The Technology Horizon implications for assessment

Phil MarstonCentre for Academic DevelopmentUniversity of Aberdeen

Heads-up What’s on the horizon

Overview

• Learning Analytics

• Tin Can API

• Open Badges

Key Concept Gartner’s Hype Cycle

Learning Analytics

• Huge amounts of data being generated

• Storage & processing power available exponentially

• Patterns of relationships hidden in that data

• Algorithms being developed

• Dashboards being developed

Learning Analytics

• Huge amounts of data being generated

• Storage & processing power available exponentially

• Patterns of relationships hidden in that data

• Algorithms being developed

• Dashboards being developed

Learning Analytics

• Huge amounts of data being generated

• Storage & processing power available exponentially

• Patterns of relationships hidden in that data

• Algorithms being developed

• Dashboards being developed

Learning Analytics

• Huge amounts of data being generated

• Storage & processing power available exponentially

• Patterns of relationships hidden in that data

• Algorithms being developed

• Dashboards being developed

Learning Analytics

• Huge amounts of data being generated

• Storage & processing power available exponentially

• Patterns of relationships hidden in that data

• Algorithms being developed

• Dashboards being developed

Tin Can API

• SCORM

• Experience

• Subject, verb, object (I did this)

Tin Can API

• SCORM

• Experience

• Subject, verb, object (I did this)

Tin Can API

• SCORM

• Experience

• Subject, verb, object (I did this)

Open Badges

• Digital certificates with embedded metadata

• Will be endorsable

• Providing employers with the information they need

Open Badges

• Digital certificates with embedded metadata

• Will be endorsable

• Providing employers with the information they need

Open Badges

• Digital certificates with embedded metadata

• Will be endorsable

• Providing employers with the information they need

Implications What’s the role of HE?

Any Questions?

Phil MarstonCentre for Academic DevelopmentUniversity of Aberdeen

Resources

• Learning Analytics

• NMC Horizon Reports http://www.nmc.org/horizon-project/horizon-reports

• Purdue http://www.educause.edu/ero/article/signals-using-academic-analytics-promote-student-success

• JISC http://jisc.cetis.ac.uk/topic/learning_analytics

• Tin Can API

• http://tincanapi.com

• Open Badges

• Mozilla http://openbadges.org

• JISC http://www.rsc-scotland.org/eassessment/tag/open-badges/

Image Credits

• Slide 4 Gartner's 2012 Hype Cycle for Emerging Technologies http://www.gartner.com/newsroom/id/2124315

• Slide 6 Aberdeen University ‘Maxwell’ High Performance Computing Facility http://www.abdn.ac.uk/news/details-13807.php

• Slide 7 Map of science derived from clickstream data http://www.plosone.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal.pone.0004803

• Slide 10 SCORM, repositories and competencies - The big picture by Claude Ostyn http://www.ostyn.com/standards/prop/SCORM_competencies_repositories.htm

• Slide 11 Making Sense of Tin Can API by Liz Burrow http://burlix.wordpress.com/2012/06/19/making-sense-of-tincan-api/

• Slide 12 Toyota environmentally conscious driving simulator by Eric Chan. Creative Commons license CC BY http://www.flickr.com/photos/maveric2003/2143217328/

• Slide 13 “Badge Anatomy” by Class Hack. Creative Commons license CC BY-SA http://www.waynebarry.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/Open-Badge-Anatomy.png

• Slide 14 Endorse project logo Creative Commons license CC BY-NC-SA http://ict-endorse.eu

• Slide 15 Digital Resume by Linda Zivnustkova http://www.lindazivnustkova.com/resume.html

• All other images fotolia.com