming more and more interested in the creative uses of new technology to enhance student learning
both within and outside the online class environment.
Lisa D'Adamo-Weinstein is currently the Director of Academic Support at Empire State College's Northeast Center.
Lisa has also taught and coordinated academic assistance and learning support programs at Indiana University's Student
Academic Center, including an academic retention course for at-risk students. She was the Coordinator of Student-Athlete
Academic Support at American University in Washington, D.C. Most recently, she directed the Academic
Excellence Program at the United States Military Academy, West Point for seven years until moving in August 2006 to
the NY State Capital Region. Lisa has published journal articles for The Learning Assistance Review (published by
the National College Learning Center Association—NCLCA) and is co-author of the book Piecing It Together: A Guide to Student Success.
Learning analytics and Moodle: So much we could measure, but what do we want to measure? A presentation to the USQ Math and Sciences Community of Practice May 2013
Speakers:
Reza Mosavian, student experience product owner, Tribal
Ken Barrett, student experience product manager, Tribal
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This interactive workshop discusses the links between students’ digital expectations vs reality and what universities and colleges are doing about it. There will be contributions from student experience directors, sharing their experience of creating the conditions necessary to enrich the digital lives of students through open, integrated and future-proof technologies.
Most importantly, please share your experiences and the strategies you’re employing or looking to employ to ensure you remain in touch with your current students and those thinking of studying with you.
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Dear Dr. Kornbluth and Mr. Gorenberg,
The US House of Representatives is deeply concerned by ongoing and pervasive acts of antisemitic
harassment and intimidation at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Failing to act decisively to ensure a safe learning environment for all students would be a grave dereliction of your responsibilities as President of MIT and Chair of the MIT Corporation.
This Congress will not stand idly by and allow an environment hostile to Jewish students to persist. The House believes that your institution is in violation of Title VI of the Civil Rights Act, and the inability or
unwillingness to rectify this violation through action requires accountability.
Postsecondary education is a unique opportunity for students to learn and have their ideas and beliefs challenged. However, universities receiving hundreds of millions of federal funds annually have denied
students that opportunity and have been hijacked to become venues for the promotion of terrorism, antisemitic harassment and intimidation, unlawful encampments, and in some cases, assaults and riots.
The House of Representatives will not countenance the use of federal funds to indoctrinate students into hateful, antisemitic, anti-American supporters of terrorism. Investigations into campus antisemitism by the Committee on Education and the Workforce and the Committee on Ways and Means have been expanded into a Congress-wide probe across all relevant jurisdictions to address this national crisis. The undersigned Committees will conduct oversight into the use of federal funds at MIT and its learning environment under authorities granted to each Committee.
• The Committee on Education and the Workforce has been investigating your institution since December 7, 2023. The Committee has broad jurisdiction over postsecondary education, including its compliance with Title VI of the Civil Rights Act, campus safety concerns over disruptions to the learning environment, and the awarding of federal student aid under the Higher Education Act.
• The Committee on Oversight and Accountability is investigating the sources of funding and other support flowing to groups espousing pro-Hamas propaganda and engaged in antisemitic harassment and intimidation of students. The Committee on Oversight and Accountability is the principal oversight committee of the US House of Representatives and has broad authority to investigate “any matter” at “any time” under House Rule X.
• The Committee on Ways and Means has been investigating several universities since November 15, 2023, when the Committee held a hearing entitled From Ivory Towers to Dark Corners: Investigating the Nexus Between Antisemitism, Tax-Exempt Universities, and Terror Financing. The Committee followed the hearing with letters to those institutions on January 10, 202
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Big Data and Student Retention
1. Using Fast
Analytics to Help
Improve Student
Retention
(and more)
Vince Kellen, Ph.D.
Senior Vice Provost
Academic Planning, Analytics and Technologies
University of Kentucky
vkellen@uky.edu
October, 2013
2. What we have done and what we would like to do
First steps over the past year
• Mobile micro-surveys: Learning from the learner
• Student enrollment, retention, demographics, performance, K-Score, facilities
utilization, instructor workload and more
• High speed, in-memory analytics architectural differences
• Open data and organizational considerations
Coming down the road?
• Micro-segmentation tool to enhance user and IT productivity, develop
personalized mobile student interaction/intervention
• Models for learner technographics, psychographics, in addition to behaviors,
performance, background
• Advanced way-finding for streaming content like lecture capture
• Content metadata extraction and learner knowledge discovery
• Real-time measures of concept engagement and mastery
• Real-time learner recommendations and support engine
• Use graphing algorithms to perform more sophisticated degree audit what ifs
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3. Model
Description
Enrollment
Enrollment in a class, midterm and final grades, credit hours attempted and
earned, instructor teaching the class
Student retention and
graduation
Student demographics and cohort identification (e.g., John Doe is in the 2009
entering first-year student cohort)
Student demographics
Demographics, such as age, high school GPA, entrance test scores (SAT, ACT)
and subcomponent scores. Also, in a secure location, additional personally
identifiable demographic details such as name, address, email, etc.
Student performance
Present the enrollment data in such a way as to easily show the student’s
performance for each term, including credit hours earned, term GPA, cumulative
GPA for that term, etc.
Student academic career Keep a list of the majors and minors for each student and degrees awarded. Also,
include details on students who transfer in and out, including transfer institution,
credit hours transferred in, etc.
Productivity
The room utilization model contains every building, every potential classroom and
lets users analyze the room capacity and enrollments for the class or event in the
room at five minute intervals. The faculty stats per term model pulls together the
number of students and sections taught per term and will contain other important
data such as research expenditures per term and grant proposals submitted and
won.
Micro-surveys
Capture questions and answers from the My UK Mobile micro-survey feature
Student involvement
Interaction history with various applications including the learning management
system, clickers, course capture and playback, academic alerts. Provide the basis
for calculating the student’s K-Score.
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13. WAKE UP! GET TO CLASS!
Who sets alarms for themselves?
Why not automatically set alarms for
students around their schedule?
Why not have automated wake-up
calls?
Why not suggest wake up times
based on class attendance?
Why not consider manipulation of
reminders as a form of engagement?
Can we ascertain student prospective
memory capability and personalize
based on it?
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15. Taxonomy? Automatic metadata? Automatic
atomic metadata?
Let learners navigate an
audio/visual stream
Let the system learn what are top
terms. Let the system map terms
to concepts. Let instructional
designers lightly ‘bump’ the
taxonomy, post production
Record student engagement with
specific terms / concepts
See http://p.uky.edu
Deliver personalized messages to
students
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18. Class slides take a
central position.
The audio/video and
slide content is
synchronized.
19. The note pad allows
recording and
sharing of notes.
20. Personalized
recommendations are a
guide thru the material.
Feedback on engagement
and mastery assist in
gauging understanding.
Resources and tutors are
also provided if a little
assistance is needed.
21. A lecture concept map helps to put the
lecture in a visual context.
The map is generated from analysis of
the text and ‘bumped’ into shape by a
course designer or instructor.
Concepts can be rated to collect
perception of usefulness and improve
future versions.
Jump to the media segment by clicking
on the tag.
Test knowledge with small quizzes – ace
the quizzes and you’re in good shape!
22. A one-stop-shop for searching.
Keywords from the video,
slides, trends, notes and
conversations will appear.
23. Key questions
• Can the audio and slides be reliably transcribed into ‘useful’ text?
• Can a concept map be derived automatically from the text
generated or easily edited by an instructor?
• How easy will it be for designers-instructors to create a quiz and
place it in the right location in the video?
• Can we personalize the recommendations to reflect prior
knowledge, student ability and individual differences in
information processing?
• Can the interface support real-time integration with analytic backends (e.g., HANA)?
This is just one conceptualization.
What other interface designs exist today? How effective are they?
25. Organizational considerations
Integrated IR and BI teams. Added three Ph.D. level data
scientists. Had some turnover.
Translated all old architectures to HANA and retiring old IR data
warehouse. Making everything ‘automatic’ like IPEDS cohort
determinations, enrollment reporting. Moving as much as possible
to self-service. Agnostic on the front end tools.
Opened data. Many have access. Personal data is protected.
Established a data community of practice. Used an ‘always beta’
mode of development. Measuring data quality. Providing data
quality process improvements to the teams.
Started to raise skill sets in colleges and units. Provide support.
Encourage ad-hoc learning opportunities. Help units with job
descriptions and selection of talent.
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26. Be safe and secure. Respect the acceptable use of information policies and guidelines the
university has in place. Please have good passwords and secure your laptop, desktop and other
devices appropriately. Treat private student and UK information appropriately
Be collegial. University data is a community asset and a community of people steward the data.
Use and share the data with the best interests of the university community in mind. Since parts
of our data analysis environment is designed to allow for greater transparency, analysis will
potentially be able to see other unit data. While we will make private to a unit what absolutely
needs to be private, the way the university runs it's business often involves multiple colleges and
units at the same time. Don't use your access to take unfair advantage of another unit.
Help improve data quality. If you see data that doesn't appear to be correct, let someone know.
We have a team of staff dedicated to helping improve data quality. This team can work with
colleges and units on any data entry and data management processes that might need to be
changed to improve data quality.
Be open-minded and inquisitive. Data can be represented in multiple ways at the same time.
While the teams are taking great care to enable multiple views of the data to support the
community, you might have a valid and unique perspective. In time, we can accommodate more
ways of looking at the same data while not interfering with other views or taxonomies.
Share. The main benefit from open analytics is the power of a community of analysts learning
from each other rather than a few select individuals hoarding knowledge or access. As the
community improves its knowledge and skill with the data, the university can improve
accordingly.
27. Personalize learning and support in one architecture
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Real-time personalized interactions
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Target on-demand peer tutoring based on student’s profile
Deliver micro-surveys and assessments to capture additional information
needed to improve personalization
Give students academic health indicators that tell students where they can
improve in study, engagement, support, etc.
Let students opt their parents in to this information so the family can support
the student
Tailor and target reminder services, avoid over messaging, enable timing of
message delivery based on user temporal proclivities
Allow for open personalized learning
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How content gets matched to students is psychologically complex
Several theories of how humans learn give many insights
Students differ in the following abilities and attributes: visual-object, visualspatial, reasoning, cognitive reflection, need for sensation, need for cognition,
various verbal abilities, confidence, persistence, prospective memory, etc.
We need an open architecture to promote rapid experimentation, testing and
sharing of what works and what doesn’t
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28. How technology can help in student success
High
effectiveness
MOOC + PT + F2F
Small F2F class
MOOC + PT
Current MOOC approach
Broadcast class
Low
effectiveness
F2F = Face-to-face
PT = Personalization technology, adaptive
learning technology
Low volume
High volume
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