jisc digital student data collection and analysis workshop
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Digital student data collection and analysis workshop
London
29/04/15
#digitalstudent http://digitalstudent.jiscinvolve.org
Jisc Digital Student Project» Phase 1 study reviewed students’ expectations and experiences
of the digital environment at university and we spoke to 500 staff and students during our consultation
» We conducted a review of practice in secondary schools to identify likely incoming expectations
» In phase 2 we focused on FE speaking to over 300 staff and 220 learners
» Phase 3 will extend the project to the wider skills sector
» http://digitalstudent.jiscinvolve.org
Transactional Transformational
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Transactional vs transformational
» Accessing networks
» Accessing hardware and software
» Accessing general and course-related information
» Signing on to university systems
» Booking appointments
» Submitting work, receiving grades
» Expectations largely established in advance by transactions with other service providers
» Sharing ideas, engaging in dialogue
» Encountering threshold concepts and practices
» Developing independent study habits
» Collaborating on projects
» Producing new digital artefacts
» Reflecting, reviewing, revising
» Reference management, data analysis, e-journals, specialist tools...
» Developing employability skills for the workplace
» Expectations largely established during studies in dialogue with tutors and peers
A strategic approach
Enhancing the student digital experience online guide:
http://jisc.ac.uk/guides/enhancing-the-student-digital-experience
50 institutional exemplars -http://digitalstudent.jiscinvolve.org/wp/exemplars/
Icebreaker
» Introduce yourself to someone you don’t know on your table
» On 2 post-its record:
› Why are you here….
› What do you want to take away from today….
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» Explore with our stakeholders and end users whether Jisc could produce a prototype for a service to support the collection and analysis of data on student expectations, experiences, attitudes and satisfaction with digital technologies in their studies in UK higher and further education
» The service would make it easier for universities and colleges to collect and analyse student expectations and experience data using well-designed and robust questions, and would enable institutions to compare their data internally (for example by faculty or campus) and with other aggregated, anonymised institutional profiles.
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Aims for today
What institutions (say they) want
» Information collated (e.g. from institutional and national surveys) and horizon scanning undertaken nationally
» Advice on local information gathering and student engagement, e.g. sample surveys, focus group protocols, crowdsourcing software/services, student partnership tools
» Examples of BYOD/build your own service approaches which deliver a robust transactional experience (and ideally a transformational learning experience) e.g. case studies, evaluated examples, shared ideas
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Ways of engaging students in the digital environment» Gathering information
- Surveys, interviews, focus groups to find out about student expectations- Participative / observational methods to explore practices and attitudes- Social media – with students' consent – to collect information- Analyse existing data e.g. NSS/USS/ISB/PRES/local surveys- Learning analytics data with students’ consent
» Stimulating, gathering and responding to ideas- Interactive and fun e.g. crowdsourcing, hashtags, ideas tree, padlet...- Make sure students can share ideas and see how they are acted on
» Initiate an ongoing dialogue with learners
» Partnership projects: 'making things better‘ – Change Agents’ Network http://can.jiscinvolve.org
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Current practice?
» When do you currently gather students’ views on technology?
» What approaches do you use?
» How are students and learners involved?
» How do you analyse the data collected?
» What other sources of data does this feed into?
» How does this data feed into the development of your digital strategy and the digital environment?
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Digital students are different posters
http://bit.ly/digitalstudentposters
Enhancing the digital student experience postcards
http://bit.ly/digitalstudentcards
For all findings and workshop resources:
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http://digitalstudent.jiscinvolve.org
Find out more…
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Digital Student #digitalstudent
Sarah Knight
http://digitalstudent.jiscinvolve.org
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