The workshop will be interactive and will last 3 hours with breaks included for stretching and coffee refill. Participants will be split into heterogeneous groups for Activity 1 and 2 and the schedule will be organised as follows:
13.00-13.15
Short introduction to evidence cafés (Tina) -15 min
13.15 - 13.30
Introduction to accessibility in analytics (Rebecca) -15 min
13.30-14.00
Ice breaker activity - An introduction to each other - 30 min
Introduce yourself and your background
Have you done any work with learning analytics?
Where are you based?
14.00-14.40
Activity 1: Have a look at the HESA disability Classification (Dimitrios)
(30 min discussion amongst individual groups and 10 min sharing with all groups)
What advise would you write for someone developing an analytics tool and knows some students have disabilities mentioned on HESA. What analytics could we devise that could support people with disabilities? How could analytics help learners and educators?
If we were to create a learning analytics tool to support accessibility, what classifications would we be looking for? What classifications do we need?
14.40-15.00
Coffee/Tea Break -15 min
15.00 – 15.40
Activity 2: Introduction of the discussion object ‘guidelines of how to make online courses more accessible’ (Paco)
(30 min discussion amongst individual groups and 10 min sharing with all groups)
In the context of learning analytics, are there ways of making these guidelines more user friendly? How could these guidelines be changed in order to cover learning analytics?
Discuss the following Guidelines from
Technical guidance indicates the use of accessibility standards (1-4)
Pedagogical guidance includes aspects to consider when designing the educational resources by the educators (5-7)
Training and experience are key values for educators and those teams producing the materials
Personalisation and alternative formats allow learners to choose their learning path
Collaboration encourages universities, platforms and learners to work together
15.40-15.55
Wrap up (15 min)
15.55-16.00
Feedback on the evidence café (5 min)
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During Activity 1 and 2, participants will keep notes on google docs and will be sharing these accross all groups.
The discsussions will be recorded if informed consent is given by participants
The notes that participants will take on google docs will be kept for analysis by the researchers.
Full outcomes of the workshop will be written up and submitted to the Journal of Learning Analytics.
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