{"id":3538,"date":"2016-01-13T09:21:34","date_gmt":"2016-01-13T08:21:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.sussex.ac.uk\/tel\/?p=3538"},"modified":"2016-02-03T18:16:36","modified_gmt":"2016-02-03T17:16:36","slug":"learning-analytics-the-social-scholar-and-flipping-assessment-the-sussextel-seminar-series","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.sussex.ac.uk\/tel\/2016\/01\/13\/learning-analytics-the-social-scholar-and-flipping-assessment-the-sussextel-seminar-series\/","title":{"rendered":"Learning analytics, social scholarship and flipping assessment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.sussex.ac.uk\/tel\/files\/2017\/01\/Capture.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-3548 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.sussex.ac.uk\/tel\/files\/2017\/01\/Capture-e1452599191917.jpg\" alt=\"Capture\" width=\"690\" height=\"250\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.sussex.ac.uk\/tel\/files\/2017\/01\/Capture-e1452599191917.jpg 690w, https:\/\/blogs.sussex.ac.uk\/tel\/files\/2017\/01\/Capture-e1452599191917-300x109.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.sussex.ac.uk\/tel\/files\/2017\/01\/Capture-e1452599191917-100x36.jpg 100w, https:\/\/blogs.sussex.ac.uk\/tel\/files\/2017\/01\/Capture-e1452599191917-150x54.jpg 150w, https:\/\/blogs.sussex.ac.uk\/tel\/files\/2017\/01\/Capture-e1452599191917-200x72.jpg 200w, https:\/\/blogs.sussex.ac.uk\/tel\/files\/2017\/01\/Capture-e1452599191917-450x163.jpg 450w, https:\/\/blogs.sussex.ac.uk\/tel\/files\/2017\/01\/Capture-e1452599191917-600x217.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 690px) 100vw, 690px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Happy New Year to all our readers! \u00a0Last autumn saw the start of the 2015\/16 Technology Enhanced Learning seminar series, featuring three engaging sessions from four great speakers:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><a href=\"https:\/\/altc.alt.ac.uk\/blog\/2014\/03\/alts-new-chief-innovation-community-and-technology-officer-martin-hawksey\/\" target=\"_blank\">Martin Hawksey<\/a> (Chief Innovation, Community and Technology Officer for the Association for Learning Technology), <\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.st-andrews.ac.uk\/capod\/contact\/\" target=\"_blank\">Margaret Adamson<\/a> (Head of Learning Technology &amp; IT Skills Development at the University of St Andrews), <\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sussex.ac.uk\/profiles\/76805\" target=\"_blank\">Denise Turner <\/a>(Lecturer in Social Work and Social Care at the University of Sussex),<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.winchester.ac.uk\/Studyhere\/ExcellenceinLearningandTeaching\/Strategy\/ltdu\/Pages\/DrTansyJessop.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">Tansy Jessop<\/a> (Head of Learning and Teaching at the University of Winchester).\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<h3><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sussex.ac.uk\/tel\/workshops\/seminar\/martin-hawksey\"><b>Learning Analytics: Gaining good actionable insight<\/b><\/a><\/h3>\n<div id=\"attachment_3541\" style=\"width: 203px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.sussex.ac.uk\/tel\/files\/2016\/01\/Martin-Hawksey-e1452598760802.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3541\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-3541 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.sussex.ac.uk\/tel\/files\/2016\/01\/Martin-Hawksey-e1452598760802.jpg\" alt=\"Martin Hawksey\" width=\"193\" height=\"419\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.sussex.ac.uk\/tel\/files\/2016\/01\/Martin-Hawksey-e1452598760802.jpg 193w, https:\/\/blogs.sussex.ac.uk\/tel\/files\/2016\/01\/Martin-Hawksey-e1452598760802-138x300.jpg 138w, https:\/\/blogs.sussex.ac.uk\/tel\/files\/2016\/01\/Martin-Hawksey-e1452598760802-100x217.jpg 100w, https:\/\/blogs.sussex.ac.uk\/tel\/files\/2016\/01\/Martin-Hawksey-e1452598760802-150x326.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 193px) 100vw, 193px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-3541\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Martin Hawksey<\/p><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The series kicked off in October with a talk from Martin Hawksey on learning analytics which provided insight into the possible challenges that we encounter and what we might expect for the future. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Martin described learning analytics as a continual process which is constantly being redefined and improved. Learning analytics can play a vital role in improving feedback loops, for example, observing the duration\u00a0students spent watching videos to determine optimal video lengths, or examining quiz results to highlight common misconceptions.<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Martin stressed that before concentrating upon data, analysis and action we must first think about what we are trying to find out, and what questions we need to ask. <\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Furthermore, we were told that data visualisations can be misleading, a human interface is needed to explain what it actually means. Perhaps the most important points Martin raised were the need to keep in mind the learners and tutors who are using the systems as well as the need to contextualise your data. There must be a pedagogy underpinning your learning analytics.<\/span><\/p>\n<h3><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sussex.ac.uk\/tel\/workshops\/seminar\/margaret-adamson\"><b>The Social Scholar<\/b><\/a><\/h3>\n<div id=\"attachment_3552\" style=\"width: 159px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.sussex.ac.uk\/tel\/files\/2017\/01\/Capture1.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3552\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-3552 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.sussex.ac.uk\/tel\/files\/2017\/01\/Capture1.jpg\" alt=\"Margaret Adamson\" width=\"149\" height=\"170\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.sussex.ac.uk\/tel\/files\/2017\/01\/Capture1.jpg 149w, https:\/\/blogs.sussex.ac.uk\/tel\/files\/2017\/01\/Capture1-100x114.jpg 100w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 149px) 100vw, 149px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-3552\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Margaret Adamson<\/p><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">During our second seminar Margaret Adamson discussed the use of social media in academia, suggesting that implied judgements exist around the use of the word \u2018social\u2019 with a sense that it is fundamentally non-serious. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">However, Margaret argued\u00a0that social media has a huge part in play in in 21st century scholarship with its ability to collapse spatial and temporal barriers and extend reach, both of personal connections and research impact. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">We were told of the many ways that tools can be used to:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">gather research data, <\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">connect with support networks, <\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">enable social bookmarking, <\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">collaborative writing,<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">and illustrate impact.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Interestingly, Margaret also raised the question of whether we are using new tools to do the same thing or fundamentally changing what we are doing because of the affordances that technology gives us.<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Margaret also advised us on potential issues, most interestingly the idea of what is happening to attribution as we share and reshare, how easy is it to find the original post? <\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Furthermore, it is important to be conscious of the dependence upon <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">connectivity, for example wifi and battery, and\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"line-height: 1.5\">the need to be willing to adapt to an ever-changing range of tools.<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_3539\" style=\"width: 390px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.sussex.ac.uk\/tel\/files\/2016\/01\/Denise-Turner.png\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3539\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-3539 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.sussex.ac.uk\/tel\/files\/2016\/01\/Denise-Turner-e1452599951736.png\" alt=\"Denise Turner\" width=\"380\" height=\"295\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-3539\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Denise Turner<\/p><\/div>\n<h3><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sussex.ac.uk\/profiles\/76805\" target=\"_blank\">&#8216;Home grown&#8217; Denise Turner<\/a><\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>During this seminar we were joined by Sussex\u2019s own Denise Turner, a recipient of a University of Sussex Excellence in Teaching Award in 2015.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Denise talked to\u00a0us about how experimenting with social media had opened up numerous opportunities for her,<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u00a0by extending professional connections, taking\u00a0part in the <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/social-care-network\/social-life-blog\/2014\/jun\/06\/social-work-book-group\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Social Work Book Group<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> and contributing\u00a0to a book, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.co.uk\/search?q=computer+ruler&amp;num=100&amp;espv=2&amp;tbm=isch&amp;tbo=u&amp;source=univ&amp;sa=X&amp;ved=0ahUKEwjXntbfoqTKAhXC2w4KHXeBBVQQsAQINQ&amp;biw=1920&amp;bih=955#imgrc=S9IHljBBJg5bCM%3A\" target=\"_blank\">&#8216;Smart Learning, teaching and learning with smart phones and tables in post compulsory education&#8217;<\/a>\u00a0in collaboration with Andrew Middleton and the Media Enhanced Learning Special Interest Group (<a href=\"http:\/\/melsig.shu.ac.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\">MELSIG<\/a>).\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Denise\u00a0explained that social work has not always engaged with social media, with it being taught as something to be cautious of rather than exploring how it can be used to facilitate service users and enable people to build networks. <\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Denise\u2019s research is aimed at addressing the need for an evidence base around what is actually happening within social media in the field.<\/span><\/p>\n<h3><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sussex.ac.uk\/tel\/workshops\/seminar\/tansy-jessop\"><b>Flipping the technology-pedagogy equation: principles to improve assessment and feedback<\/b><\/a><\/h3>\n<div id=\"attachment_3553\" style=\"width: 161px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3553\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-3553 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.sussex.ac.uk\/tel\/files\/2017\/01\/Capture2.jpg\" alt=\"Tansy Jessop\" width=\"151\" height=\"246\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.sussex.ac.uk\/tel\/files\/2017\/01\/Capture2.jpg 151w, https:\/\/blogs.sussex.ac.uk\/tel\/files\/2017\/01\/Capture2-100x163.jpg 100w, https:\/\/blogs.sussex.ac.uk\/tel\/files\/2017\/01\/Capture2-150x244.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 151px) 100vw, 151px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-3553\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tansy Jessop<\/p><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The final seminar in December\u00a0was delivered by\u00a0Tansy Jessop who outlined two initiatives around assessment and feedback, <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.testa.ac.uk\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">TESTA<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u00a0(Transforming the Experience of Students through Assessment) and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bathspa.ac.uk\/Media\/quality-and-standards\/FASTECH%20Institutional%20Story%20Final%20(1).pdf\" target=\"_blank\">FASTECH<\/a>\u00a0(Feedback and Assessment for Students with Technology). <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">TESTA, an initiative that shifted perspective from the lecturer and their module to the student\u2019s experience of the programme, initially started in four universities but has now expanded to more than 50, having been sustained well after the funding period. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Tansy stressed that during this project, formative assessments were required rather than optional and took the form of public assessments, for example presentations or posters, in order to motivate students.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">FASTECH was concerned with how technology might be embedded into these programmes. The project funded 60 students who became &#8216;FASTECH fellows&#8217; to research in partnership with staff to bring about enhancements around:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">assessment and feedback, <\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">student engagement,<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">module evaluations. <\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Tansy explained how this initiative convinced senior management and the Students\u2019 Union of the value of students in the role of enhancing learning and teaching.<\/span><\/p>\n<h3>Interested in the TEL Seminar Series?<\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">To find out more, visit our <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sussex.ac.uk\/tel\/workshops\/seminar\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">website<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> where you will find slides and video recordings of each seminar available to view. We&#8217;ll be announcing new seminar dates for Spring 2016 shortly.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Happy New Year to all our readers! \u00a0Last autumn saw the start of the 2015\/16 Technology Enhanced Learning seminar series, featuring three engaging sessions from four great speakers: Martin Hawksey (Chief Innovation, Community and Technology Officer for the Association for<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.sussex.ac.uk\/tel\/2016\/01\/13\/learning-analytics-the-social-scholar-and-flipping-assessment-the-sussextel-seminar-series\/\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":115,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4843],"tags":[4927],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sussex.ac.uk\/tel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3538"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sussex.ac.uk\/tel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sussex.ac.uk\/tel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sussex.ac.uk\/tel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/115"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sussex.ac.uk\/tel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3538"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sussex.ac.uk\/tel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3538\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3696,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sussex.ac.uk\/tel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3538\/revisions\/3696"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sussex.ac.uk\/tel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3538"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sussex.ac.uk\/tel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3538"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sussex.ac.uk\/tel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3538"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}