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Pre-Conference Workshop M5

Key Steps to Creating and Implementing a Learning Analytics Policy

Date Wednesday, Nov 30 Time   –   RoomCheck Price: free of charge Status: places available

Workshop leaders

OEB speaker Dragan Gasevic

Dragan Gasevic

Professor of Learning Analytics, University of Edinburgh, UK

OEB speaker Jeff Haywood

Jeff Haywood

Vice Principal Digital Education, University of Edinburgh, UK

OEB speaker Adolfo Ruiz Calleja

Adolfo Ruiz Calleja

Senior Research Fellow, Tallinn University, Estonia

OEB speaker Maren Scheffel

Maren Scheffel

Learning Analytics Researcher, Open Universiteit Nederland, The Netherlands

Content

Learning Analytics (LA) is currently a very active topic in education, but its implementation is beset with potential pitfalls for an organisation wishing to develop extensive use of it. Building upon international experience and local knowledge, the EC-funded SHEILA Project (Jan 2016-June 2018) is creating a policy framework for higher education institutions to enable them to design and enact an LA policy for themselves, using an innovative concept mapping approach (ROMA) combined with interviews of key stakeholders in several European countries. It is a partnership of the Universities of Edinburgh (coordinator), Tallinn, Open University NL and Carlos III Madrid, with Brussels Education Services, Erasmus Student Network and European Quality Assurance Network (ENQA).

The project will be at a key stage of development and OEB 2016 offers an opportunity for us to present our interim findings for comment and advice from participants, both novice and expert, in other words a reality check for the project, and also enables participants to take away lessons from other organisations plus a draft LA framework to support discussions in their own universities and organisations.
We shall discuss with participants our interim data from:

  • interviews from senior HEI leaders charged with the implementation of learning analytics to understand the current processes, barriers, and opportunities;
  • concept mapping by international expert panel to identify critical concerns for learning analytics policy;
  • benchmark of the learning analytics sophistication in the European HE sector by administering a survey to members of the EUA.

The workshop aligns with the themes of Learning and Investment (by learners, by organisations) and Learning and Design (of educational opportunities). LA is focused on enhancing the learning experience of learners and at the same time on enabling education providers to design and modify their offerings to be more effective and fit for purpose.

Agenda

The workshop will have max. 15 min. presentations by each speaker, each followed by a 15 min. group discussion session with feedback to enable participants reactions, suggestions, ranking of importance etc. for the points made and the questions posed to them about creating learning analytics policy and implementing it. After the 4 sections of the workshop, a plenary discussion will be held to enable participants to offer further input, to create an overall ranking of policy and implementation factors and to share any further experiences. The workshop will conclude with a short feedback evaluation.

Target Audience

Members of universities, higher education ministries and their agencies, with an interest in learning analytics, especially those charged with developing policy for LA

Prerequisite Knowledge

Some basic understanding and awareness of LA but direct experience or advanced knowledge is not necessary

Outcomes

The session will enable participants to learn at first hand the lessons about learning analytics policy and implementation from a wide range of European universities and educational agencies/ministries. As active participants they will be able to add their own experiences and share these with others, help us to rank and rate critical challenges and solutions in LA policy and implementation and explore the draft LA policy framework which they can take and trial in their own universities.