Thursday 12 May 2016

You are invited to this hands-on workshop about providing personalised support for Semester 1 students using learning analytics. Learning analytics ‘on the fly’ within a teaching session involves (a) monitoring individual students’ progress, engagement, and experiences; (b) designing and deploying personalised learning support actions (PLSAs) to further assist or challenge students, depending on their progress to date; (c) evaluating the effectiveness of your support actions; and (d) repeat the cycle until the end of session.

These personalised learning support actions (PLSAs) can include providing additional personalised feedback on learning, designing additional scaffolding for the next assessment task, or sending a personalised email touching base with the student.

In this workshop we’ll consider the range of data already being collected via various University systems and how to access these data sources (e.g. LMS usage, cumulative assessment results, discussion board usage, attendance, etc), and you’ll have the opportunity to think about what else you might like to monitor and how you could collect this information. We will also make use of some basic analytics tools in readily available software (including Blackboard, SRES, Piazza) that can assist you in collating and interpreting this data. Finally you’ll have time to work on designing some personalised learning support actions for your Semester 1 students and also consider how you might evaluate if your support actions ‘worked', all in a collegial collaborative environment. We’ll demonstrate how SRES software could be used to facilitate the deployment of some types of support.

An overview of analytics tools for teachers available at Sydney is at http://www.itl.usyd.edu.au/analytics/analytics-tools-for-teachers.htm.

This workshop is being held as part of an Educational Innovation Grant Project by Dr Melanie Keep, Professor Adam Bridgeman, Dr Kathryn Bartimote-Aufflick, Dr Abelardo Pardo, Dr Danny Liu, Professor Charlotte Taylor and Dr Hong-Dao Nguyen. For more information about the project or to participate, please see: http://bit.ly/1PPjte5

Event details

• When:

  Thursday 12 May 2016
  2.30pm - 4.30pm

• Where:

  Learning and Teaching Space Room 218, Level 2 South Fisher Library, Camperdown campus

• Cost:

  Free: afternoon tea will be provided

registrations closed