Collecting data on students: is it useful to know which books they've read? Data analytics helps universities identify students who need more support.
Photograph: the Guardian Monitoring progress through the analysis of grades has long been the norm, but how useful is it to know which books students have read, how often they come to class and when they contact their tutors? According to the 2014 Horizon report – a study on emerging technologies for teaching and learning – data collected on the online activity of students can be used effectively to identify top resources, improve the student experience and underpin success at university.
Teacher and student perceptions of the development of learner autonomy; a case study in the biological sciences - Studies in Higher Education - Biology teachers in a UK university expressed a majority view that student learning autonomy increases with progression through university.
A minority suggested that pre-existing diversity in learning autonomy was more important and that individuals not cohorts differ in their learning autonomy. They suggested that personal experience prior to university and age were important and that mature students are more autonomous than 18–20 year olds. The Science of Smart: Forget About Learning Styles, Here's Something Better. “I didn’t even think about whether I’d be the first African-American woman in space… I just wanted to go into space.”
Science: Mae was the first African-American female astronaut; she’s also an engineer, a medical doctor and an educator; so what have you been doing with your time? REAP > Contacts > David Nicol. Professor David Nicol David Nicol is Emeritus Professor of Higher Education at the University of Strathclyde.
He was previously Deputy Director of the Centre for Academic Practice and Learning Enhancement (CAPLE) and Director of REAP, the Re-Engineering Assessment Practices project (www.reap.ac.uk), a £1m project exploring how new technologies might support improved assessment practices across three Scottish Universities. Over the period 2007-2010 David was also employed by the QAA Scotland as a facilitator for Assessment and Feedback developments across the Scottish HE sector. He also led a project at Strathclyde on PEER processes in learning (www.reap.ac.uk/peer.aspx) funded by the Joint Inforrmation Systems Committee (UK) and he jointly led the Principles in Patterns Project (www.principlesinpatterns.ac.uk ) which also received funding from JISC.
Current Positions Although retired from the University of Strathclyde, David still holds an Emeritus Professor role there. Nicol. Computer skills checklist for every (psychology) student. I decided to put together a computer skills checklist.
A lot of the things on this list are not specific to psychology and should be part of the training of every student. Grit: The Other 21st Century Skills. Due to the interest of my post The Other 21st Skills, I decided to discuss individually each of the skills or dispositions I proposed that are in addition to the seven survival skills as identified by Tony Wagner.
This post focuses on Grit: Here is Angela Duckwoth’s TED Talk about Grit that provides an overview about the topic. JISC Elevator. Moodle LIVE is an extension of the current Moodle VLE widely used by universities across the country.
It allows live streaming of both the lecture and the power point separately and makes these accessible from any Computer, Tablet or Smartphone. It also incorporates a chat system that allows students to communicate in real time with the lecturer from any web-enabled device. College students’ mental health is a growing concern, survey finds. Ninety-five percent of college counseling center directors surveyed said the number of students with significant psychological problems is a growing concern in their center or on campus, according to the latest Association for University and College Counseling Center Directors survey of counseling center directors.
Seventy percent of directors believe that the number of students with severe psychological problems on their campus has increased in the past year. The survey also found that: Anxiety is the top presenting concern among college students (41.6 percent), followed by depression (36.4 percent) and relationship problems (35.8 percent). On average, 24.5 percent of clients were taking psychotropic medications. Student Money Survey 2013 – Results - Save the Student. Towards the end of each academic year we stop talking and really listen to find out how current university students feel about their financial situation.
For our National Student Money Survey 2014, 2,820 students shared their experiences and opinions with us (admittedly we did lure them in with free Nando’s). This visual report documents our key findings. JISC Elevator. By Connor Atherton About this idea Progress is an open-source software package that any educational institution can use to allow their students to forecast the marks they need to achieve certain grades as well as visualise their current progress throughout their course.
Progress gives power back to the student to reflect on their own learning. No more need for calculating marks on sheets of paper and in spreadsheets, progress is a fun and visually stimulating way for students to discover exactly what marks they need to get certain grades based on past marks they already have. This process can either be automated or the student can fine-tune their marks for future work depending on what mark they feel they will get. JISC Elevator.