ALASI19
Australian Learning Analytics Symposium
University of Wollongong, NSW, Australia
28-29 November 2019
Scaling Personalised Student Communication Current Initiatives and Future Directions
Workshop facilitated by Abelardo Pardo, Danny Liu, Lorenzo Vigentini, Marion Blumenstein with six cases using personalised student communication at scale.
Contact: Abelardo Pardo abelardo.pardo@unisa.edu.au
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OnTask video
Watch our new OnTask Actionable Feedback for Students video (4mins)
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ALASI18
Australian Learning Analytics Symposium
Monash University, Melbourne, Australia
21-23 November 2018
Connecting Data with Student Feedback in a course
Prof Abelardo Pardo, Lisa Lim and Yi-Shan Tsai will be presenting a hands-on workshop at the upcoming ALASI18 symposium
Contact: Prof Abelardo Pardo abelardo.pardo@unisa.edu.au
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Open University of Japan
OUJ International Symposium
Open University Japan, Tokyo, Japan
8 September 2018
Keynote: From Data to Tangible Actions in Digital Education
OUJ held the international symposium at Tokyo Bunkyo Student Centre with the theme ‘New Era of OUJ: challenges of Data/Evidence-based Education & Management’. Prof Abelardo Pardo delivered a keynote titled ‘From Data to Tangible Actions in Digital Education’, which generated animated discussion afterwards. Prof Pardo also presented a seminar on how to use OnTask for personalised feedback.
Contact: Prof Abelardo Pardo abelardo.pardo@unisa.edu.au
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NWU
North West University, Potchefstrom, South Africa
June, 2018
Adoption of OnTask
Ongoing discussions regarding adoption of OnTask institutionally.
Contact: Prof Abelardo Pardo abelardo.pardo@unisa.edu.au
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Quality Assurance Agency for Higher Education
United Kingdom
June, 2018
Presentation: Evidence for Enhancement: Improving the Student Experience
Session presented by Dr Yi-Shan Tsai
Contact: Prof Abelardo Pardo abelardo.pardo@unisa.edu.au
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German Institute for International Educational Research (DIPF)
Germany
June, 2018
Installation of Ontask
Installation of OnTask tool for research purposes.
Contact: Prof Abelardo Pardo abelardo.pardo@unisa.edu.au
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UTS
UTS Futures
Sydney, Australia
14 June, 2018
Using Student Data to provide Semi-automated personalised feedback
This half day tutorial introduced OnTask to UTS participants. The tutorial was led by Prof. Abelardo Pardo however UTS colleagues will be interested to note that it is inspired in part by the work that Jurgen Schulte has been validating here in Science for years, providing hundreds of weekly, personalised feedback emails to students in large classes.
Contact: Prof Simon Buckingham-Shum Simon.BuckinghamShum@uts.edu.au
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Open Apereo 2018 Conference
The Open Source Conference for Education
Montreal, Canada
3-7 June, 2018
OnTask: Facilitating Feedback at scale though personalised support actions
Following the inclusion of the OnTask project into the the Apereo Incubation Process, Prof Abelardo Pardo presented at the Open Apereo Conference in Montreal.
Contact: Prof Abelardo Pardo abelardo.pardo@unisa.edu.au
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University of Adelaide
Workshop Presentation
University of Adelaide, Australia
June, 2018
Connecting Data with Student Feedback
Four hour hands-on OnTask tutorial facilitated by Prof Abelardo Pardo.
Contact: Prof Abelardo Pardo abelardo.pardo@unisa.edu.au
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UNSW Sydney LA-Eds
Research Group Meeting and Presentation
UNSW Sydney, Australia
17 May, 2018
Seminar: Trojan horse Analytics
Dr Lorenzo Vigentini and Dr Danny Liu delivered a seminar entitled: Trojan horse analytics – hooking educators across institutions on personalising learning support and feedback using practical LA platforms. During the session they discussed two projects: the Student Relationship Engagement System (SRES) and the On-Task project, funded by the OLT focusing on the personalisation of feedback at scale. They also provided an opportunity to demonstrate the tools in practice and discuss possible use scenarios.
Contact: Dr Lorenzo Vigentini l.vigentini@unsw.edu.au
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Apereo Incubation Process
Apereo Foundation Incubation Process
USA
April, 2018
OnTask accepted into Apereo Foundation Incubation Process
OnTask Project accepted into the highly competitive Apereo Foundation Incubation Process.
Contact: Prof Abelardo Pardo abelardo.pardo@unisa.edu.au
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University of Auckland
Workshop and presentation
University of Auckland, New Zealand
23-24 April, 2018
Connecting Data with Student Feedback
The University of Auckland hosted Professor Abelardo Pardo on the 23rd and 24th of April, 2018. There was a four-hour hands-on OnTask workshop, entitled: Connecting Data with Student Feedback on the 23rd which attracted over 30 participants from the University’s ITS Division, Business Intelligence Team, as well as academic teaching staff, researchers and learning designers. A number of the participants were highly complimentary of the OnTask software tool and several of the teaching staff, who have been using the Java version of SRES (developed by Auckland, Sydney & Otago Universities), are actively planning and preparing to move to OnTask in the second semester of this academic year.
An academic presentation, entitled: Providing Personalized Student Support in Blended Learning at Scale was delivered to the academic community on the 24th of April and attracted over 40 attendees. There was quite a lot of positive feedback for the presentation including from doctoral students focused on learning analytics research and a member of the central Business Intelligence group who wrote that it was “a truly excellent presentation.”
Contact: Prof Abelardo Pardo abelardo.pardo@unisa.edu.au
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LAK18
The 7th International Learning Analytics & Knowledge Conference
University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia
5-7 March, 2018
Personalising Feedback at Scale: approaches and practicalities
This half day workshop facilitated by Dr Lorenzo Vigentini, Dr Danny Liu, Dr Roberto Martinez-Maldonado and Lisa Lim brought together scholars and practitioners to explore interesting examples of effective feedback, demonstrate the use of supporting tools, and explore what and how data can be used to improve the process and richness of feedback for both learners and educators.
Contact: Dr Lorenzo Vigentini l.vigentini@unsw.edu.au
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University of Edinburgh
Workshop
University of Edinburgh, Scotland
December, 2017
Connecting Data with student support actions in a course
A practical hands-on workshop and a talk were delivered at the University of Edinburgh by Professor Pardo and Prof Dragan Gasevic in December 2017 t to developing thinking around how best to support learning and teaching at scale, and to developing a more nuanced understanding about learning analytics within the institution.
Contact: A/Prof Abelardo Pardo abelardo.pardo@unisa.edu.au
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ALASI17
Australian Learning Analytics Summer Institute
University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia
December, 2017
Providing Data- driven personalised support for students in large classes
A/Prof Abelardo Pardo, Dr Sheridan Gentili and Lisa Lim trialled the OnTask tool in their ALASI2017 workshop titled ‘Providing data-driven personalised support for students in large courses’. The attendees tried the tool in a hypothetical learning experience. They used a synthetic dataset to explore which personalised messages would apply, and how to capture that personalisation with conditions and actions in OnTask. At the end of the sessions attendees shared their resulting actions and the rationale behind them. Overall the audience considered the tool useful and providing support for a task that is not currently properly addressed by existing technology.
Contact: A/Prof Abelardo Pardo abelardo.pardo@unisa.edu.au
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LASI17
Learning Analytics Summer Institute
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA
12 – 15 June, 2017
From Data to Student Support Actions
Hands on workshop facilitated by A/Prof Abelardo Pardo at the Learning Analytics Summer Institute.
Contact: A/Prof Abelardo Pardo abelardo.pardo@unisa.edu.au
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The University of Hong Kong
Faculty of Education
16 May 2017
Articulating the Connections between Learning Analytics and Learning Design
Presentation to the Faculty of Education and the Centre for the Enhancement of Teaching and Learning, Hong Kong University
Contact: A/Prof Abelardo Pardo abelardo.pardo@unisa.edu.au
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Unlocking the Future of Higher Education
Strand Campus, Kings College, London, UK
24 April, 2017
Dr Simon McIntyre was invited to present at the Unlocking the Futures of Higher Education Conference King’s Online, King’s College London in April.Simon outlined the long term vision for using learning analytics at the UNSW Art & Design campus using Ontask in his talk entitled ‘A strategy for synthesising curriculum, peer learning communities, and data analytics in an undergraduate design program’The conference was attended by delegates from the universities of the PLuS Alliance – UNSW Sydney, Arizona State University, and King’s College London. The ideas were received well and there was a lively Q&A session afterwards around equity of such a data driven learning model and the ethics of using data in this way.
For more information contact: Dr Simon McIntyre s.mcintyre@unsw.edu.au
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LAK 17
The 7th International Learning Analytics & Knowledge Conference
Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, BC, Canada
13–17 March, 2017
Connecting Data with Student Support Actions in a Course: A Hands-on Tutorial
The amount of data extracted from learning experiences has grown at an astonishing pace both in depth due to the increasing variety of data sources, and in breath with courses now being offered to massive student cohorts. However, in this emerging scenario instructors are now facing the challenge of connecting the knowledge emerging from data analysis with the provision of meaningful support actions to students within the context of an instructional design.
The half-day session comprises of a set of hands-on activities with prepared material. Attendees are required to bring their own laptop. The nature of the topic will appeal to researchers and practitioners in the areas of learning analytics, educational data mining, instructional design, and any academic interested in improving the timeliness and relevance of feedback and support for their students. Attendees are not required to have experience with any programming language but need to be familiar with the conventional data management procedures required in a course with a large number of students such as for example combining scores and observations from multiple sources.
For more information: https://latte.ee.usyd.edu.au/lak17tutorial/
Or contact: A/Prof Abelardo Pardo abelardo.pardo@sydney.edu.au
