Discovery and consultancy
Helping higher education institutions implement learning analytics solutions with confidence.
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About discovery and consultancy
Discovery and consultancy is designed to help higher education (HE) institutions navigate their way through the challenges that come with considering a learning analytics solution.
Specialist consultants provide a tailored and detailed analysis of:
- Your institution’s situation and readiness for learning analytics
- Digital infrastructure
- Current use and standard of data, including motivators, drivers and inhibitors to implementation
How it works
Whether you are taking your first steps with learning analytics or already have projects underway, discovery and consultancy will make an instant impact to your organisational development.
It includes a two-day virtual or on-site discovery evaluation designed to help you unlock your institution’s readiness. Our dedicated consultants will meet with your senior representatives to make recommendations on how you can harness your data as efficiently and as cost effectively as possible, as well as providing recommendations on cultural and technical readiness. They will define clear goals and objectives, assess the institution’s technical infrastructure and data sources to develop a tailored learning analytics implementation strategy.
On completion of your evaluation, you will be provided with a comprehensive report summarising how prepared your institution is to implement a learning analytics solution, key discussion points and proposed next steps.
Benefits to you
- Helps you to assess your organisations readiness, navigate complexities and uncover and address concerns
- Offers a tailored solution that meets your institutions needs, saving you time and money on wasted resources
- Helps you to make confident decisions, increasing your institutions chances of success
- Provides technical and ethical guidance to get you started, whether you are piloting or fully implementing learning analytics
- Has the right ethical policies in place to meet recognised industry standards
- Offers advice on stakeholder engagement and communications
- Helps you fine tune your processes, get your data ready, aligned and in the right order before implementation
- Makes sure you get the best possible value from your Jisc learning analytics solution and the results you want
- Support when you need it - our expert consultants have access to the most up-to-date industry intelligence
Case study: How Leeds Trinity University improved student progression and retention
“The discovery days provided a useful structure for our stakeholder engagement and Jisc used the workshop discussions to inform an independent action plan for us to consider at the start of our learning analytics project planning.”
Rachel Glynn, Leeds Trinity University
Learning analytics code of practice
The starting point for anyone new to learning analytics should be to follow the code of practice for learning analytics and its eight ‘data ethics’ themes for successful deployment:
- Responsibility
- Transparency and consent
- Privacy
- Validity
- Access
- Enabling positive interventions
- Minimising adverse impacts
- Stewardship of data
Learn how to successfully plan and implement your learning analytics solution, ensuring you’ve got the legal, ethical and logistical issues sorted. Download the code of practice for learning analytics (pdf).
Get started
Register your interest or contact the team to arrange your initial consultation.
Resources
- Senior managers' guide to learning analytics
Find out how to assess your institutional readiness for learning analytics, build a business case, assess its impact and more with this in-depth guide - Expert LA community group
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Visit our blog for the latest stories, news and updates - Code of practice for learning analytics
A vital resource to help you plan and implement a learning analytics solution and ensure you’ve got everything covered
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