JISC

This project will provide an application (STAR-Trak:NG) to highlight and manage interventions with students who are at risk of dropping out, identified primarily by mining student activity data held in corporate systems. STAR-Trak:NG represents a synthesis and extension of the outputs of two JISC projects: our current STAR-Trak (Student Tracking And Retention) proof-of-concept application, and MCMS (Mining Course Management. System) developed by TVU. Whilst far more sophisticated than STAR-Trak, MCMS is currently tightly bound to TVUs IT architecture, source systems for activity data, business processes and culture, and hence is not yet reusable by other institutions. In summary, our project will:

• Take the best elements of MCMS into Star-Trak as “STAR-Trak:NG” to work with user activity data, business processes, structures and cultures at Leeds Metropolitan
• Provide a stepping-stone, supported by TVU and Coventry Universities, to creating an open source application that can, with future development and support through JISC and OSS-Watch, be shared across the HE and FE sectors

To view the project website: http://leedsmetstartrak.wordpress.com/