Adding value to events

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Bigging up Jisc

Stand up If you Attend Events

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The old way

• Write notes• Save notes• Write report• Email report to SRO and team

A Different (Better?) Way

Reference Jisc

Cross ReferenceThe speaker dwelt on the difficulties of remote mentoring and a reliance on email and the finding that face to face worked better. I have to wander whether this was an opportunity for the Institution to help up skill mentor and mentee in remote collaborative working. That way the employer gains benefit through new working practices pioneered by the recent employee (alumni). I’ve often been in conversations about the lack of join up in HEIs between business leaders, ICT leaders and the resulting lack of effectiveness in business benefit fort investment in ICT. The idea of the recent graduate acting as catalyst between SME employer IT and Business Leaders for the same enhancement in impact of ICT to working practices was something I heard about this week in my blog of the Jisc Digital Literacy event.

Capture Complex Slides

Add side conversations

People have approached me to discuss how we maintain the momentum we’ve gathered through the programme. Our conversations have included the concept of widening the net in terms of the professional associations via further joint activities co sponsored and co designed via Values Realisation. We also highlighted the need for resource discovery enhancements in the Design Studio, perhaps via tagging.

Use Humour

Sit near the front

Link to the agenda

Sell your Wares

Pick out your highlightsDr. Marsha Lovett is Director of the Eberly Center for Teaching Excellence and a Teaching Professor in the Department of Psychology, both at Carnegie Mellon University. Throughout her career, Dr. Lovett has been deeply involved in both local and national efforts to understand and improve student learning. Her book How Learning Works: 7 Research-Based Principles for Smart Teaching distills the research on how students learn into a set of fundamental principles that instructors can use to guide their teaching. Dr. Lovett has also developed several innovative, educational technologies to promote student learning and metacognition, including StatTutor and the Learning Dashboard.Marsha poses the question ‘How do we tell how well our students are learning?’Quizzes, homework performance, comparing to previous students / classes etc are traditional ways. Analytics offers new ways giving better and fuller insights into learning performance.In a rich modern course experience by a well respected tutor Marsha found that ‘Students spend 100 + hours across the term yet show only learning gains of 3%’ and asks ‘what improvements can be made by applying analytics as an adaptive, data driven course ‘ and found that 18% learning gain occurred in less than 50 hours.I have to applaud Marsha for giving us some concrete quantitative evidence for performance changes, something that has been lacking in the majority of analytics projects in my experience.

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Benefits

Raises your profile as attendee (and master of the dark arts)Adds value to event, shows you as a leader, shows Jisc as a leaderDraws self selecting audience to Jisc resourcesPromotes to wider audience by retweets and event hash tagPromotes related Jisc workPaints a picture of a truly authoritative organizationReduces your workload (when you walk out the door, your work is done, event attendees and organisers do your promotion work for you)Exposes different disciplines and audiences to one another by cross referencing blog postsIn the spirit of ‘open working’

Have a go!

It’s hard (but gets easier)It forces you to concentrate (really hard)It can be fun

Manage expectations – ‘good enough’ is better than ‘never got around to’ or ‘on my hard drive never to be read’

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