CAN 2019 will be hosted by The Open University

We are excited to announce @OpenUniversity will be hosting next year’s Change Agents’ Network conference #CAN19 @CANagogy Dates and details will be announced soon.

#CAN 18 Resources – Presentations and Blog Posts

We are gradually receiving the presentations from CAN 2018 and they are being added to the Resources page. Along with the resources, there is a Storify and we’ve just received a link to a comprehensive blog post by Brad Forsyth and Jake Forecast, who presented last year at CAN 2017 as students from Epping Forest …

14th UK Learning Analytics Network meeting, University of Gloucestershire, Cheltenham 12 June 2018

Jisc’s next learning analytics network meeting is in Cheltenham at the University of Gloucestershire on 12th June 2018. These popular events comprise a range of presentations and discussion sessions – and an opportunity to network with colleagues involved in learning analytics projects at other institutions. The theme for this meeting is “Beyond Retention”, we will …

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CC: BYE, an update to the last post

In my last post I wrote …I want my work to be seen, used and adapted, but I want it done in a way that ethically aligns with my values. I do not mind if it is used commercially, but I do want to hold people to an ethical standard. Do I want an ethics […]

#CAN18 resources

The Change Agents’ Network conference at the University of Winchester on 19 and 20 April was an opportunity for staff and students to share their experiences in organised sessions as well as many informal ways; the breaks and meals in the warm sunshine encouraged us to sit and talk.  The conference was excellently organised and …

Analytics lab: teaching quality benchmarks

Exciting new Jisc Learning Analytics opportunity At our most recent network event in Edinburgh, Michael Webb and I introduced ‘Learning Analytics Labs’. An experiment to see whether we can use selected learning analytics data to improve mandatory data returns and performance metrics. This is your opportunity to get involved in an initial exploration to improve teaching quality metrics. We want to explore …

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Using Discovery tool data to refine the questions and scoring

Thanks to the aggregate data we are getting from our first pilot users, we have been able to compare the median scores for each of the questions asked, and look at some other stats across the different assessments. We were pleased to see from the first data returns that ‘depth’ and ‘breadth’ questions produce the medians we would expect, …

CAN conference programme and extension of Early Bird rate

HEFCE blog post – Engaging students in pedagogic innovation: learning from small-scale innovation projects

A blog post on the HEFCE site on 9 January looks at the role students can play in the development and uptake of educational innovation and considers the impact on their learning.   This post finds that student engagement is necessarily at the heart of each project in their programme which focusses on pedagogic innovation in …

CAN 2018 @ the University of Winchester – Registration is now open

Registration is now open for the Change Agent Network Conference 2018 – Student-Staff Partnerships in an Age of Change at the University of Winchester (19th-20th April 2018)   Over 60 papers, workshops and symposiums showcasing student engagement, partnership, digital capabilities initiatives and research from across UK higher and further education and skills. Confirmed Keynote Speakers: Tali …