A Review of My “Access to UCAS University Course Data” PitchTSO OpenUP 2011 Tony Hirst

Department of Communication and Systems

The Open University

A point of clarification….

“Construction site scaffolding”, Magnus Franklin (magnusfranklin)

Meshes with data.UNI.ac.uk course data

Framework for consumer facing course and university comparison sites

B2B – Address Data Exchange

UCAS

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B2B – Address Data Exchange

UCAS

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B2B – Address Data Exchange

UCAS

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B2B – Address Data Exchange

UCAS

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Complements recent JISC initiatives

“Meerkat”, William Warby (wwarby)

B2C

University funding (March 2010) (data)University Pay (March 2010) (data)University Guide (student survey) (2009/10) (data)

University drop-out rates (June 2009) (data)University building repair (February 2010) (data)

“Graduation Cake Guy”, David Goehring (carbonNYC)

courseExpectations.comDATA POWERED

Graph structured website for lap-based research, designed for 11-13” screens (laptops, tablets)

Admissions DataEmployment Data

RAE DataQAA reports

SCONUL reports

(et al. from Guardian datastore)

Course data from UCAS*Student Survey Data

“Ingredients”, Robin (fotoosvanrobin)

Course Related Content

- Reading lists- Content recommendations

MarketingPaid Ads (Facebook, trad media

websites, The Student Room, NUS)

Humourous Youtube video

6th form/college evangelists

JISC AnnouncementsJISC Project meetings/

funding callsDevCSI and #dev8d

The competition…?

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Just opening up the data would be a start…