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Gregynog 201516/06/2015 Jisc R&D
» About Jisc
» Jisc Research & Development (R&D)
» Jisc’s co-design process and progress› Learning Analytics› Application and Resource Platform› Student Summer of Innovation
Outline
MissionTo enable people in higher education, further education and skills in the UK to perform at the forefront of international practice by exploiting fully the possibilities of modern digital empowerment, content and connectivity
Our vision & mission
VisionTo make the UK the most digitally advanced education and research nation in the world
What does Jisc do?
Does 4 things…
Providing and developing a network infrastructure and related services that
meet the needs of the UK research and
education communities
Supporting the procurement of
digital content for UK education and research
Our network of national and regional teams
provide local engagement, advice and support to help you get
the most out of our service offer
Our R&D work, paid for entirely by our major
funders, identifies emerging technologies
and develops them around your particular
needs
Jisc does 4 things…
Our work in this area includes:
» Security
» Connectivity
» Access and identity management
» Procurement
» Cloud
» Internet and IP services
» Telecoms
» Videoconferencing
Our work in this area includes:
» Journals
» e-books
» Maps and geospatial data
» Learning and teaching resources
» Resource discovery
» Film and images
» Repositories
In this area we provide:
» A single point of contact through a dedicated account manager
» Subject specialists
» Communities of practice and peer networking
» Local stakeholder for a
» Training
» A range of online and face to face events (eg Digifest, Networkshop)
We are currently running 34 R&D projects including the following topic areas:
» Collaboration
» Curation and preservation
» Data and analytics
» Digital literacy
» E-learning and VLEs
» Libraries
» Open access
» Research and research data
UK higher and further education in numbers
Jisc Research & Development (R&D)
The Jisc R&D proposition
The goal is
Delivered by
Facilitated by
Using
Developing new national shared technology services
Collaborating across the sector
Jisc as a national body with a technology focus
Jisc’s co-design innovation process
R&D and Jisc service pipeline
Jisc’s co-design process
Co-design partners
142 ideas considered
24 defined and pitched
5 challenges prioritised
>100 senior stakeholders prioritised ideas
> 1000 colleagues consulted
Co-design challenges
Research at risk (R@R)
Prospect to alumnus (P2A)
Learning analytics
Digital learning & capabilities
Implementing FELTAG
Business intelligence
Hosting platform Hosting platform
National learning analytics service
The problem: only ~30 HEIs & FEIs have access to predictive learning analytics• Used to identify
learners not engaged, improving retention and attainment
The solution: national learning analytics system:• Service with cloud–
based infrastructure
• Community• Toolkit
The opportunity:• bring modern
analytics to all UK HEIs and FEIs at low cost
• Extend to personalised learning and ‘big data’ measures of learning gain
The partners: Jisc, SCONUL, HESPA, sector leaders and practitioners
National service live Sept 2015
Open Learning Analytics Service
Student App
Dashboards
Alert and Interventi
on
Machine based learning
Big Data Cloud based learning records store
Consent
SRS etc VLE/Library etc
About student (ETL) Activity (xAPI)
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Code of Practice
26/11/2013
http://www.jisc.ac.uk/guides/code-of-practice-for-learning-analytics
Open Learning Analytics Service
Infrastructure
Storage
Application
Uni A
Efficiency by Multi-tenanting
Uni B
Hosted
Uni C Uni D
Un
i A
Un
i B
Un
i C
Un
i DMulti-tenanted
Elastic
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The problem:• Duplication of
effort creating modern applications
• No mobile/modern .ac.uk authentication service
The solution: modern hosting platform, authentication & integration layers, community and marketplace
The opportunity: a single platform and marketplace, lowering cost of entry to market
The partners: Jisc, app developers, sector software suppliersNow: available to developersDue: App Store July 2015
Application hosting platform
Based upon: Google stack
App store and community
Authentication, authorisation & consent
First & third party apps
APIs and developer services
Cloud platform and services & integration
Jisc application hosting stack
App store &community
Authentication, authorisation & consent
First & third party apps
APIs and developer services
Cloud platform and services & integration
• Analytics• Business Intelligence• Data Services• Open Resources….
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In-house Platform-as-a-service
26/11/2013
Database-as-a-service
Backend-as-a-service
Websites-as-a-service
Auto-scaling
Auto-patching
Auto-backup
Auto-update
Student Summer of Innovation
Jisc Summer of Student Innovation
How it works:
» Create – Make a video to explain your idea
» Share – Upload your video and encourage people to vote
» Vote - If you hit the voting target we will consider it for funding
So if you have a brainwave, come and join us for a Summer of Student Innovation:
http://www.jisc.ac.uk/rd/projects/summer-of-student-innovation
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Jisc Summer of Student Innovation
»Student Ideas Competition
26/11/2013
»Google Ventures Design Sprint
»Close »Student Startup
»Jisc Service
UNPACK
SKETCH
DECIDE
PROTOTYPE
TEST
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Jisc Summer of Student Innovation
»Student Startups
26/11/2013
»Incubate and accelerate
»Close »Startup »Jisc Service
UNPACK
SKETCH
DECIDE
PROTOTYPE
TEST
The first success story
Worldwide take up
»105 active UK universities
»92 international universities
Find out more…
Michael WebbDirector of Technology and Analytics
One CastleparkTower HillBristolBS2 0JAT 020 3697 5800