March 2014 EUNIS BI Conference Day 2 Session 1

It’s been a great event so far. Let’s start with a summary slide of the BI capability achieved at Turin – something for us all to aspire to….

Turin

I’m back for the start of day 2 where we’re hearing about analytics and predictive analysis.
A quick update on yesterday. I’ve agreed to get more involved with the EUNIS BI Taskforce. It seems we share a mutual aim of increasing maturity of BI capability across Higher Education Institutions. I’m now in touch with Elsa Cardoso to see what opportunities we can identify to collaborate.

I’m also in touch with Bodo Rieger regarding that large scale mature Cognos implementation he described yesterday and to explore the overlaps between our respective national data collections HESA in the UK and HIS in Hannover. Here’s a great summary of the national data collection system of HESA in the UK.

So on with analytics. Or specifically learning analytics (of which there is quite a bit of information on this blog).

Not surprisingly the Educause definitions were given an airing

educausedefs

and of course one cannot hear of learning analytics without mention of the Purdue University Course Signals system and John Campbell.

While Check My Activity from the University of Baltimore Maryland is a new one to me.

Here’s a shot of a smart phone app from University of Kentucky.

Kentucky

This reminds me of some of the work we had submitted to the Jisc elevator last time we ran the Student Innovator initiative. It’s just opened this year. It’s a great initiative tapping into the power of using students as innovators applied to enhancing the student experience through technology and linked to entrepreneurship as key graduate attribute.

There’s a lot of work from Educause available via their Analytics papers. I’m talking to Susan Grajek, Vice President for Data and Analytics later this month about the BI initiative and Malcolm Brown, Director of the Educause Learning Initiative in April.

Back to EUNIS and something that strikes me is the lack of concern on privacy issues.

Another key contact I’ve made here is Ora Fish. Ora gave yesterdays opening key note which is covered in this blog previously. She’s expressed an interest in the Jisc / HESA project. We’re talking about Educause Conference 2015 (of which I’m fortunate to have been invited onto the organising committee) and whether there should be opportunities to air some of the BI for HE issues there.

Exciting stuff…..!

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